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  1. Thank you again, Dennis. I feel that I am wasting too much of your generously offered time. I agree with you that it is better to let CCleaner get rid of those cookies than to rely on Opera to do so. I believe that this is now what is happening. Yesterday, when in Opera I did: Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Storage -> "Webpages Using Persistent Storage" -> "Clear All", I was just groping. But apparently, by doing so, that appears to have "enabled" CCleaner to do its job, and my original issue that started all of this has gone away. (For refreshment, that is/was, from post #1, "Immediately after running CCleaner, a check of Options => Cookies shows half a dozen cookies in the left panel, "Cookies to Delete".) I have now tested it five times, sequentially opening all of those webpages in Opera, checking in CCleaner that all of those cookies have been newly ingested, closing Opera, running CCleaner, and then checking Options -> Cookies in CCleaner -- and they are all gone. And then repeat it all over again. So for me, my original issue appears to be fixed. (Not from any brilliance on my part, but by accident.) Now, given this new insight, it is not clear to me whether it helps to clarify your question. Or, whether my intuition is correct that you are analyzing the problem at a deeper level than I was/am(?) For me, given all the other, greater vulnerabilities that my system is subject to, I am content to let this one rest; but if you feel that it needs more examination I am willing. Alan_B, you are way over my head -- I wouldn't know how to do it if I tried!
  2. Thank you, Hazel and Dennis, After considerable bumbling about I think I have, (at least temporarily(?)), fixed the problem. A Google search on "pstorage" turns up a bunch of references. This one in particular: http://my.opera.com/...c.dml?id=689782, (mostly over my head), provides a lot of on-topic discussion. CCleaner is even mentioned a couple of times. Maybe you might find it interesting or even useful. Anyway, out of all this I tried the following in Opera: Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Storage -> "Webpages Using Persistent Storage" -> "Clear All". Then, after closing Opera, I ran CCleaner. This time all of those cookies were gone. HOWEVER, I don't know yet if, or how soon they will reappear. I will watch this for a while, and then try doing what you have done -- literally deleting the pstorage folder. But I want to do a full system backup before I attempt that. I will keep you posted. If you have any thoughts on the above link, I would be interested to hear them. I just noticed that that link got compacted. Here it is without the leadin: my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=689782 Thank you very much, ~~z
  3. Thank you for your sleuthing and patience, Dennis. I'll try to answer your questions in the same order: My Opera is configured to "accept cookies only from the sites that I visit." My version of Opera is 12.02 My version of CCleaner is 3.22.1800 Yes, indeed there is a psindex.dat file in "C:\Documents and Settings\ <username> \Local Settings\Application Data\Opera\Opera\pstorage" And it is loaded! I am attaching it for your inspection. I see many of those persistent cookies referenced in there. (Maybe they are ALL in there -- I didn't scrub them closely.) *As an aside, I did a Windows Explorer search on Documents&Settings to locate psindex.dat, and it couldn't find it...(!!??) **Note that the psindex.dat file that I am attaching is from Opera while it is running. I couldn't close it first because I am writing this post in Opera... Thank you again for your assistance. ***Well, I just received a message in pink color saying "Error You aren't permitted to upload this kind of file" Sorry. Please tell me what you would like me to do next
  4. Thank you for your reply, hazelnut. I just ran CCleaner with Opera and I.E. closed, and still get that same list of cookies afterwards. Then, when I run CCleaner "analyze", it shows nothing to be cleaned. Per your direction, I highlighted each of the cookies and all of them but one showed the Opera logo. That one exception, "effectivemeasure.net", is an Adobe Flash cookie. Does this help? Thank you very much, ~~z
  5. Thank you for your reply, Dennis, I think that I may be getting in over my head here, but this is what I found: 1) There is no "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Opera\Opera\pstorage\" 2) There is a "C:\Documents and Settings\ <username> \Local Settings\Application Data\Opera\Opera\pstorage" I am including a screenshot so that you can see the latter and its contents. As you can see, there is one subfolder (00), and 6 sub-subfolders, (0E,0F,01,1B,1C,14). Each of these contains a 1KB file with 8 zeroes; and 01 also contains a 1KB file with 00000001. As far as I am aware, there is nothing different with my Opera or CCleaner; I haven't done anything to either of them. Thank you for your help, ~~z
  6. Thank you for your reply, hazelnut. As far as I can see, there is no logo. I am attaching a screenshot. I am running XP. A clue is starting to emerge: I have Opera running with several windows open at the time I run CCleaner. (I am not accessing new windows, they have already finished loading.) However some of those persistent cookies are consistent with some of Opera's open windows. Can/should that be? If so, then it would appear that webpages have "re-seed" cookies that run all the time. No wonder my machine is slowing down! What do you think? But, OTOH, some of those cookies I don't recognize at all...(?) How do they get there? Thank you, ~~z
  7. Thank you for your reply, kroozer. I just now checked. But, there is no Flash logo, and Adobe Flash Player is already checked. There is apparently something else at play here. Any more thoughts? Thank you, ~~z
  8. I realize that on the surface, this is a dumb question -- just delete them all, and then when your websites don't work you will know that you made a mistake. My question then: Is there a practical, systematic way to determine, other than by trial-and-error, which cookies need to be retained? Thank you very much for any suggestions, ~~zapatero
  9. Immediately after running CCleaner, a check of Options => Cookies shows half a dozen cookies in the left panel, "Cookies to Delete". Have these not been removed, or have they been removed and then regenerated themselves? Can someone please explain, and can they be removed, really? Thank you very much, ~~zapatero
  10. Apologies -- I know that this question has been answered before, but I am unable to locate the post. Thank you very much for your assistance.
  11. Thank you, Andavari, Sorry for the misunderstanding. My understanding, (please correct me if I am wrong), is that both System Restore and ERUNT perform nominally the same function; however ERUNT is (supposedly, from the reviews), more comprehensive. (Again, please correct me if wrong.) Thus, I am having trouble understanding why ERUNT should not be favored. But further, from my perspective, your italics, ("when it works correctly") presents the real concern. I have just cited two cases where it didn't work correctly -- however, suppose that I had innocently presumed that it did work correctly, and then later suffered the consequences(?) From my perspective, I just don't have the expertise to make the a priori judgement whether it worked correctly. I guess, bottom line, my thought is that I cannot envision a case where I would prefer to use System Restore over ERUNT. But I will be happy to listen. Secondly, wow! I've never heard of such a thing as the HOSTS file. But your link, and others drilled down, certainly appear to be what I need. The list of parasites included in the MVPS file is nothing less than shocking! I'm forced to ask myself, "just who's computer am I using, anyway?" Well, anyway, I fully intend to pursue this. Before I start modifying things though, I would appreciate any insights as to traps and pitfalls that I might expect to step into. Thank you very much,
  12. Belatedly, I have a couple of thoughts and questions. (I'm the OP). Based upon all of your endorsements, links and leads, I have installed CCleaner and Erunt. First, in response to your endorsements for Erunt, I would like to note that I have just acquired first-hand experience that, as you have indicated, Windows System Restore is not reliable. Unfortunately, I did not yet have Erunt running, and out of necessity did a System Restore to correct a bad installation. It didn't. So then I did an Undo(?) of the Restore, hoping that the system would at least be returned to its former faulty state. Well, in that process it also lost several of my earlier programs! Fortunately, I did have a clone backup of my disk, so all was preserved; but I now have Erunt up and running. I do hope that if/when I ever need it, that I will be able to make it work satisfactorily. But confirming your experiences, I am now done with Windows System Restore! Second, re CCleaner, I remember from long ago how well it worked. But I am amazed now just how much stuff it does clean out. I am really puzzled by something though. The main reason that I became re-interested in CCleaner was to get rid of cookies. I have an amazing count of some 500 cookies in there! After separating out the "cookies to keep", and running CC, I find that the next time I run my browser, practically all of them reappear. Does this seem credible? As a possible answer, I am running Opera, with 6 - 10 windows open that I always look at, so I just leave them open. Each window has half a dozen or more tabs active. So that amounts to 50 - 80 URLs that are accessed when I open Opera. But does it seem reasonable that I would get hit with 500 cookies from a single access of 80 URLs? What are your thoughts? Thank you very much
  13. Thank you ALL, you have given me lots of very welcome insights -- which I am continuing to digest. I have my Thai ISP pursuing those inaccessible websites. I will report back if there is anything of interest. Thank you again!!!
  14. Thank you for all of your replies folks! Andavari: strangely, I was able to access all four of your mirror sites, but I still cannot access the original! I did, though, find the reviews of ERUNT at those sites to be very positive and informative. There was a lot of agreement with you that Windows System Restore is not its equal. Nergal: I am not aware of any ad-blocking or site blocking software, by name; but I am running McAfee and Windows Defender. Further, I am in Thailand, that I have heard controls some explicit access, but ERUNT appears pretty clean to me. Coincidentally, I am having the same problem now with another site that I had been using for years (for buying vitamins!, no less). Having never experienced this sort of thing before, who would you recommend that I talk to? Keatah: That's a pretty strong endorsement for using ERINT, How are you feeling about CCleaner now? Is CCleaner, with pre-ERUNT backup, a pretty safe bet?
  15. Thank you for your reply, Andavari. Could you please check your ERUNT link for me? I have tried it many times and only receive error messages.
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