How do I get rid of 97] in Cookies and other website data

When I open Preferences/Privacy and select "Details" under "Cookies and other website data" the first entry which pops up is
97] plug-ins
If I highlight this entry and click remove, It is removed for perhaps 10 seconds, and then re-appears in the list.
1- What is this?
2- How do I get rid of it?
This is clearly a prvacy issue, or Apple would not be listing it in this listing with the associated warning.

Linc Davis wrote:
Log out, then log back in while holding down the shift key after you enter your login password. Keep holding until the desktop appears. That will prevent third-party add-ons from loading. Try again to delete that item.
If you still can't delete it, and you still want to, proceed as follows.
Back up all data if you haven’t already done so. Before proceeding, you must be sure you can restore your system to the state it’s in now. If you skip this step, no one but you will be responsible for the consequences.
Quit Safari if it’s running.
Step 1
Select /Applications/Safari in the Finder and open the Info window. There’s a checkbox in that window labeled “Open in 32-bit mode.” If that box is checked, uncheck it. Close the window.
Hold down the option key and select Go > Library from the Finder menu bar (Lion) or open the Library subfolder of your home folder (pre-Lion). Delete the following items from the Library folder (some may not exist):
Caches/com.apple.Safari
Caches/Metadata/Safari
Saved Application State/com.apple.Safari.savedState
Leave the Finder window open. Try Safari again.
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If it still doesn’t work right, quit, go back to the Finder, and move the following file to the Desktop:
Safari/Bookmarks.plist
Then delete the following items (some may not exist):
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Cookies/Cookies.plist
Preferences/com.apple.Safari.LSSharedFileList.plist
Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
Preferences/com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist
PubSub/Database
Safari
Try again. This time Safari should perform normally, but your settings will be lost. Select File > Import Bookmarks from the Safari menu bar. Import from the bookmarks file you moved to the Desktop. Recreate the rest of your Safari settings. You can then delete the old bookmarks file.
Note: This step will remove your Safari Extensions, if any, and their settings. If you choose to restore them, do so one at a time, testing after each to make sure you haven’t restored the problem.
If you don’t like the results of step 2, you can undo it completely by quitting Safari and restoring the items you deleted in that step from your backup, overwriting any that were created in their place. You don’t need to restore the files you deleted in step 1.
Ok... completed step1 with no change.
went on to "part of "step 2...
I kept the Bookmarks.plist, but then deleted the assortment of safari related Caches and Cookies
Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies
Cookies/Cookies.plist
(I found several entries in Cache, but forgot to write down which ones I deleted ... sorry.)
did not delete any of the preferences or the last two entries in your list above.
Tried again and "the perp" was still there. "Remove all" on the Details tab did not change things...
However, there were now only 2 entries -- the 97] AND my bank's entry (Chase)!
Going back to the main privacy tab and clicking "Remove all Website Data" this time DID remove the last two entries.
=====
Now when I open the details tab, (I run my own webserver as my home page) Safari showed ONLY the cache entry for my server, no cookies.
However, I then noticed something quite intersting.
I left the details tab open and pulled to the side (the joy of having a 27 inch iMac) and naviaged to Apple.com
and then to support and then logged in to here.
As I was doing this. the Details window first showed, "Apple.com" .. Cache, Cookies, Local Storage
but then virtually immediately poped up entries:
doubleclick.net ... Cache
edgekey.net ... Cache
google.com ... Cookies
Very interesting, both from the point of view that "details" was showing me what was happening in "real time."
And the fact that, even with zero external ads, the web site, Apple.com, was inserting entries in the cache for doubleclick.net and edgekey.net. I can "almost" understand the "google.com" cookie, ecept for the fact that the search engine selected in the tool bar is "bing."... as I said "interesting."
With this new "insight" on the Details screen, It may be possible to determine WHERE this 97] actually came from. However, I would still like an explanation of what it actually is.... since the "]" (right square bracket) character is evidently a "special character" for search engines -- google, Yaho and Bing all treat it the same way -- they ignor it.... even when the entire 3 character string is quoted -- "97]" -- the pages returned all are for entries with only 97 in them.

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