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Offline omegaknightlul

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Spy cookies?!?!?!
« on: December 23, 2018, 03:40:14 AM »
   Hello I am a gamer who primarily plays FPS games. I was recently playing a game called wizard101 which I decided to play to take a break from competitive games. I got an alert saying something along the lines of “We discovered you have spy cookies on your computer” and then asks me to purchase something to block it. I then quickly log on to Overwatch to see if any performance issues has occured and nothing changed. I then follow up to perform a boot up scan to check for possible malware. Avast only found 2 corrupted zip files which were windows media player and skins. I’m very paranoid and I want to play GAMES without having my account stolen. I clear my browser history pretty much everytime I use it. I want to play games the whole break without the fear of losing my account(s). :((, I also don’t plan on installing over av/scanning items to check.

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Re: Spy cookies?!?!?!
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2018, 09:04:01 AM »
I got an alert saying something along the lines of “We discovered you have spy cookies on your computer” and then asks me to purchase something to block it.
Who says so..? Sounds like a scam, post a screenshot.
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Re: Spy cookies?!?!?!
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2018, 01:58:18 AM »
I don’t have a screen shot but it was from Avast. It was trying to get me to purchase a trial or something. I think it was for clean-up. I don’t know why it said I had spy cookies.

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Re: Spy cookies?!?!?!
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2018, 05:22:20 AM »
-> https://support.avast.com/article/96/ (Add/Remove components)
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