This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

WHY DOES MY ANTI VIRUS TELL ME FIREFOX IS USEING TRACKING COOKIES ???

  • 2 replies
  • 9 have this problem
  • 2 views
  • Last reply by zzxc

more options

TRACKING COOKIES ? DOES FIREFOX USE THEM OR NOT ?? MY ANTI VIRUS SAYS YOU DO ! I AM USING AVG SBS EDITION

TRACKING COOKIES ? DOES FIREFOX USE THEM OR NOT ?? MY ANTI VIRUS SAYS YOU DO ! I AM USING AVG SBS EDITION

All Replies (2)

more options

Hi - the message you get seems to be about cookies stored by websites. Could you post the exact text of the message here, so we can know for sure what it's saying?

Tracking cookies are stored by websites to track your visits to a website. They are not a threat to your computer, and you can remove cookies at any time by following the steps at Clear cookies and site data in Firefox.

It's safe to ignore antivirus warnings about tracking cookies. If you prefer, you can clear all Firefox cookies using the instructions above when this happens if you want to get rid of the cookies.

more options

See http://www.avg.com/us-en/faq.tpl-empty?num=2353#num-2334 (What are tracking cookie files?)