I just want to give everyone some PRELIMINARY info. I decided to post now because there COULD be some problems with the recommendations in the download file:

I draw your attention to:

"3.5. KEEPING MICROSOFT'S PRODUCTS"
And then "If you insist on using Microsoft Internet Explorer then I strongly recommend
that you check out at least one of these programs:
PurgeIE (www.aandrc.com/purgeie)"


I was familiar with the other recommended programs, but not PurgeIE. I downloaded PurgIE from the above link. I use PestPatrol, which is a program like ad-aware (http://pestpatrol.com ). PestPatrol also supposedly finds trojans and keyloggers. I say SUPPOSEDLY because I don't 100% trust anything anymore.

However, here's the log info from Pestpatrol:

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Pest Detected in c:\Program Files\PurgeIE\unins000.exe
Pest: WinSpy
Category: Key Logger
Description: From the doc: 'Want to find out what activities have done on your computer ? With @WinSpy, You can find out exactly what others have done on your computer , including what web sites they have been, what text, images, movies they have seen. and also what files they opened/saved, what kind of search they have done and what they ran at the start menu. Double click the displayed item will directly open or link to the file or the URL stored on your computer.' Commercial product from http://www.monitoring-spy-sof
Author: AceSoft
Release Date: 7/17/2002
User Action: deleted


Pest:
Category: Key Logger
Description: From the doc: 'Want to find out what activities have done on your computer ? With @WinSpy, You can find out exactly what others have done on your computer , including what web sites they have been, what text, images, movies they have seen. and also what files they opened/saved, what kind of search they have done and what they ran at the start menu. Double click the displayed item will directly open or link to the file or the URL stored on your computer.' Commercial product from http://www.monitoring-spy-sof
Author: AceSoft
Release Date: 7/17/2002
User Action: deleted

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I don't want to raise an alarm here, I just think that if you are going to use a cookie and/or url eraser, then until I - or someone else here - can investigate and followup, then use one of the other programs.