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Old April 10th, 2020, 06:51 PM
Digerati Digerati is offline
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FWIW, I had 287 tracking cookies associated with Chrome even though I seldom use it
How do you know they were "tracking" cookies? If you are going by SAS, that's just what they call them.

And FTR, most cookies are not real "tracking" cookies and most "tracking" cookies are not malicious. 99.9% of the time, cookies are good. And yes, it does not take long to have 100s or even 1000s downloaded on to our systems. And most of the time they do no harm. SAS just found 242 tracking cookies on my system. But it does say, "While not harmful...". And I note most are also for Chrome.

What you need to do is get this machine current either with W10 or Linux. Get a decent anti-malware solution. I use Windows Defender on all 6 of my W10 machines here. It's already built in and works fine. Then make sure you keep your OS and security programs current, and you make sure you have plenty of free disk space for the OS to operate freely in. Then last, make sure you are not "click-happy" on unsolicited links, popups, downloads and attachments.
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