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Alla site has been putting 20 to 23 tracking spyware proggys on my box
everytime I visit it - wont be going there anymore

Cladari
 
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On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:27:48 -0500, "tankdoc" <tankdoc@adelphia.net>
wrote:

>Alla site has been putting 20 to 23 tracking spyware proggys on my box
>everytime I visit it - wont be going there anymore

.....not every cookie is spyware, you know....

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"tankdoc" <tankdoc@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> Alla site has been putting 20 to 23 tracking spyware proggys on my box
> everytime I visit it - wont be going there anymore
>
> Cladari
>

And are you sure you're not confusing tracking cookies with spyware
programs?

A tracking cookie would likely be used to determine how you have a
particular page setup, or the last things you searched for etc.

Many programs (spybot S&D or Adaware) would detect these as bad things, but
they can be useful for maintaining your config on a site.
 
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"Dark Tyger" <darktiger@somewhere.net> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:27:48 -0500, "tankdoc" <tankdoc@adelphia.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Alla site has been putting 20 to 23 tracking spyware proggys on my box
>>everytime I visit it - wont be going there anymore
>
> ....not every cookie is spyware, you know....
>
> --
> Dark Tyger
>

Not only that, but you can always choose to block them.
 
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In article <xNednTcWU_Ovlj3cRVn-tA@adelphia.com>, tankdoc wrote:
> Alla site has been putting 20 to 23 tracking spyware proggys on my box
> everytime I visit it - wont be going there anymore

I installed a fresh copy of Windows, then checked with Spybot and AdAware to
get a baseline, then visited Allakhazam's EQ1 and EQ2 sites several times.

Result: no spyware.

The only thing you'll get from that site is the usual cookies from the
banner ads. They do have banner ads from third party ad networks, and
so those could conceivably try to install real spyware. However, those
same ads will be on many other sites, and so if your computer is so badly
configured or administered as to allow that work, you'll be so infested from
general web surfing that you would not be able to notice anything extra from
ads that happen to be on Allakhazam's pages.

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On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:28:10 GMT, Tim Smith wrote:

> The only thing you'll get from that site is the usual cookies from the
> banner ads. They do have banner ads from third party ad networks, and
> so those could conceivably try to install real spyware.

One advertiser, Falk AG, (don't know if Alla uses them) was compromised
over the weekend, and was installing a worm. So anybody using IE 6 and
looking at a site with one of their banner adds is possibly infected.
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/21/register_adserver_attack/)

Doubt this is what the OP was talking about, but it could be.
 
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On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:27:48 -0500, "tankdoc" <tankdoc@adelphia.net> wrote:

>Alla site has been putting 20 to 23 tracking spyware proggys on my box
>everytime I visit it - wont be going there anymore

Great! More bandwidth for the rest of us.
 
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On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:29:08 GMT, Gary Beldon wrote:

> One advertiser, Falk AG, (don't know if Alla uses them) was compromised
> over the weekend, and was installing a worm. So anybody using IE 6 and
> looking at a site with one of their banner adds is possibly infected.
> (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/21/register_adserver_attack/)
>
> Doubt this is what the OP was talking about, but it could be.

Just for the record, it appears that Alla does in fact use Falk AG as an
ad sponsor, so over the weekend they were potentially distributing a
worm.

So anybody who uses IE6 (except under Win XP SP2), and might have looked
at Alla over the weekend, should do a virus scan just to be sure.
 
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"Gary Beldon" <g.beldon@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:29:08 GMT, Gary Beldon wrote:
>
> > One advertiser, Falk AG, (don't know if Alla uses them) was compromised
> > over the weekend, and was installing a worm. So anybody using IE 6 and
> > looking at a site with one of their banner adds is possibly infected.
> > (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/21/register_adserver_attack/)
> >
> > Doubt this is what the OP was talking about, but it could be.
>
> Just for the record, it appears that Alla does in fact use Falk AG as an
> ad sponsor, so over the weekend they were potentially distributing a
> worm.
>
> So anybody who uses IE6 (except under Win XP SP2), and might have looked
> at Alla over the weekend, should do a virus scan just to be sure.
>
>
that's only for the folk using free service - premium users don't get the
ads so are unaffected, yes?


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