Comment by paxys
Why do you think malware can't steal your cookies when the browser is open (and I assume it is open for most of the day)?
Why do you think malware can't steal your cookies when the browser is open (and I assume it is open for most of the day)?
Because (at least less sophisticated) malware just steals your browser files which contain cookies. I am assuming of course the browser is smart enough not to write cookies to disk if I set it to clear cookies on exit.