Use with Norton package already installed

[Dave P.]

I have the Norton package, Spybot S & D, and Spywareblaster installed. I noticed that when I went into Norton Cleansweep and checked for cookies there, it showed quite a few undesirable spyware jobbies that Norton would not let me delete unless I turned off "Safety Sweep". (I presume you`re familiar with this) Does this mean, I cry, that Blaster won`t protect against certain spy cookies because Norton won`t let it, or now I have got rid of them, can I use Safetysweep again and be protected. I have, for your information, sent a similar question to the Spybot developer.

[Pieter_Arntz]

Hi Dave,

SpywareBlaster will not protect you against cookies, but I´m curious to know if Spybot S&D does not find these cookies. It should at least find them. Wether it is able to actually remove them is another question and I can´t answer that one.

Regards,

Pieter

[javacool]

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I have the Norton package, Spybot S & D, and Spywareblaster installed. I noticed that when I went into Norton Cleansweep and checked for cookies there, it showed quite a few undesirable spyware jobbies that Norton would not let me delete unless I turned off "Safety Sweep". (I presume you`re familiar with this) Does this mean, I cry, that Blaster won`t protect against certain spy cookies because Norton won`t let it, or now I have got rid of them, can I use Safetysweep again and be protected. I have, for your information, sent a similar question to the Spybot developer.
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I am not familiar with Safetysweep, but I can answer your main question:

SpywareBlaster does not currently protect against spyware/trackware cookies (it prevents against ActiveX based spyware programs).

That's not to say, of course, that such functionality will not be included soon. ;)

EDIT: Pieter beat me to it.

Best regards,

-Javacool

[Dave P.]

Thanks for that. I realise now that I am obviously confusing two different different types of spyware items, (programmes and tracking cookies) I`m only a "one year" PC virgin, and there`s still an awfull lot to learn :) !Incidently, Spybot does seem to find and remove OK, but it needs running on a regular basis after surfing. It would be nice if someone (perhaps you!) cooked up an automatic version, as in Blaster, for eliminating undesirable tracking cookies. Keep up the good work.

[Pieter_Arntz]

Hi Dave,

From javacool´s answer you might conclude that the feature is being worked on. ;)

Regards,

Pieter