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How to Remove lycos.com Cookie from Your Computer

You can effectively remove the lycos.com cookie from your computer with Exterminate It!.

After installing the program, run a scan to display the lycos.com cookie in the Scan Result screen and remove this file. For information on running scans and removing the items found, see the Exterminate It! Help.

Please note, that during the removal of the lycos.com cookie using Exterminate It!, the cookie is only temporarily removed and it will be automatically recreated when you visit the lycos.com website again, or when you visit any other website that uses any of the lycos.com components.

For information on how to permanently prevent the lycos.com cookie from being recreated, refer to Permanent Blocking of lycos.com Cookie section.

You can effectively remove lycos.com cookie

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How Did lycos.com Cookie Appear at My PC?

The following are the most likely reasons why your computer got populated with lycos.com cookie:

• You have directly visited lycos.com
• A website that you have visited uses some of the components (pages, files, images, and so on) of the lycos.com website
• A software application with Internet-enabled functionality that had previously accessed the lycos.com website was running on your PC (in this case, the lycos.com cookie will be saved in Internet Explorer)

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Detecting lycos.com Cookie

You can detect the presence of the lycos.com cookie in your system using the Exterminate It! antimalware application. This way, the detection and removal will be performed automatically. Alternatively, you can choose to perform the following steps, depending on the browser you are using:

To detect lycos.com cookie in Internet Explorer (IE)

Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)

1. From the Tools menu, or the Tools list in the upper right section, select Internet Options
2. Under Browsing History, click Settings
3. Click View Objects or View Files
4. Check if for the lycos.com cookie is present on the list

Internet Explorer 5.x-6.x (IE5-IE6)

1. From the Tools menu, select Options or Internet Options
2. In the General tab, click Settings
3. Select View Files

You can identify the lycos.com cookie files by checking the file names beneath the Name or Internet Address column. The files will contain the Cookie: lycos.com element.

To detect lycos.com cookie in Mozilla Firefox (FF)

1. From the Tools menu, select Options
2. In the upper section of the Options window, click Privacy
3. In the Cookies tab, click Show Cookies or remove individual cookies link
4. In the Cookies window, enter lycos.com in the Search field and run a search, or you can scroll down the list to check whether the lycos.com cookie is present there

Permanent Blocking of lycos.com Cookie on Your PC

Below, you will find instructions on how to block the lycos.com cookie permanently in the different browsers.

To block lycos.com cookie in Internet Explorer

1. From the Tools menu of Internet Explorer, select Internet Options
2. Select the Privacy tab, and then click Sites. The Per site privacy actions window will be displayed
3. In the Per site privacy actions window, enter lycos.com in the Address of Web site field
4. Click Block

To block lycos.com cookie in Mozilla Firefox

1. From the Tools menu, select Options
2. In the upper section of the Options window, click Privacy
3. In the Cookies tab, click Exceptions
4. In the new Exceptions - Cookies window, enter lycos.com in the Address of Website field and click Disable

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