Tracking Cookies

Reply #5

Pick — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:09:29 GMT

There is no reason to be alarmed with served by advertising cookies. Even Adaware rates it as a low risk cookie. It can't and doesn't contain any personal information about you. I've had it since it's inception and haven't got one high risk cookie yet, and I go to many known crack sites just to test my firewall protection. I can understand why George is a little cautious with anyone or any site tracking anything on his computer without his knowledge. But you have to remember one thing, they ca... [ More ]

Reply #4

Todd — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:03:52 GMT

No, Lottery Post is not tracking user's activities. Sedertree, before posting an inflammatory message like that you should PM me.Advertising.com, who serves our banner ads, is one of the biggest advertising companies on the Internet, serving tens (maybe hundreds) of millions of ads per day on thousands of web sites. Like all advertisers, they attempt to place a cookie anywhere their ads are served, in order to determine (in aggregate) how their ads are shown and clicked. It helps them communi... [ More ]

Reply #3

emilyg — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:16:06 GMT

todd - what's up

Reply #2

Calscorp — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:50:16 GMT

Thankf for the info.

Reply #1

Sedertree — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:19:21 GMT

ArchiveData(auto-quarantine- 26-08-2003 08-17-05.bckp)======================================================TRACKING COOKIE obj[0]=File : c:\documents and settings\bayesoft\cookies\bayesoft@servedby.advertising[1].txt

Tracking Cookies

Sedertree — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:15:54 GMT

Todd,I installed AdAware 6.0 yesterday.I couldn't figure out where I was picking up the data miner tracking cookie from. Well I've figured it out. It is coming from lotterypost. I've repeated the process numerous times. Cleaning w/ AdAware, Visiting Lotterypost, Cleaning w/AdAware, Lotterypost.... etc.Your cookies are considered spyware by AdAware and are tracking your users internet activity....../George