Question about removing cookies?

Overall strategy for 'cookies';

A cookie distinction should be made:

"1st party" cookie assets are from the site you ask the browser to 'fetch'. They are usually helpful, usually harmless and are often required to view and interact with the site.

It's actually better to keep these oft' visited site cookies, because they save your site settings, preferences, log-in's, 'wish lists', and so on.

You may want to exclude them from cleaning with any utilities, like Glary Utilities, CCleaner, or clearing "when browser closes" (a browser setting).

This strategy does have certain security implications, which can be convoluted. Analyze your entire threat panorama to make the best judgment.

Your browser simultaneously (and unless modified) automatically fetches "3rd party" cookie assets. These components are not from the primary URL address/site, but from remote servers; and are normally associated with advertising, and indicate your browser is in it's "stock" configurations.

Because there can never be certainty about what exactly is being returned from those remote servers, you should stop those 3rd party 'assets' from even getting inside your system in the first place; then fall back to removal tactics with a 'scrubber', such as "CCleaner" or "Glary Utilities" (for the less evil 'stuff'); and a malware remover such as "MalwareBytes" http://www.malwarebytes.org/ for the really bad stuff.

(See GRC for simple diagrams on how browsers fetch and display 1st and 3rd party 'assets'; https://www.grc.com/cookies/operation.htm

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That salesman is a pinhead, giving advice about things he knows very little about, or intentionally is setting you up for tracking cookies, which may benefit his company in some manner.

In your specific scenario, you'd probably want to clear all cookies; and also 'flash' cookies (settable by 1st & 3rd parties) after each visit.

"Flash" can be somewhat controlled by "Better Privacy" add-on for Firefox.

You may even consider using a second browser for this, as it would have less revealing attributes related to multiple 'visits'.

Try Malwarebytes, Spybot Search & Destroy or Superantispyware, they all work very well and have free versions. It does no harm to have multiple malware scanners, it's only antivirus programs that are strictly one only installed.

Cookies are generally harmless, the most annoying feature with some is the 'cross site' stuff where you look at an item on one web site and then get bombarded with ads for that item on every site you go to (that has ads)..

You can also go to your browser privacy settings & delete all cookies there.

I doubt they affect flight prices.

Flights go up in price day by day then hour by hour as you get to the last possible second, generally based on how many unsold seats there are.

They work on the basis that anyone booking months in advance is not on a critical schedule, where last minute is likely business or an emergency of some sort where people will pay any amount to get the specific flight they need.

Just get your browser to delete them. You don't need rubbish AV software like McAfee, Bull or SuperAntispyware to do such a mundane task.

Just go into the settings for your browser and look for the security section and delete the cookies yourself. It is quicker than scanning the whole PC with an AV program.

If Bullgard is leaving less for SuperAntispyware, does that not tell you how poor McAfee was ?

If you have a good commercial AV package, then you also have full anti-spyware.

Good anti-malware software should never be deleting these cookies as they are not malware.

Change the cookie settings in your browser to something more sensible.

I would recommend using Opera browser as it is the only one that lets you save settings for each site you visit.

You can right-click somewhere in the page and quickly access the settings and cookies for that site.

Try blocking all cookies for the site

It lets you set it so that when you close the browser, it can auto-delete the cookies.

Most browsers let you use a "private" or "secure" tab. This deletes all info related to that tab when you close it.

Here is a useful page with info on setting up all the main browsers

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-harden...

Go to you're internet settings and then delete them from there.

Hold CTRL - Shift - Del - delete cookies

You've no real need for a piece of software to remove them when you're browser does this for you.

IF you like you can even go into you're settings and stop cookies being kept altogether, but some websites require you to allow cookies to even use it.

block third party cookies:

http://www.bobulous.org.uk/misc/third-party-cookie...