Re: CWSchredder reverting cookie management

From: PA Bear (PABearMVP_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:30:57 -0500

Do you also have Spybot installed, Jan? 

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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
Jan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I contacted in parallel the 'Intermute technical support' about this
> issue. According to their answer, it looks like normal behaviour for
> CWShredder:
>
> "Unfortunatly part of CW Shredders ability is to reset the settings, so
> therefore you would need to change them back after         doing a check
> using that utility."
>
> I experienced the same consistent behaviour on 2 different computers using
> each a different version of CWShredder.
> Both have winxp with all latest critical patches unstalled, with ZoneAlarm
> as firewall, have no viruses (according to avast, panda online and trend
> micro online), both have latest and updated AdAware SE personal and Spybot
> 1.3 (tracking cookies but they say no spyware) and HijackThis (as far as I
> can see, no suspect things in the logs). Checks and scans are carried out
> on a regular basis, the only thing that comes out of it are tracking
> cookies. No persistent slow-downs in IE, hangs, crashes, or 100% CPU
> during surfing.
>
> Machine 1 has XP home and I downloaded CWShredder v2.0 as of yesterday
> (21-11) - first install ever on that machine. Machine 2 has XP Pro and an
> older version CWShredder 1.59.1. Nevertheless, same behaviour on both
> machines. Checked out that changes do not occur at boot.
>
> Before running CWShredder, I check the cookie settings (control panel ->
> internet options -> privacy tab -> settings: advanced): radio button
> 'Override automatic cookie handling' is checked, first-party cookies 'ask'
> and third-party cookies 'block'. OK
> Without any program running (including browsers), I start CWShredder and
> click the 'fix' button. Nothing detected on both machines.
> But when I check back in 'internet options' right after CWShredder, the
> 'override automatic cookie handling' is unchecked and although options are
> greyed out, they seem to be set to allow first and third party cookies...
> (tried it out several times, always same result)
> The changes don't take place if you click 'scan only'...
>
> I can live with the fact that CWShredder does do that, but I would have
> expe cted some more info from merijn - intermute, or anywhere else on the
> web, in newsgroups, but couldn't find any indication.
> Thanks for all replies!
> Jan