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Spywareblaster & Adaware

Discussion in 'Security and Privacy' started by dishon, 2004/12/19.

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    dishon

    dishon Inactive Thread Starter

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    I've run Spywareblaster 3.2 and it doesn't seem to make any difference. I clean my pc with Spybot and Adaware. I then visit www.suprnova.org and get a tracking cookie. I have Spyware blaster open on the desktop as I don't know if it autoruns when windows loads up. I have "Prevent spyware/tracking cookies" checked under the Internet Explorer setting. I have only tried this under IE6.

    On another note, having cleaned the pc with Spybot and Adaware I tried the Zonelabs spywaredetector online check and it came up with 11 more tracking cookies. I know that spybot and adaware are free, I don't mind paying for something that cleans it all and is upto date, but nothing seems do the job on it's own. You wouldn't want to have to run 2 or 3 virus programs would you? Or is that to simpistic.

    I've tried to word this without sounding critical but I think I failed. I have read a number of posts and they seem happy with either adaware or sypware blaster. Are these the free versions or are they a bought version with more protection.
     
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    TonyT

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    Those cookies are 3rd party cookies.
    Open IE\Tools Menu\Internet Options\Privacy Tab\Advanced Button and put a check in 'overide automatic cookie handling' and put a check next to 'block 3rd party cookies'.
     
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    dishon

    dishon Inactive Thread Starter

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    That worked ta. What's the diffenece between the 3rd party cookies and the tracking cookies Spywareblaster blocks?
     
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    James

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    Better yet... get a decent browser... Firefox (or Opera) which has a much easier to use and more secure cookie-handler.
     
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    dishon

    dishon Inactive Thread Starter

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    Just downloaded Firefox and Thunderbird. Trying to get to grips with one prog at a time though. Heard great things about Firefox.
     
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    TonyT

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    Cookies:
    Cookies can come from the originating website or a 3rd party site. If you go to google.com you get a google cookie. If the google site had an ad that is streamed from a different site such as doubleclick.com, and the html code for that ad includes cookie code, you would get a google cookies and a doubleclick cookie. The doubleclick cookie is a 3rd party cookie, not from the originating siote (google) but from a separate server elsewhere. Webpage html code can reference any web server anywhere. For instance, I could make a webpage at www.my_site.com/index.html and have absolutely no text or images on that page that are hosted on the my_site.com server, I could pull all text and images from someone else's site. (3rd party) This is not illegal, but is frowned upon, or could be illegal if copyrighted text and images are being ripped from the other site. Most sites that have ads on their pages use code that pulls the ads and cookies from a server other than their own, a 3rd party source.

    To have spyware blaster block those tracking cookies you must enable IE protection Restricted Sites. Spyware blaster will put known ad servers in the restricted zone, which by defauly allows no cookies period from a restricted site. The site you referenced above may not be in your restricted sites zone (or the ad server it's code references) and thus you get tracking cookies.
     
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    Welshjim

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    dishon--You do not need to have SpywareBlaster "running ". It functions all by itself without being "turned on ". And you do not scan with it, as you have to do with AdAware and SpybotS&D. But you do have to update its database every ten days or so. Just like AdAware's reference files.
     
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    surferdude2

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    dishon, In order to enjoy the Internet fully, you are nearly required to accept some cookies that you don't want. Most of them aren't bad but you are right to be concerned.

    Here's what I do and it works well for me:

    I use SpywareBlaster and keep it updated. I also use CookieJar in concert with it. CookieJar will handle cookies in the manner you define.

    Those two tools are free, non-invasive, and use no detectable resources.
     
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