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apiron said:
"a cookie that reports back to the unscrupulous is spyware which
slows down your computer and can communicate keystroke including
password and account numbers.

In a worse case cookies and attached files can let someone take over
your CPU for spam distribution."

I have been using mainframes since before you were born, I know what
I'm talking about raaaaaaaawr raaawwwwr.

At least he had the good idea to realize the errors of his ways and
leave this thread.
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Well this is not an internet security forum where people may be using the narrow (technical) definition of spyware. It is not unreasonable for a computer user to say what he said - plus the reaction by some of the posters was unnecessarily harsh.

One cannot expect everyone to know all these:
http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/documents/DefinitionsJune292006.htm

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Comprehensive 2007 speculation and predictions: http://1001noisycameras.blogspot.com
 
There are session cookies which maintain shopping cart data, etc and there are tracking cookies. Install Ad-aware and scan your computer. The bad cookies will be labeled as such. More than 99% of cookies are not needed. I have IE prompt me when a new cookie wants to be placed on my computer. I always say "no" and to remember this decision and I rarely have website functionality problems. If I do, I erase the decision and allow, but then delete the cookies when I'm done with that site.
 
The OP claimed "expertise" (see his second message) vis-a-vis cookies and
computer security. Unfortunately what he "knew" wasn't true, hence my
response. So in his ignorance he posted a thread that besmirched the
reputation of a well known & reliable vendor. A failure of due diligence,
if not common sense, at the very least.

Bottom line: he deserves the responses he got.

--
When a hammer is your only tool, all problems begin to look like nails.
 
digital_ray_of_light said:
Plus anti-spyware programs flag cookies, so it's not a stretch to
call the flagged cookies "spyware cookies".
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Yes. Adaware, for one, lumps cookies in with the other (purported) spyware that it detects.
digital_ray_of_light said:
Besides, the term
"spyware" is used in a more general-sense these days, not just
strictly referring to executable files/programs.
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The meaning of many computer terms have mutated far from their original definitions. Hacker....

My sympathies to Bob. I've gone off half cocked before , but I usually only get one or two posts (rightfully) calling me on it, not an entire thread.

Wayne
 
No doubt your anti spy ware / malware, anti virus software inc root kit protection & firewall will fill you in on all the details.

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Peter

Persuasive Marketing Systems -
inc Copywriting, Design & Photography
 
DigitalMaven said:
The OP claimed "expertise" (see his second message) vis-a-vis cookies
and
computer security. Unfortunately what he "knew" wasn't true, hence my
response. So in his ignorance he posted a thread that besmirched the
reputation of a well known & reliable vendor. A failure of due
diligence,
if not common sense, at the very least.

Bottom line: he deserves the responses he got.
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That's true, it's the law of "online debate" physics: (dramatic) action = (dramatic) reaction :-)

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Comprehensive 2007 speculation and predictions: http://1001noisycameras.blogspot.com
 
--this is the funniest thing since the canon 40D 3 day kingdom...

Roger.

' Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know'
 
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