Opera and Spybot acting strange. Any suggestions please?

Firegod

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Hey everyone.

Been having a bit of bother with Opera (v9.24) and Spybot (v1.5.1.16). When I ran the Immunise section of Spybot it constantly says I have 176 unprotected cookies within Opera.

Now within Opera I have it so that I have to accept cookies manually for sites I visit. Thinking that this was a bit excessive, but feeling that Spybot knows what it is on about I let it protect them. To my surprise when I went back into Opera and viewed my cookies I had a lot more that have somehow been added... but the catch, they are all for dirty sites?!?

I ran Immunise again and it said that now there were no outstanding cookies. I decided to delete these cookies and run Immunise again, and funnily enough it found these 176 cookies.

I have therefore uninstalled Opera and deleted the profile folder from within Documents & Settings/Application Data. This stores the all the settings and cookies.dat file.

I re-ran Immunise and it worked fine and recognised that Opera was not installed and did not show any options for it. I then did a clean install of Opera and ran the Immunise part of Spybot straight away. Bearing in mind this is a fresh install, no cookies or any files left on the hard drive. YET! Once more, Spybot says there are 176 unprotected cookies, and yes, they are all for dirty/virus sites?!?

I have no idea what is going on here, any help? For the time being I have de-selected the option so that it will leave these cookies alone but I find it strange when I have no cookies that it thinks there are 176??? :mad:

Thanks!
 
I've experienced this or something similar. What I think it is, is that Opera and Spybot aren't compatible. I just leave Spybot to block IE and FF cookies and don't bother with Opera. I then set Opera to ask my to set cookies so eventually the sites I use regularly will have cookies set that I want and the dodgy cookies I don't want won't be accepted. :)
 
Opera from Opera.com and the Spybot from a mirror off the Spybot site. Most probably the Spybot official mirror itself. I try to download programs from the official site itself. :)
 
MarcLister said:
I've experienced this or something similar. What I think it is, is that Opera and Spybot aren't compatible. I just leave Spybot to block IE and FF cookies and don't bother with Opera. I then set Opera to ask my to set cookies so eventually the sites I use regularly will have cookies set that I want and the dodgy cookies I don't want won't be accepted. :)
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Cheers for the reply. :) I think that's probably going to be the easiest thing for me as well, just leave Spybot off Opera cookies.

whitecrook said:
Where did you get the spybot installer and the opera installer files?
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I also downloaded both from the official sites.
 
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