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Attention: Spyware threat alert!

Why do you point us to another forum where you posted the PM we all received from Darat? :confused:
 
In addition to normal anti-virus software, I run SpamBot, which is freeware, and is pretty effective.

Randy Cassingham over at This is True put a link to Gibson Research in one of his recent ediions. "Shields Up" will run a check on your computer to see how vulnerable you are. I came out of it pretty okay... but I work mostly on a well-service laptop from the office, and my email is Netvigator which has done pretty good in that area.

Shilds Up is a free test if you want to run it....

http://www.grc.com/intro.htm
 
Foolmewunz said:
Shilds Up is a free test if you want to run it....

http://www.grc.com/intro.htm
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That was very informative.

Apparently my computer is so stealthy it doesn't even exist.

Which is only to be expected from a senior NWO operative such as myself.

Not that the NWO exists of course, or that I am an operative within such a non existent organisation. Or senior.

Or that I even exist.

:boxedin:
 
The PM had nothing to do with Spyware, it was more of a SpyCookie which can help track which web sites you may visit, but can't do anything beyond that (No trojans/adware/spyware/etc).
 
First, thanks to JREF for having the privacy policy it does and for taking action on this incident. :clap:

Second, something that's always puzzled me about tracking cookies...If a cookie is just a non-executable text file, how does it track me?
 
web sites track you by observing which cookies your browser sends to them.


ETA: when you send an http request to the server for a page, your user agent will typically send to the server any cookies that it has seen the server send to it, provided they are not expired. So for instance, we send you a session ID cookie when we send you the login result page, and then every time you ask for one of our pages, you send that cookie back. It is a way of maintaining state in an HTTP world which was designed to be stateless.
 
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Terry said:
web sites track you by observing which cookies your browser sends to them.


ETA: when you send an http request to the server for a page, your user agent will typically send to the server any cookies that it has seen the server send to it, provided they are not expired. So for instance, we send you a session ID cookie when we send you the login result page, and then every time you ask for one of our pages, you send that cookie back. It is a way of maintaining state in an HTTP world which was designed to be stateless.
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Thanks for that. I thought web sites accessed my computer to look for relevant cookies. (Hey, stop that snickering! :))

Can I make the following assumptions from your explanation:

A tracking cookie is no different than a non-tracking cookie. What makes it a tracking cookie is what the web site does with it.

And, tracking cookies are used to track only my visits to the offending web site and not any others.
 
Yikes..

Xoftspy software has holes. False alerts from this software comes in from time to time. I know.. I have used it before and didnt like it.
 
Tumblehome said:
Thanks for that. I thought web sites accessed my computer to look for relevant cookies. (Hey, stop that snickering! :))

Can I make the following assumptions from your explanation:

A tracking cookie is no different than a non-tracking cookie. What makes it a tracking cookie is what the web site does with it.

And, tracking cookies are used to track only my visits to the offending web site and not any others.
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what kind of tracking cookies they got? chocolate.. lemon? :D
 
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