2 cookies to delete keep appearing in CC

[rhino]

Just as the title says, I see two cookies to delete in CCleaner (section options/cookies >>> left panel). These two cookies are respectively cnn.edition.com and www.google.com. According to the icon shown when highlighting the entries, they're Internet Explorer cookies. Noticed them yesterday. Now the problem is that I've run CCleaner a million times in the mean time and they're still there, but just in that panel. They don't appear in a CCleaner analysis. I've also cleaned IE using the native cleaning interface, deleting absolutely everything, including inprivate filtering data if any, including favorite data if any, no change, they're still there in CCleaner. I cannot locate them on the disk either. I've even re-installed CCleaner to make sure there was no install corruption, remnants from a previous install for example.

 

I don't have any feeds nor bookmarks in IE, they're all deleted. No plugin can justify these cookies either. They just seem to be persistent somehow but I can't find the source. Only thing I can say is that Google is set as homepage in IE, and I do visit CNN web site. Any help appreciated. Thanks.

 

ps: I'm running IE9 beta on W7/64

[DennisD]

Could be Flash Cookies.

 

Make sure you have the "Abobe Flash Player" box checked in the "Applications\MultiMedia", and see if that helps.

[Nergal]

Actually it sounds more like Ghost images in the cookies dat. restart the p.c. and see if they go away.

[rhino]

thanks for the feedback guys, but Flash Player data is cleared and the computer has been restarted a few times, but the cookies still appear in the "cookies to delete" list (again, they don't appear in the list generated by a CCleaner analysis). I don't think I'll get rid of that unless I create a new Windows profile, but I'd like to avoid that. Must be as said by the above poster a corrupt DAT file. There's one that I tried to edit in the IE cookies folder but access is denied because file is in use, no matter if IE runs or not, so I can't read what's inside. Another DAT file appears in a subfolder called "low". I could open it with a trick (as there's a Windows Security message denying access there), but this one (the DAT file there) gets deleted easily with CCleaner.

[Nergal]

get/install unlocker (http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ ignore the "this site is bad" it isn't ) and right click the file and choose unlocker and see what is locking it and even unlock it and then tell unlocker to delete it at next startup. also be sure you are checking the task manager processes tab to be sure that there are no errant iexplore.exe running

[rhino]

get/install unlocker (http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ ignore the "this site is bad" it isn't ) and right click the file and choose unlocker and see what is locking it and even unlock it and then tell unlocker to delete it at next startup. also be sure you are checking the task manager processes tab to be sure that there are no errant iexplore.exe running

 

don't know why I didn't think of that first. Yeah that's a good idea... I could even delete it at boot time with MalwareByte. But I give unlocker a shot, thanks.

[rhino]

didn't help, I could delete the DAT file I mentioned above, but that didn't change anything, CCleaner still detects the two cookies I'd give a lot to know where they're located

[cartel]

Hey I am having this problem too.

I went in the registry and changed the default cookie locations to "cookies2" and rebooted and they are still there.

 

I managed to delete the original cookies file and the list is still there.

 

What do I do?

Where is CCleaner getting this cookie info from?

 

[cartel]

I Found the file.

Looks like CCleaner is missing some other usage tracks!

 

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStore\index.dat

 

?DOMStore:http://fire.clangrid.com/ ?fire.clangrid[1].xml        K<S
   ﾭ?DOMStore:http://search.yahoo.com/ ??search.yahoo[1].xml         
              `   h    ?                  f<??       f<??    ﾭ?DOMStore:http://www.paypal.com/         `+??i?        
              `   h    ?                  L=       L=    ﾭ?DOMStore:http://sn107w.snt107.mail.live.com/           :-?i?        
              `   h     ?                  L=       L=    ﾭ?DOMStore:http://secure.shared.live.com/            ???k?        
              `   h    ?                  N=m?       N=m?    ﾭ?DOMStore:http://post.craigslist.org/               `   h    ?                  Q=?<       Q=?<    ﾭ?DOMStore:http://badoo.com/          ?^?? n?        
              `   h     ?                  R=?E       R=?E    ﾭ?DOMStore:http://serverfault.com/          `?E? n?        
              `   h    ?                  R=?E       R=?E    ﾭ?DOMStore:http://stackauth.com/            P?YDb?        
              `   h    ?                  B=?y       B=?y    ﾭ?DOMStore:http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/ webcache.googleusercontent[1].xml               `   h    ?                  I=%       I=%    ﾭ?DOMStore:http://stackauth.com/           Ьbah?        
              `   h    ?                  J=	O       J=	O    ﾭ?DOMStore:http://www.cnn.com/

 

and while your at it:

 

Include1=FILE|%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\|DCBC2A71-70D8-4DAN-EHR8-E0D61DEA3FDF.ini

Include2=PATH|%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Recovery\|*.*|RECURSE

Include3=PATH|%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache\Content\|*.*

Include4=PATH|%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache\MetaData\|*.*

Include5=PATH|%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStore\|*.*|RECURSE

Include6=PATH|%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\|*.*

Include7=PATH|%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Flash Player\|*.*|REMOVESELF

Include8=PATH|%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\|*.*

Include9=PATH|%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\|*.*|REMOVESELF

Include10=PATH|C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Temp\|*.*

[cartel]

ahhhh much better.

 

[Nergal]

Dom cleans but may taken a few tries

 

I'm a little confused by the

I went in the registry and changed the default cookie locations to "cookies2" and rebooted and they are still there.

 

 

This seem to be an odd and dangerous change perhaps you'd be better explaining it? the registry entry of the browser? or of ccleaner?