I am not an expert in this but all I know is that every night when my AVG AntiVirus software runs in the morning it shows two cookies from webtrends  mwebtrendstxt and  mwebtrendstxtmwebtrendstxtbxxxxxx  Webtrends has put something on my computer and AVG AntiVirus says it is an infection and a potentially dangerous object  I visit sites like The New York Times et al and I know they put cookies on my computer but AVG AntiVirus doesnt consider them to be infections or potentially dangerous objects so something must be up  Can you explain why AVG AntiVirus points out the Webtrends cookies  Thanks in advance