[fractus2]

Did you know that you can get a cookie from opening an e-mail? Well, using winme and outlook and ie ver 6.0.2800.1106. A recent one was paypal. Seems like an intrusion but I just delete them. Can these cookies collect and transmit information about you unknowingly?

 

[kelly]

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Originally posted by fractus2 Did you know that you can get a cookie from opening an e-mail? Well, using winme and outlook and ie ver 6.0.2800.1106. A recent one was paypal. Seems like an intrusion but I just delete them. Can these cookies collect and transmit information about you unknowingly?

Cookies don't transmit information--they just sit there with information already in them waiting for someone to request the information. If eBay put the cookie there, chances are no one but eBay is going to know how to get and decipher the info. in that cookie and it tends to be only things like preferences and whatnot, these days.

Someone needs to write a better cookie monitoring program. I've seen a few of them and never been quite pleased with any of them.

 

[Neophyte]

Do a search for Add Buster. It's a program that will tell you whats on your PC and what it is doing. "as far as spy ware". They you can choose to del it. FYi if you use Kaza it has spy ware built in so if u use addbuster to remove it you have to reinstall kaza... but it's a smal lprice to pay for getting that **** of your pC!!

 

[fractus2]

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Originally posted by Neophyte Do a search for Add Buster. It's a program that will tell you whats on your PC and what it is doing. "as far as spy ware". They you can choose to del it. FYi if you use Kaza it has spy ware built in so if u use addbuster to remove it you have to reinstall kaza... but it's a smal lprice to pay for getting that **** of your pC!!

edit: Neophyte, Thanks for the suggestion..., I found junkbuster when I did an adbuster google search. Is that the one? Can't find any hits for add buster.

I used to have the regular Kazaa and Adaware did cause me to reinstall Kazaa every time. Now I've got Kazaa lite and Spybot search and destroy (love that name) and it does not affect Kazaa lite. Though I don't use p2p anymore since I don't want to deal with any legal hassles.

 

[penvzila]

spybotsd

 

[fractus2]

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Originally posted by penvzila spybotsd

already got that penvzila and mentioned above.

 

[wallijonn]

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/websit.../terms-02.html

put in a nice firewall, like Outpost, and you'll find that a cookie is sent back a LOT!. So, here you are trying to remove your name from a spam list, and by deleting it you are confirming your email address.

get mailwatcher. now if it was only automatic on the ISP end...

one problem with MSN, AOL, YAHOO, et. al. that blocks SPAM, is that spammers are using their services to deliver spam. you will therefore not be able to bounce the mail back.

i figure that if they send me a mail message, i should be able to send one back saying that my email does not exist. let them use as much space as possible of their hardrive - it can crash for all i care.

check the life time length of your cookies - some of them are for over 100 years.

Mozilla has a nice cookie utility, as does Galeon and Konqueror. Some Linux email programs will allow email bouncing. (They get a message saying "mail undeliverable - no such user").

 

[fractus2]

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Originally posted by wallijonn http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/websit.../terms-02.html put in a nice firewall, like Outpost, and you'll find that a cookie is sent back a LOT!. So, here you are trying to remove your name from a spam list, and by deleting it you are confirming your email address.

Do you think with dialup you need a firewall also?

I've figured out the hard way about the trying to remove your name from a spam listing. Also having your e-mail anywhere on the net. Now I just get sporadic spam into my pop, which I never open or delete, just right click, add to spam list, and move to a folder.

 

[kwkarth]

Do you all want to be shocked? Go to webroot.com and download the free version of Spy Sweeper. You will be shocked at what info is being gathered about you and your activities. This software far surpasses Ad Aware and every other cookie cutter I've looked at. It currently tracks down more than 10800 different spyware signatures and erradicates them at your command. In the background it will then prevent further infestation automatically. Good stuff!

 

[wallijonn]

thanks, KwKarth

Firewall app: nice backtrace function.

the GUI application interface could use some work - some items can not be seen. I wish that you can resize the borders like you can in Linux (stretch function of window size).

For the most part my system was spy free.

 

[kelly]

$30/year is a bit much to ask.

 

[kwkarth]

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Originally posted by kelly $30/year is a bit much to ask.

Yeah, it's not dirt cheap, but based upon the activity I've seen go on over the past few months WRT upgrading spyware signatures, upgrades, etc. almost every week something new, it's worth it for me. I bought two copies, one for my home PC and one for my wife's.

YMMV.
Cheers!

 

[kelly]

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Originally posted by kwkarth Yeah, it's not dirt cheap, but based upon the activity I've seen go on over the past few months WRT upgrading spyware signatures, upgrades, etc. almost every week something new, it's worth it for me. I bought two copies, one for my home PC and one for my wife's. YMMV. Cheers!

I guess I've just grown accustomed to one-time fees for shareware, even the ones that offer some type of continual service (updates, lists, etc.). A part of me is just not wanting to support this business model even if the product really IS worth it.