On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Alok Nag <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >>> >> >> > Great work Navneet!!! Very detailed example!!! thanks, Raghu
