Opera cookie detected by avg after running ccleaner

avg detected a tracking cookie after i ran ccleaner (cookie cookies4.dat) how do i remove it without removing opera

Menu > Settings > Preferences > Advanced > Cookies > Manage Cookies.

You can delete the cookies you want.

i cant find the cookie

i can find it when i go to C:\Documents and Settings\Austin 2\Application Data\Opera\Opera its cookies4.dat but when i delete it keeps coming back

cookies4.dat is the file where the cookies are stored and will always be recreated.

so what do i do

You can setup Opera to not accept cookies if you want but it may cause problems on a lot of sites, specially the ones on which you need to log in. But you can use "edit site preferences" to enable cookies for those sites.

does that mean avg will stop detecting the cookie?

avg still recognises the cookie

What tracking cookie? Don't go to a site that sets it if you don't want to get it...

It is advisable for the privacy conscious to use the option 'Only accept cookies from sites I visit'.

Or, if you're determined to visit a site using tracking cookies, you could try combining Rijk's and the inverse of LeoCG's advice. That is, set your general Preferences to 'Only accept cookies from sites I visit' (which I personally believe is the only way to browse), and then use 'site preferences' to 'never accept cookies' at the sites which set tracking cookies on your system which are causing you (or AVG) concern. But don't necessarily expect those sites to work properly without their cookies being accepted by you.

avg is detecting it every time i open my opera browser

Option 1: Set AVF to not check Opera's cookies;

Option 2: Check on AVG which site is sending this cookies and then block cookies for this site in Opera;

Option 3: Just forget about it and surf the web.

Open AVG, in the top bar open Tools > "Advanced settings...", then in the left "folder" section of the panel, click on the "Anti-Virus" + box to expand it, then click on the "Resident Shield" folder name to highlight it. In the right panel information that appears, you should see an entry for "Scan for Tracking Cookies" (the second line in the latest AVG versions); uncheck its checkbox. Click "OK" at the panel bottom and then close AVG. That should end AVG's further detection of tracking cookies. In newer AVG versions, the detection is now turned off by default, but in older versions or if something peculiar happened within AVG (or its updating), the function may have been turned on. Since so many sites now employ some form of cookie that at least appear like trackers and won't work properly with them suppressed, it's not that practical any more to deal with them by anti-virus program alerts. You can try instead to combat the problem with browser cookie settings (accept only cookies from sites you visit, except on known safe sites where you can use site preferences to tweak to some other setting) and set the browser to delete cookies upon exit to get rid of even the first-party trackers.

Note that if you merely set to delete-on-exit, Opera will dump all the cookies, including those you might want to keep for log-ins, etc. In that case, before enabling Opera's delete-on-exit cookie setting, manually use the cookie manager to remove all the unwanted cookies by sites, exit Opera, then reopen Opera. Then enable the delete-on-exit cookie setting and all the cookies currently present will thereafter NOT be dumped upon exit. Opera auto-magically retains thereafter any cookies present before the dump-on-exit enablement was made... hence the log-ins, etc can be thus retained while all later cookies (trackers included) all get dumped each time Opera exits.