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My anti-virus (AVG) software says the following cookie is a virus...Cookies.sqlite, cookies.sqlite-journal and they are some tracking cookies by firefox. Should I delete them?

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My anti-virus software (AVG) is coming up with a virus called "trafficmp" it want's to delete this from firefox. What is this type of cookie and should I delete it?

My anti-virus software (AVG) is coming up with a virus called "trafficmp" it want's to delete this from firefox. What is this type of cookie and should I delete it?

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Sounds to me like you should remove it. The best way to do this is by clearing all your cookies. I would follow the Deleting All Cookies on this page Clear cookies and site data in Firefox.