Computer (Why quarantine cookies)?

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Webroot's spy sweeper allways says to quarantine cookies when it runs a sweep. Calls them "spy cookies". Aren't all cookies spy cookies and what good does it do to quarantine them and revisit the website again that had the cookies before?
Maybe I'm missing something here. Educate me.
 
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You're pretty much right. Most cookies are nothing to worry about, but the spyware apps like to consider them spyware because of the # of them that everyone will have.

If they left all the cookies alone, it would often look like their app wasn't really doing anything.
 

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Webroot has a fancy look to it's software, but I think it's highly over-rated.
 
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These spyware apps are really good at what they do, but unless they are finding "critical objects", they really aren't doing much

(Which is actually a good sign, because if you have a good firewall/virus scanner & aren't going to any rogue web sites-you shouldn't have any critical objects)
 

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