[Aliska]

Thanks, have to think about that one. Guess CCleaner doesn't cut it. Now I find something called ParetoLogic Privacy Controls supposedly works better.

Yeah, stuff gets stuck all over my pc probably don't know the half of it. Some of it I don't know what it's for or I'd delete it knowing that it could be recovered with sophisticated software and techniques anyway. Use Win Media Player with FF and it still turns up in my IE8 cache. Some third grader would probably figure that out faster than I did.

I'm going to have to do some more research on this one. Sometimes I do ~think~ I have nuked all my cookies and start over because I do that occasionally, but I doubt that's sufficient.

I resent the sneakiness and deceptiveness of it all. I mean even supposedly reputable sites, what do they need with all that garbage and what do they do with it?

[danmar]

Now I find something called ParetoLogic Privacy Controls supposedly works better.

Be very careful with this one! It is very aggressive and will wipe out your hard drive cleaner than a whistle, including bookmarks, documents stuff,etc.

I should know, I have it and I payed the price for not digging a little deeper into it, of it's potential!

Also as an alternative try installing Ad-Aware from Lavasoft.They have a free version with limited capabilities, and it's pretty good at finding malware. Along the way you may want to try RegCure, a Registry Cleaner/Fixer with good potential.