Cookies by the hundreds.

I have been doing so many things with my new install.
Reading lots of Tutorials and trying many things; I forgot all about this.

Eset Online Scanner found this. It's the only scanner that I have found that finds this. Of course I removed it.

C:\Users\Jack\Desktop\Good Shit\spsetup131.exe Win32/Bundled.Toolbar.Google.D potentially unsafe application

I had already ran the scan on both of my Windows 7 installs.

I will find out in a couple of days.

Knock on wood Veneer desk top.

I'm back using Firefox as default. I hope it works as well as it does in Windows 7.

Jack

Layback Bear said:

I have found on my system Firefox (57.0.2) is getting hundreds of tracking cookies. Found with SAS.

It doesn't happen with Windows 7.

Any ideas?

Jack

I noticed an uptick in trackers, etc shortly before v57.0.2. I first noticed it on an Android tablet that runs AdBlockPlus and Ghostery as addons to FF. Some sites will have upwards of 50 things blocked by AdBlock and over 60 cookies blocked by Ghostery on a single URL. I see similar counts on this W10 PC with FF. I believe it's related to websites, not so much the browser. Waiting until the holidays are over to see if the counts drop. I'm thinking it's all shopping related. The holiday marketing e-mails have also skyrocketed in recent weeks. BestBuy fills my inbox on a daily basis, as do other retailers. As an aside, we always run CCleaner after each internet browser session to help clean up any leftovers after the browsers are closed.

I also noticed after removing the Google bundle my Firefox cache went from 300,000 kb plus to 300 kb.
I have not got bad cookie found by SAS also.
My whole system is faster sense I removed the Google bundle.

Jack

Seems like finding and removing the Google toolbar bundle solved the problem.

Thanks folks for your help.

Jack

I use Super Anti Spyware to remove tracking cookies. This makes removing tracking cookies easy.
The hard part is figuring out where all of them was coming from.

Jack