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Trackers. Why do they get in

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Name: brucerac
Date: May 30, 2005 at 06:57:41 Pacific
Subject: Trackers. Why do they get in
OS: me
CPU/Ram: pen mmx
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I have several spyware on here such as Ad aware, spyblaster,spybot and firewall Zonealarm. Each day I do scans and each day Ad aware (the latest version) finds two trackers usually the same spy. These are anyuser@bravenet.com and anyuser@versiontracker.com.. Can anyone say why, not one of the spy stuff you can install, stops these trackers getting in? If I am at my PC I can tell when a tracker has just downloaded itself, the clock goes a couple of minutes slow. I then do an Ad aware scan, get rid of the tracker then restart the pc and the time is back to normal


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Response Number 1
Name: Abnormal
Date: May 30, 2005 at 17:58:28 Pacific
Subject: Trackers. Why do they get in
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Your answer here;

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/cookies.htm

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm


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Response Number 2
Name: brucerac
Date: May 31, 2005 at 22:11:42 Pacific
Subject: Trackers. Why do they get in
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Abnormal.That was brilliant advice. Thanks, I went to the site and have taken a lot of there advice and carried it out. This pc is much quicker not but I'm still not sure if trackers will still get in.


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Response Number 3
Name: Abnormal
Date: June 2, 2005 at 15:55:36 Pacific
Subject: Trackers. Why do they get in
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Thanks for posting back, some more info
about cookies.

The Unofficial Cookie Faq
Version 2.6
Contributed to Cookie Central by David Whalen

and another form of protection I Myself use.

IE-SPYAD: Restricted Sites List for Internet Explorer

IE-Spyad Tutorial



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Response Number 4
Name: Abnormal
Date: June 2, 2005 at 22:02:57 Pacific
Subject: Trackers. Why do they get in
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You may want this too!

http://www.winpatrol.com/


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Response Number 5
Name: brucerac
Date: June 4, 2005 at 10:01:57 Pacific
Subject: Trackers. Why do they get in
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Thanks..I've not had much time this week but I shall be looking up the links you have kindly suggested.


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