Thanks a lot for sharing this -Alok On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Krishnakumari Parvatha < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all > > 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 a*privacy >> 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 >> > > >
