I recently accidently let a virus into my PC, i have restored the system to the last day and the virus is now gone. Left behind are some tracker cookies and ive been trying to get rid of them, ive tried a few remover programs and tbh i dont think they work. I hope someone could recommend a program or even better tell me how to manually remove them if that is possible.

Thanks

Clearing cookies from within the browser will be enough. Things like SpyBot and AdAware will also clear them in a scan. If you have been infected by a virus you really need to do two things..

1) Update your virus software (if you are not using any then download this) and make sure that the latest definitions have been updated. Then run a full scan. This will take a while so put aside an hour or so to do this. All depending on the sizes of your HDs and how many files you have on them.

2) Download AdAware or SpyBot and do a system scan. This will remove any lingering bit's and pieces that aren't virus related but do track or monitor your movement.

Great thanks, yeh the virus didnt infect my computor via the internet it was my own idiocy that lead me to opening an infected file without scaning it first. My virus software all all up to date. Ive tried cleaning the cookies by deleting them via internet options on my browser although no sucess, so ill try AdAware or Spybot

Thing is, cookies can only ever live in one place (per browser), and even then they are nothing more than plain text files. They are not executable and have no logic (programmable or otherwise) contained within them.

I'd be intrigued to know how it was unsuccessful.

Can tracker things live in the registry? They won't be cookies as such but might be doing the same job

They can live in the registry, but in those instances they are neither cookies nor caused by cookies. If there are tracking elements in the registry then they have been put there by an application of some form. Perhaps a virus, perhaps a slightly dodgy install process, or (if you use IE) the browser being open to Ax security flaws.

A cookie is nothing more than a string value, in fact go copy and paste this exact bit of JS into your address bar and press return..

javascript:alert(document.cookie);

As you can see, no logic, just a collection of variables.

They are still there, tribal fusion being one of them

All these scans and such dont seem to be removing all they do is identify that they are there.

I clear the history and such via my browser and for some reason as soon as i rescan with AVG they have all came back, ill post the name of the cookies as soon as my scan identifys them.