Flash Cookies

[jwall]

I recently had an infection which I cleared up and one of the tools I used was SAS which detected a lot of cookies: Adobe Flash Tracking Cookies. How can I make ccleaner detect these? Adobe Flash does not show up in

applications.

Thank you.

[ident]

I recently had an infection which I cleared up and one of the tools I used was SAS which detected a lot of cookies: Adobe Flash Tracking Cookies. How can I make ccleaner detect these? Adobe Flash does not show up in

applications.

Thank you.

 

Stop worrying about cookies as infections, they aint. It's under multimedia .

[SaintSatinStain]

I recently had an infection which I cleared up and one of the tools I used was SAS which detected a lot of cookies: Adobe Flash Tracking Cookies. How can I make ccleaner detect these? Adobe Flash does not show up in

applications.

Thank you.

 

If you use a Gecko browser, SeaMonkey or Firefox, then the BetterPrivacy extension will control and delete Flash cookies. In K-Meleon the ClearFlash extension does much the same. The old Gecko browser Flock has the BetterPrivacy extension too. Read here about Flash cookies and here and here also.

[Nergal]

What OS are you using

 

as stated above Flash cookies are cleaned via applications>multimedia>adobe flash player

 

so long as they are not on your cookies to save setting ccleaner (latest version) should clean them fine

[jwall]

Ok, thanks for the info

I have Win XP SP3

[jwall]

What OS are you using

 

as stated above Flash cookies are cleaned via applications>multimedia>adobe flash player

 

so long as they are not on your cookies to save setting ccleaner (latest version) should clean them fine

 

Adobe flash does not show up in ccleaner though. Applications/multimedia/adobe flash.

I use Opera 10.6 and win xp sp3

[Nergal]

please try this

start regedit.exe (start menu run regedit.exe)

press F3 key

paste this string into the search box

{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}

and press find

let us know if it doesn't find the string (this is the thing that CCleaner is looking for for flash to appear in the list)

 

if it doesn't find it

press ctrl+f

and paste

Shockwave Flash Object

into the find box

press find

when it finds it press shift+tab, this should highlight an entry in the left hand pane

right click on the highlighted item in the left pane and choose "copy key name"

paste the copied item into a reply in this thread

press f3 to find the next occurance

copy and paste the key names as above until regedit can't find anymore items

[jwall]

please try this

start regedit.exe (start menu run regedit.exe)

press F3 key

paste this string into the search box

{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}

and press find

let us know if it doesn't find the string (this is the thing that CCleaner is looking for for flash to appear in the list)

 

if it doesn't find it

press ctrl+f

and paste

Shockwave Flash Object

into the find box

press find

when it finds it press shift+tab, this should highlight an entry in the left hand pane

right click on the highlighted item in the left pane and choose "copy key name"

paste the copied item into a reply in this thread

press f3 to find the next occurance

copy and paste the key names as above until regedit can't find anymore items

 

 

It found three occurances-'value not set'.

 

 

Also note, I have two computers and flash doesn't show up on either one in ccleaner/

[DennisD]

I don't think it shows up in CCleaner unless you also have the Adobe "Internet Explorer" plugin installed, which is different to the "Firefox/Safari/Opera" version.

 

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/

 

I'm an Opera user as well, but I installed both versions.

 

 

EDIT: Just found this, which may be an alternative to installing the IE plug in.

 

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=28666&view=findpost&p=171803

[jwall]

DennisD,

Thanks, that probably is it. After cleaning up from my infection, it was recommended to get the latest flash, which I did through Opera. The other user on these computers uses IE, but it hasn't asked for the plugin yet so it has not been installed.

I was just alarmed at all the tracking flash cookies SAS found and want an easy way to keep them off even if they are probably benign.

 

Thanks.