After reseting safari I've noticed that my deleted cookies are reappearing. It takes a little bit of time to happen, few minutes or hours. The cookies list has cookies from sites I haven't been to in a while. Anyone else run into this? Searches didn't yield anything.
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Cookies are created whenever you visit websites. Just because you delete them doesn't mean you'll never have cookies again. What sites are the cookies from? Also, when you visit a site, you may get cookies from that site and from other sites that are linked to that site. You don't have to actually visit a site to get cookies from it.
There are no viruses in existence that can run on your Mac.
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If I would be you I would launch the 'KeyChain' application in the Utlity folder.
I'm pretty sure that the 'problem' could be found there...
If you have Cocktail, Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner, Oni (which is free) or any other maintenance program, try cleaning your Mac. These programs work very well.
If you run one of these apps make sure that you select to remove cookies from all users! That includes the Library on your 'Macintosh HD' or any other Library like the Shared one.
Sincerely.
If I would be you I would launch the 'KeyChain' application in the Utlity folder.
I'm pretty sure that the 'problem' could be found there...
If you have Cocktail, Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner, Oni (which is free) or any other maintenance program, try cleaning your Mac. These programs work very well.
If you run one of these apps make sure that you select to remove cookies from all users! That includes the Library on your 'Macintosh HD' or any other Library like the Shared one.
Sincerely.
You probably didn't delete them. Read this: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-again/
Very good link!
I always check those folders every two weeks.
Never the less I also bought a program called 'MacScan' for scanning cookies. Once and a while this program has found malicious cookies... The cookie database renews every month. The malicious cookies are always safely removed.
Never the less, one is free on how he/she maintains their Mac(s). Manual or with a program (shareware/freeware)... It's not my intension to promote any of the above programs
The cute part is that they don't even mention Safari's "LocalStorage" folder.
Yet, soon as we visit that Wired page:
Code:
$ [COLOR="Blue"]ls -log ~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage |grep -i wired[/COLOR]
-rw-r--r--@ 1 6144 Feb 9 02:43 http_wiredepicenter.disqus.com_0.localstorage
-rw-r--r--@ 1 6144 Feb 9 02:43 http_www.wired.com_0.localstorageYou can also simply delete them manually. Just delete everything in the following folders:
/Users/username/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects
/Users/username/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys
If you delete them fairly often, it is much more efficient to create an Automator app.