Spyware Doctor Activity Report

[Amron]

I have just installed Spyware Doctor and run a scan, cleaning out about 110 infected items.

I then ran a scan using Spybot S&D. The Spybot scan turned up 4 persistant cookies that I have been unable to get rid of, all 4 of these went undetected with Spyware Doctor:

Mediaplex, Zedo, Marketengines, bluemountain

How do I clean these using Spyware Doctor?

[Amron]

I have just run the first Spyware Doctor scan on my computer.

I have found the Spyware Doctor Activity Report that followed after the scan but cannot quite figure out how you use that information.

Known Bad Sites cookies.txt - Line #10 High
Tracking Cookie(s) cookies.txt - Line #100 Low
Tracking Cookie(s) cookies.txt - Line #101 Low
Tracking Cookie(s) cookies.txt - Line #102 Low
Tracking Cookie(s) cookies.txt - Line #103 Low
Tracking Cookie(s) cookies.txt - Line #104 Low
Tracking Cookie(s) cookies.txt - Line #105 Low
Tracking Cookie(s) cookies.txt - Line #106 Low
Known Bad Sites cookies.txt - Line #11 High
<snip>

How do I know what these notations mean? Known Bad Sites-cookies.txt -Line #10????? How do I know what site this is?

How do I know what these cookies are that are listed?

What am I missing???

[katie]

Hey Amron

What version of Spyware Doctor are you using? Click on Help|About.
I did a search on the pctools infections database and found this:

Name: Adware.MediaPlex
Description: Adware.MediaPlex is an adware program which produces pop-up advertisements at random intervals.
Type: Adware
Also known as: Adware-Mediaplex [McAfee] Adware.Meplex [Symantec]
Removal: This infection can be removed using Spyware Doctor.

kt

[Amron]

Oops, sorry.

Version 4.0.0.2621

Thanks, did not even know about the infections database. I am assuming this is located on their website?

[katie]

Yep the infections database is on the pctools website:

http://www.pctools.com/mrc/infections/

Results with cookies may vary from different scanners as cookies are detected by badsites listed in the database. What is considered a bad site by other scanners may not be bad for SD, but yeh since they are cookies its not much of a threat.

kt

[Amron]

Yep the infections database is on the pctools website:

http://www.pctools.com/mrc/infections/

Results with cookies may vary from different scanners as cookies are detected by badsites listed in the database. What is considered a bad site by other scanners may not be bad for SD, but yeh since they are cookies its not much of a threat.

kt

Thanks for the reply.

I wanted to ask again one of my original questions that somehow got lumped into this thread (even though it was written as a separate thread) since there was no response to it.

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have just run the first Spyware Doctor scan on my computer.

I have found the Spyware Doctor Activity Report that followed after the scan but cannot quite figure out how you use that information.

Known Bad Sites cookies.txt - Line #10 High
Tracking Cookie(s) cookies.txt - Line #100 Low
Tracking Cookie(s) cookies.txt - Line #101 Low
Tracking Cookie(s) cookies.txt - Line #102 Low
Tracking Cookie(s) cookies.txt - Line #103 Low
Tracking Cookie(s) cookies.txt - Line #104 Low
Tracking Cookie(s) cookies.txt - Line #105 Low
Tracking Cookie(s) cookies.txt - Line #106 Low
Known Bad Sites cookies.txt - Line #11 High
<snip>

How do I know what these notations mean? Known Bad Sites-cookies.txt -Line #10????? How do I know what site this is?

How do I know what these cookies are that are listed?

What am I missing???
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[c_edge]

I guess your post has been moved as it was related to your initial query.

Looks like it doesn't list the cookie names in the Spyware Doctor Activity Report.

However, after the initial scan, these cookies are displayed in the report once the scan has completed.

Another way to check this is going through your log files. Try doing a search for cookies as it should come up as:

example C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Cookies\admin@www.example[1].txt

c:\Program Files\Spyware Doctor\logs

c_edge :)