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I Thank all :) for valuable information. have a great day ________________________________ From: bhaskar jain <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, November 14, 2009 8:15:59 PM Subject: Re: [twincling] Found Tracking cookie Apart from private browsing feature of many browsers like FF and IE, can use 'Hotspot Shield' if you are really paranoid about privacy. http://hotspotshield.com/ Its a secure vpn. --Bhaskar. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Navneet Thillaisthanam <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Krishnakumari! > >The reason AV software flags tracking cookies is because they are aprivacy >threat to individuals on whose machines they are set. It most often does not >carry anything malicious and there is nothing that needs to be 'disinfected' >from it. It is just like any other cookie that stores information pertaining >your interactions with some website. > >Why then are tracking cookies flagged by AV or how do they differ from any >other normal cookie? Tracking cookies are set surreptitiously into your >browser by some website (lets call it R) that has advertised (or could also be >broken into) in some other website (lets call this A) that you had visited. >Now you visit website B, in which R advertises again, the cookie gets sent >back to R. > >Extend this to a few hundred websites, you can see that the tracking cookies >will allow R to build a profile of your browsing patterns without your >knowledge which is exactly what some laws forbid. Usually, some service >provider would love to have this sort of mechanism to provide 'better' >services to its existing customers or to entice new customers or simply >advertise to people itself. BT Phorm (a behavioural advertisement system) was >flayed by the security world for this same reason - it followed activities of >its customers. > >As a user of the Internet, tracking cookies are better kept with the website >itself and not my system. Delete them! No use quarantining or cleaning it! > >The best way to keep yourself clean from these menace - use Firefox 3.5 with >private browsing for untrusted sites that keeps no cookies after the session. >There might be other web browsers that provide private browsing feature but I >do not work with anything else but FF to know. Call it a frog-in-the-well >mentality! :) > > >Cheers! >Navneet >
