The new ewido guard and tracking cookies

[TopperID]

I believe that the new version of ewido will have a Guard capable of picking up tracking cookies while you surf.

Since cookies are constantly being picked up from sites you visit, and since a good proportion of these may be defined as trackers, does this mean ewido will contantly be bothering you with pop-ups each time you visit certain sites?

Personally I'm not worried about trackers 'cos I regularly use a cache cleaner to remove all cookies, except for the ones I want to keep. But it could be a nuisance if ewido notifies you every time it finds one.

[hubbahubba]

Hopefully perhaps it will behave and have an option like Spyware Doctor does....which allows the user to either see the pop-up window, or to "hide" the alerts (which means that the cookie will still be removed, you can view what cookies have been removed in a seperate folder within the interface, but you won't be notified with a pop-up window).

I'm also curious about the keylogger guard....but haven't received a reply yet when I asked about it in another thread.

[TopperID]

If ewido finds something significant, then I would like to be warned immediately, but I would not need to be notified about trackers.

If ewido has an option to suppress warnings then it might supress ALL warnings, which I would not like at all.

So ideally it should have a seperate warning function for tracking cookies and for serious malware.

[vinzenz.ewido]

@TopperID

You should have a look at the scanner settings. You can disable the option "Scan for tracking-cookies" so they won't be scanned anymore.

BR

Vinzenz

[TopperID]

If the new Guard is going to have that opton, then it will be good enough for me!:)

[peter.ewido]

The guard will have the following two options:

[x] Scan for tracking cookies
[x] Delete tracking cookies automatically

If there should be a cookie you really whish to keep you will then be able to add it to the ignore list... :)