My cookies folder Is filling up constantly with text files. The file names are random letters and numbers, 8 characters in total. Even when not browsing.

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My cookies folder Is filling up constantly with text files. The file names are random letters and numbers, 8 characters in total. Even when not browsing.

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Original Title: cookies folder continually fills up

Hi:

My cookies folder

C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies

Is filling up constantly with text files. The file names are random letters and numbers, 8 characters in total.

Each file contains many numbers and references to webpages.

AVG is finding them as tracking cookies and gives me constant warning messages, but does not delete them.

When I delete them manually -all of them- the folder starts getting populated again.

There is also another file called index.dat that cannot be removed as it seems to be open. It seems to contain the names of all these files.

I have changed my internet settings to high security and privacy, but still happens.

What could be wrong?

Thanks

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Answer 1

Hi,

Which Web browser are you using?

In case you are using Internet Explorer and you want cookies to be deleted then you may open Internet Explorer and try the steps provided below.

a) Press the Alt button on the keyboard once the Internet Explorer is open.

b) This will display the Menu bar at the top in Internet Explorer.

c) Now click on Tools and select the last option Internet Options from the drop down.

d) In the Internet Explorer Windows, in the general tab under browsing history put the check mark against the option “Delete browsing history on Exit”.

e) You can also select what you exactly want to delete by clicking on delete button and then you may select “Cookies”.

Also see:

How to delete cookie files in Internet Explorer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835

Answer 2

Thanks, the issue is not that there are cookies, it's that it fills up extremely fast (about 20 cookies per minute) without even browsing (IE and Chrome are closed).

As I am working I constantly receive from AVG messages saying a threat from a tracking cookie has been found.

So I delete them all following your procedure but within half an hour I have some 300 cookies in the folder again!

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