C: in cookies to delete

Yes, It was "To Delete" because its presence was detected.

When moved "To Keep" the cookie remained and moving back "To delete" its presence was revalidated.

I deduce that CCleaner does not bother to confirm that "cookies to keep" exist,

it assumes that they existed when first chosen "to Keep" and they should still be present.

N..B. I use Portable CCleaner with CCleaner.ini

If you use Installed CCleaner with registry settings "your mileage may vary" :)

A recent glitch I think, cos I remember being able to drag cookies to Delete, then changing my mind and dragging them back to Keep.

Your memory is much better than mine, but I feel you may be right.

Noebro, back on topic, in IE\Tools\Internet Options\General\Browsing history\Settings\View files, do you see a cookie similar to this?

cookie:noebro@c:

Thank you Alan_B, I did as you said and below is a txt of the analysis. Looks harmless, can anyone else opine?

ANALYSIS COMPLETE - (0.724 secs)

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56 bytes to be removed. (Approximate size)

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Details of files to be deleted (Note: No files have been deleted yet)

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Internet Explorer - Cookies 1 KB 1 files

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C:\Documents and Settings\Noel Brooks\UserData\FMKRK619\oXMLStoreUnit[1].xml 1 KB

kroozer - I don't see a cookie with my name @c: But what do you make of the analysis that it is an xml cookie?

You have scads of .xml files on your computer, it's a common markup language.

If denied access to Docs and Settings you should not mess with the item cos it's protected, so just leave it alone. Be safe, drag it back to the Keep column for now.

Thank you kroozer, it's back in the keepers. Any idea how it got here?

Any idea how it got here?

. . . still pondering this. Maybe others v3GGt.png will investigate and provide insight.

noebro, if you are willing make a copy of that file, open the copy in wordpad, or better yet notepad++, and paste the content in our private message, I can look at it and investigate some.

#boredatwork

EDIT: while I'm still not sure if it is Malware related or not, it seems to be related to Windows Update of some sort, but comes up a lot on people hijakthis logs early in the life of Windows XP. I do notice that the malware remover "combofix" seems to remove the file (Example Source: http://forums.pcpits...e/#entry1522179 )

I'm still worried that it shows in ccleaner, I don't have that file, but I do have it's sister file oWindowsUpdate[1].xml ) and that does not show up in ccleaner.

Just to make sure, are you running CCleanerenhanced or any Winapp2 entries? Can go into ccleaner, set it to save settings in INI file and attached the ini file (it's in the ccleaner folder) to the thread?