Remo

In addition to Bitdefender Emsisoft and ESET-NOD32 are flagging it on Virus Total. Bundled software that the user is given the option to decline does not normally trigger this kind of warning. Something else has to be going on. Has Piriform checked and confirmed the current version hasn't been compromised?

And I just changed that setting in Opera (Preferences/Advanced/Storage/Use Application Cache) to NO, NEVER, NOT AT ALL, EVER. (ok, the box actually just says "No"). I think I'll be looking into Sandboxie.

Found it! In the Opera folder "C:\Users\Remo\AppData\Local\Opera\Opera\pstorage" there's a file named "psindex.dat". When I opened it in notepad there is the list of problem cookies. Opera refers to this as Persistent Storage, not a cookie. For my money, it's functionally the same. So now I'm going to close Opera and delete that file. If that does the trick I'll add it to CC. I'll post the results back here. Edit: And that took care of it. Another of life's little mysteries solved Thanks for the help.

Avast and Panda Cloud (I know, I shouldn't be running two different ones at the same time but so far there haven't been any conflicts). So what would be the effect in Opera of the flagging of public-trust.com? It's letting these cookies be set. I just can't remove them.

NP, I do tech support on Reddit from time to time and understand, you never know the knowledge level of the other person. Best to assume none until proven otherwise I have another piece to the puzzle. It's definitely Opera that's setting these cookies. The list has grown since the original post. It now includes two sites I went to earlier this evening in Opera. Thinking maybe the files were still locked by the system, even though Opera was shutdown, I rebooted and ran CC, no change. I then booted into Safemode, ran CC, no change. I'm going to go through every Opera file/folder and see if I can find them. I'm also going to post this on Opera's forum and see if anyone there has insight.

Thanks for the reply. I run with hidden and operating files shown as a matter of course. It's one of the first things I do when I sit down at a machine to troubleshoot. I've browsed through both AppData (Roaming, Local Low and Local) and ProgramData without being able to identify where these cookies are. Of course I couldn't check every single entry but I looked at all the likely culprits. I don't have any exclusions set in CC and right clicking the cookies in the list of "cookies to delete" just gives the option to keep it or run the Intelligent scan. It doesn't tell you where it's at. When you run Analyze yes, you can right click and see the cookies listed, including their paths, that are to be deleted. Since it's not deleting these problem ones though they aren't included in that list. I'm the guy that everyone else comes to when their PC's are having problems. I've been troubleshooting machines for years but this has me stumped. I've also run other cleaners (Glary's and Slim Cleaner) and these cookies still persist. It's irritating as hell and has become a mission

I have a dozen or so cookies that show up in Ccleaner's list of cookies, in the "Cookies to delete" column, that it will not delete. - I've cleaned cookies out of Chrome using Chrome's cleaner - In Opera (default browser) I've deleted all the cookies - I've gone to Control Panel/Internet options and deleted browsing history (did not check "Preserve Favorites") - I've checked all the appropriate boxes on the "Cleaner" tab, for both Windows and Applications - I've run it after shutting down browsers (verified in task manager) - I ran "Flashcookiecleaner" and it showed no flash cookies Nothing affects these cookies. You would think if it could see them it would delete them. There doesn't seem to be a way to have it show me the path to these cookies either so I could delete them manually. A few show HTTPS, i.e. "HTTPS://secure.shared.live.com" others just list the url, "wheels.blogs.nytimes.com" for instance. Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit CCleaner V 4.02.4115 (64 Bit) Opera 12.15 build 1748 Chrome 27.0.1453.116