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Vendor:Tracking Cookie
Category:Data Miner
Object Type:IECache Entry
Description:This cookie is known to collect information that may be used either for targeted advertising, or tracking users across a particular website, such as page views or ad click-thrus.


How do I TOTALLY GET RID OF THIS?

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A quick reality check on the message shown by : that "Vendor: Tracking Cookie" is a browser identifier, not an executable. It is used to recognise a browser across visits and can be set by the site you visit or by third-party ad/analytics servers. Removing the local cookie only removes the local copy; if the site (or an included ad script) issues the same Set-Cookie on page load, the cookie will be re-created.

The practical ways to stop recurrence are twofold: block the source that issues the cookie, or remove the local component that keeps requesting it. A useful diagnostic sequence is:

  • Identify the cookie name and the domain that set it (browser developer tools -> Storage/Application -> Cookies or the browser's cookie viewer).
  • Use the network inspector to see which request returns a Set-Cookie header so you know which host or script to block.
    Blocking options include DNS/hosts-level blocking or a tracker/blocking browser extension. Example hosts entry format:
    127.0.0.1 adserver.example.com

    Make a backup before editing the hosts file and be aware blocking can break embedded services.

A couple of special notes: some “supercookies” (Flash Local Shared Objects or similar) are not removed by ordinary cookie deletion and require LSO cleaners or the runtime’s privacy settings. Also, if a cookie keeps appearing even when you are not visiting the related sites, scan for installed adware modules — scanners are useful for resident adware but, as and implicitly showed, scanning or one-off deletion alone may not stop server-side re-creation. If privacy is the goal, combine tracker-blocking, blocking the source domain, and use private sessions so identifiers do not persist between visits.

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Just go to Internet Options in Internet Explorer and hit the delete cookies button.

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