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AVG resident shield alert cookie.zedo every time I open firefox or thunderbird

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Every time I open Firefox or Thunderbird I get a "resident Shield ALert on "Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\dlmgqhum.default\cookies.sqlite".

How do I stop this?

Every time I open Firefox or Thunderbird I get a "resident Shield ALert on "Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\dlmgqhum.default\cookies.sqlite". How do I stop this?

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Zedo is a tracking cookie:

Have you allowed AVG to try to remedy the problem?

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I tried Spyware treminator and current free version of AVG...no joy..

Trying Zedoremovaltool now..

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Zedoremovaltool may have worked but thought it cost to much ..

I went into firefox ...tools..options..privacy and removed individual cookies..

we'll see it that works...