Cookies

[Mary Delle LeBeau]

Andrew,

I have a cookie washer installed on my computer.  Do you know if
adware does more than that?  I looked on their site, but could not
tell.

Thanks,

Mary Delle

On 30 Oct 2002, at 1:03, Andrew Hicks wrote:

> Colleagues, let us require some proof before we get paranoid.  A couple
> of considerations:
>
> 1)  Cookies would be a lousy surveillance tool since, as this thread has
> already established, they are easily erased.  Commercial "spyware"
> usually uses more sophisticated techniques; our security agencies likely
> do as well.
>
> 2)  A quick check reveals that the URL extreme.mailing.us leads to a
> Belgian consultancy, which, to be sure, is ominous in its own right.
>
> Personally, I am confident that I am not nearly so significant as to
> tempt the FBI to corrupt my Purity of Essence.  However, as I noted
> above, there are "spyware" programs that you would rather not have on
> your computer.  The best free utility to remove them is Ad-Aware,
> available at http://www.lavasoft.de.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Lauren Leighton
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:04 AM
>
> Dear Colleagues: Wayles Browne's query re cookies and Renee Stillings'
> reply
> prompted me to examine my cookies. You might take a look there for one
> item--extreme.mailings.us. It is apparently one of several surveillance
> categories resulting from legislation which empowers government agencies
> to
> track the doings of private persons.
>
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