Malwarebytes Question

I've not seen that page before. I certainly sums it up. I have been running Pro for several months along with N360. They seem to go well together.

yowanvista said:

MrPenguin said:

BrightBlessings said:

A friend of mine ran the free version of malwarebytes and it showed they have 300+ infections. Anyway they told me that malwarebytes said it would only clean 100 of them or to buy the full version to clean them all. Does anyone know if would right? as I am interested
Thank you
Odin

these "infections" are tracking cookies, i bet like 99% of the incetions were tracking cookies. Tracking cookies are cookies of course, but they have a different function than normal cookies. The joke is: Often they are not even there to spy u, nope, they come from websites yep^^ For many people websites are money making machines, not only shops, u wouldnt believe what a streaming site makeing money through millions of clicks EVERY day through advertizing. However the owners or masters of the website often use that cookies, to see what u done (on the web only, no further information will be revealed), but: where u came from,what u type or typed in, how long u stay on the website, which products or videosu watched etc. This is used to actually keep the business rolling, with that information and statistics from it, they can easily change theyre website to what the public prefers the most, of course money making is behind this.

So in these terms, ecxcept for rare entrys like alexa, which every windows user has, actually a spy registry entry from windows, try to delete it, undeletable, it automatically replaces, windows uses this one to spy u out actually. The only tool i ever saw detecting and REMOVING it was spybot, thats why it says use at ur own risk^^ This thing, depsite the origin, can remove any entry, how i dont even know today to be honest^^ But spybot can do that, a genius tool if u ask me.

But 99% of all tracking cookies are harmless, simple to get ur surfing behaviour on the owners website, thats all. Theres absolutely no need to worry about that^^ Spyware ud need to worry about, cause those was a manually set up tool to get direct information from u. Ad aware to, it to also scannes tracking cookies.

Well if u want to get rid of them, the only way i did was: Switching to comodo as firewall^^ No joke, this thing is so tough obviously, it would even block any tracking cookies for me, rly from a firewall for windows i cant ask more^^

Malwarebtes doesn't detect or remove any tracking cookies :)

But most of the "infections" Norton boasts about clearing are. It's only in the latest version that it stopped flagging these as amber threats.

MrPenguin said:

yowanvista said:

MrPenguin said:

these "infections" are tracking cookies, i bet like 99% of the incetions were tracking cookies. Tracking cookies are cookies of course, but they have a different function than normal cookies. The joke is: Often they are not even there to spy u, nope, they come from websites yep^^ For many people websites are money making machines, not only shops, u wouldnt believe what a streaming site makeing money through millions of clicks EVERY day through advertizing. However the owners or masters of the website often use that cookies, to see what u done (on the web only, no further information will be revealed), but: where u came from,what u type or typed in, how long u stay on the website, which products or videosu watched etc. This is used to actually keep the business rolling, with that information and statistics from it, they can easily change theyre website to what the public prefers the most, of course money making is behind this.

So in these terms, ecxcept for rare entrys like alexa, which every windows user has, actually a spy registry entry from windows, try to delete it, undeletable, it automatically replaces, windows uses this one to spy u out actually. The only tool i ever saw detecting and REMOVING it was spybot, thats why it says use at ur own risk^^ This thing, depsite the origin, can remove any entry, how i dont even know today to be honest^^ But spybot can do that, a genius tool if u ask me.

But 99% of all tracking cookies are harmless, simple to get ur surfing behaviour on the owners website, thats all. Theres absolutely no need to worry about that^^ Spyware ud need to worry about, cause those was a manually set up tool to get direct information from u. Ad aware to, it to also scannes tracking cookies.

Well if u want to get rid of them, the only way i did was: Switching to comodo as firewall^^ No joke, this thing is so tough obviously, it would even block any tracking cookies for me, rly from a firewall for windows i cant ask more^^

Malwarebtes doesn't detect or remove any tracking cookies :)

LOl i see i dont use malwarebytes. but 300 entrys? this is then either a joke, false detects or tracking cookies, i never saw anything else gather entries in such an amount then tracking cookies.

This whole thing doesn't sound very much like malwarebytes to me.

yowanvista said:

kado897 said:

MrPenguin said:

LOl i see i dont use malwarebytes. but 300 entrys? this is then either a joke, false detects or tracking cookies, i never saw anything else gather entries in such an amount then tracking cookies.

This whole thing doesn't sound very much like malwarebytes to me.

It could be some kind of rogue AV

My thought too.

MrPenguin said:

BrightBlessings said:

A friend of mine ran the free version of malwarebytes and it showed they have 300+ infections.

these "infections" are tracking cookies, i bet like 99% of the incetions were tracking cookies

Since the nature of the infections aren't detailed by Odin, calling them tracking cookies is pure speculation at best. The infections may refer to specific file infections (ie. 300+ files have been infected) from a single, or possible multiple viruses/trojans.

Its entirely possibly to have 300+ file "infections", if thats what he is referring too.

Regards,
Golden