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Premium Internet Security
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When you choose Total Defense, you’re safeguarded with award-winning, multi-layered virus protection technology. Our powerful security lets you confidently shop, bank and browse online. In fact, we’re so certain we can protect you, if you’re running a Total Defense Security Product and a virus slips past our powerful protection, our expert technology advisors will remove the virus from your device for free. In the unlikely event the virus can’t be removed, we will give you your money back.
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Helpful tips and articles with practical steps you can follow to improve your online safety
Total Defense Security Tip of the Day
08.13.26
Clear out your cookies regularly to protect your privacy and reduce online tracking
Cookies make the web more convenient, but they also leave a trail. Websites use cookies to remember logins, keep items in your shopping cart, save preferences, and personalize what you see. That can be helpful, but over time, old cookies can also let websites and advertisers keep track of activity long after a person stops visiting those sites.
Clearing cookies every so often gives your browser a fresh start. It can improve privacy, reduce outdated tracking, and help remove information stored by websites that no longer need it.
What are browser cookies?
The FTC’s Internet Cookies guidance explains that a cookie is information saved by a web browser when a person visits a website, allowing that site to recognize the same device in the future.
Cookies can be useful because websites may use them to:
- Keep a person signed in
- Remember site preferences
- Save shopping cart items
- Provide locally relevant content
- Track pages viewed on a website
- Deliver personalized ads
Not all cookies are bad. Some cookies make websites work properly. The privacy concern comes from cookies that remain stored for long periods or help companies track activity across websites.
Why should you clear cookies every so often?
Clearing cookies can reduce the amount of stored website data sitting in a browser. The FTC’s How Websites and Apps Collect and Use Your Information article explains that websites may use cookies, pixels, device fingerprinting, and advertising identifiers to collect information about online activity.
That means cookies can help companies remember what someone clicked, searched for, viewed, or added to a cart. If a person no longer uses a site, keeping that old cookie may not provide much value. Clearing cookies removes stored site data and can reduce persistent tracking from sites that no longer matter.
How does clearing cookies help someone become safer online?
Clearing cookies helps someone become safer online because it limits how much old browsing data stays available in the browser. This protects privacy and reduces the chance that outdated site data, old sessions, or unnecessary trackers continue following online activity.
This habit can help:
- Remove old site preferences and stored browsing data
- Reduce tracking from websites no longer visited
- Sign out of sites on shared or family devices
- Fix some website loading or formatting problems
- Limit personalized ads based on older browsing activity
- Reduce clutter from years of accumulated site data
- Encourage better browser privacy habits
Think of cookies like digital notes websites leave in a browser. Some notes are useful. Others become outdated. Cleaning them out regularly keeps the browser less cluttered and more private.
How big is the online privacy risk?
Online activity can connect to real financial risk when scammers, fake sites, and deceptive ads enter the picture. The FTC’s Top scams of 2024 alert reported that people lost more than $3 billion to scams that started online in 2024, compared with about $1.9 billion from more traditional contact methods like calls, texts, or emails.
Clearing cookies will not stop every scam, but it supports a bigger privacy mindset: share less, store less, and regularly clean up the data trail companies and websites collect.
What happens when you delete cookies?
Deleting cookies can change how websites behave. Google’s Delete, allow, and manage cookies in Chrome support page notes that deleting cookies may sign a person out of sites that remember the person and may delete saved preferences.
After clearing cookies, a person may need to:
- Sign back in to websites
- Re-enter some preferences
- Rebuild shopping carts
- Accept or reject cookie banners again
- Load some pages slightly differently at first
That is normal. The privacy tradeoff is often worth it, especially on shared computers, older devices, or browsers used for shopping, banking, job searching, and social media.
How often should you clear cookies?
There is no one perfect schedule. A practical approach works best.
Consider clearing cookies:
- Once a month for everyday browsing
- After using a shared or public computer
- After visiting unfamiliar shopping sites
- After troubleshooting a broken website
- After researching sensitive topics
- After a major browser cleanup
- Before donating, selling, or sharing a device
If clearing all cookies feels inconvenient, delete cookies from specific sites instead. Microsoft’s Manage cookies in Microsoft Edge: View, allow, block, delete and use support page explains that Microsoft Edge lets users view, allow, block, and delete cookies, including cookies from specific sites.
How to clear cookies safely
Use this simple browser privacy checklist:
- Clear cookies from sites you no longer use
Start with old shopping, travel, forum, gaming, and coupon sites. - Keep passwords in a password manager
Do not rely on cookies to keep important accounts accessible. - Review third-party cookie settings
Third-party cookies can support cross-site tracking. - Use private browsing for one-time searches
Private mode can reduce local browsing history after the session ends. - Sign out after sensitive sessions
Always sign out of banking, healthcare, email, and work accounts. - Clear cookies on shared devices
Do this before another person uses the same browser. - Update your browser
Browser updates often include privacy and security improvements.
Cookies are useful, but they should not live in your browser forever. Clearing them every so often helps reduce tracking, improve privacy, and remove information stored by sites you no longer visit.
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VB100 Certification
The VB100 award is a certification of products which meet the basic standards required to be recognized as legitimate and properly functioning anti-malware solutions.
To display a VB100 logo, a product must:- Prove it can detect 100% of malware samples listed as ‘In the Wild’ by the WildList Organization
- Generate no false positives when scanning an extensive test set of clean samples.
- All this must be done with default, out-of-the-box settings in the VB lab environment.
