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Ok..so I did use ccleaner's registry backup of my erasure of the Invalid Firewall Rules. And with 3 different tests of exactly what I was doing that led to the difference in browser behavior i mentioned above, well, I'm now back to how it behaved before. My test did include a couple very long ones...ahh..was watching life of brian....couldn't stop laughing. again, that test get's the same results too. No longer get strange IE things to delete. So, one of those rules wasn't invalid after all. lol, those names of those rules are so obscure I will never understand them I figure. But I'm happy to know the Win 7 firewall does do some work. Nothing better than seeing it with one's own eyes. Anyway, seems mystery solved. And again, ain't trying to wave a red flag here. I consider CCleaner a great tool. And i am entirely aware that messing with all those registry entries is a tricky business. I'm glad cc has the back up option and I'm glad I use it.

Thanks for the replies. Regarding what I was talking about, I went ahead and tried it again.. I ran ccleaner, then started FF and when to YouTube, watched a few minutes of something, then quit FF and fired up ccleaner. This time IE didn't have any cookies but it did have some history to delete. I do know that IE is used by various MS things and I occasionally get things to delete from IE...but this behavior is different than it used to be for me. Yesterday when it had YouTube cookies in IE was very strange and I've never seen that happen before (unless I was using IE) and I do pay attention to what's going on with this machine. Something changed, don't know what. Recent changes I've made is updating ccleaner and running it's registry cleaner with the new Invalid Firewall rule. And I recently moved to the latest FF4, was using the beta of that prior. I've had IE9 on this machine for quite awhile so that wasn't a change. Oh..there was a MS out of cycle update last week for me. lol...man...computers... I think I'll try putting the deleted invalid rules back and see if that changes things.

Yes, you are correct. My concern came from why did IE9 have cookies when I didn't run it any time prior to my last cleaning. And the cookies that came up were regular cookies not LSO's. it's the adobe cookies that make me use ccleaner often.. for some reason my FF add on doesn't always get em.

Hello...long time fan of CCleaner. A great tool. I'm curious about this behavior of IE9. I'll tell my story. I use FF pretty much always. I do have IE9 installed on my win 7 machine. So, today I was watching a few videos on YouTube. Using FF, and with no time in the recent past had I used IE and most certainly ran cc tween online sessions anyway. And as I often do I ran CCleaner, current version, after I was done to clear out all the cookies and flash files my add on's forget to get rid of. well...surprisingly I had 2 cookies from YouTube that were said to be in IE's folder. I have no idea how that could be. I did not fire up IE, rarely do. Wonder if anyone else out there noticed things like this...and maybe someone has a good idea on why that would happen. I'm simply curious and not waving a red flag. I find it an interesting behavior on my software's part. One change I made was updating CCleaner today. And it now includes Removal of Incorrect Firewall rules. I'm wondering if that might have been the change. Does IE get talked to by someone more easily now? Beats me. With my win 7 machine I just use the built in firewall. It seems to work and is customizable.