You needc more that one, Doogie. I’ve got several, with Avast running all the time, others on request. I’ve found recently that SUPERAntiSpyware is the best program for wiping out tracking cookies, which all the others miss, or else delete all your cookies, or ask you to choose which to keep which to toss. CNET has good reviews of all such programs, but try to avoid downloading from there, as they wrap everything up in their own installer which carries free gifts of bloatware, adware and such.
Cannot be overstated. DO NOT DL from Cnet. You'll spend hours removing the junk they toss in.
Also, Ccleaner is a good cleanup product. In fact, everything I've tried from Piriform is good - recovered some inadvertently deleted photos from an SM card with Recuva, pretty good stuff.
I just tried out SUPERAntiSpyware earlier today, and you are quite correct, it flushed out some tracking cookies that Malwarebytes never found.
I’m questioning the value of Malwarebytes right now. I ran it earlier today, and it found what it claimed was a virus (actually adware) called “PUP.Optional.InstallCore.A” I deleted it, Malwarebytes said it was gone, but I scanned again and it was still there.
I googled it, and found numerous sites offering dire warnings about what it could do, and advice on how to get rid of it. Most of those sites appeared to have similar or identical content, and wanted me to download a “removal tool” which turned out to be a trial version of an anti-malware program called Spy Hunter. It found loads of “problems”, but it wanted money before it would delete anything.
The manual deletion methods I have seen are so vague that it’s not clear what you’re supposed to do.
SUPERAntiSpyware doesn’t find it.
One site that seemed legitimate even suggested this was one of the “gifts” that Cnet gives you, though I know that’s not where I got it from.
Has anyone else encountered this problem?