Archive for August, 2011
Script to delete specific IE cookie
Posted by N. Moseley in Scripting on August 19, 2011
We had a recent need to delete IE cookies from a specific website throughout the organization.
'==========================================================================
' NAME: DeleteIeCookies
' AUTHOR: Nick Moseley , http://t3chn1ck.wordpress.com
' VERSION:
' 1.0 (08/11/2011) - Initial script
' 2.0 (11/10/2011) - Updated to support Win7 vs. WinXP
' COMMENT: Deletes the cookies specified in variable CookieName. To use,
' set variable "CookieName" to what you need to delete.
'==========================================================================
Option Explicit
Const CookieName = "yahoo"
Const ForAppending = 8
Const HKLM = &H80000002
Const EnableLogging = True
Const LogFile = "C:\DeleteIeCookies.log"
' Basic objects
Dim oReg, oShell, oFSO, iCountFiles
Set oReg = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\default:StdRegProv")
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set oFSO = CreateObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
iCountFiles = 0
' Get user folder location for Vista/7 vs. XP
Dim sOS
If oFSO.FolderExists ("C:\Users") Then
sOS = "win7"
Else
sOS = "xp"
End If
'==========================================================================
' Begin log file etnries
'==========================================================================
If EnableLogging = True Then
Dim oVersionLog
If Not oFSO.FileExists(LogFile) Then
oFSO.CreateTextFile LogFile
End If
Set oVersionLog = oFSO.OpenTextFile (LogFile, ForAppending, True)
oVersionLog.WriteLine "Delete Craigslist cookies"
oVersionLog.WriteLine " => Began at " & Date & " " & Time
End If
'==========================================================================
' Get list of folders in C:\Users
Dim oUserFolders, oFolder, colFiles, oUserCookieFolder, oFile
If sOS = "win7" Then
Set oUserFolders = oFSO.GetFolder("C:\Users")
Else
Set oUserFolders = oFSO.GetFolder("C:\Documents and Settings")
End If
For Each oFolder In oUserFolders.subfolders
If sOS = "win7" Then
DeleteFile ("C:\Users\" & oFolder.name & "\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies")
DeleteFile ("C:\Users\" & oFolder.name & "\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low")
Else
DeleteFile ("C:\Documents and Settings\" & oFolder.name & "\Cookies")
DeleteFile ("C:\Documents and Settings\" & oFolder.name & "\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files")
End If
Next
' End logging
If EnableLogging = True Then
oVersionLog.WriteLine " => Total number of deleted cookies: " & iCountFiles
oVersionLog.WriteLine " => Completed at " & Date & " " & Time
oVersionLog.Close
End If
WScript.Quit
Sub DeleteFile (sFolderPath)
If oFSO.FolderExists (sFolderPath) Then
Set oUserCookieFolder = oFSO.GetFolder(sFolderPath)
Set colFiles = oUserCookieFolder.Files
For Each oFile In colFiles
If InStr (oFile.Name, CookieName) Then
'WScript.Echo "file: " & oFile.Name
If EnableLogging = True Then
oVersionLog.WriteLine " => Deleted " & sFolderPath & "\" & oFile.Name
Else
'WScript.Echo sFolderPath & "\" & oFile.Name
End If
oFSO.DeleteFile sFolderPath & "\" & oFile.Name
iCountFiles = iCountFiles + 1
End If
Next
End If
End Sub


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