Ever since the otmaker problems of last month, it seems a good idea to do more comprehensive checking. I’ve had good advice to run the Ewido trojan scanner. However, someone forgot to tell me it won’t run in WIndows 98, so I have to reboot into Windows XP.

It finds a massive number of traffic cookies, it used to be I would just ignore these as harmless, but now I’m on a kill for everything stealing system resources. So that’s 207 traffic cookies removed. In total it removed over 700 cookies and useless junk.