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Spyware In the Release Candidate Viewer !! WTF ???
Hok Wakawaka
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04-16-2009 16:24
Tonight for the first time I found tracking cookies in my SL Viewer.

Specifically: in Path: C:\USERS\YOU NAME\APPDATA\ROAMING\SECONDLIFE\BROWSER_PROFILE\

The cookies are: COOKIES.TXT[.go.com/]
COOKIES.TXT[.statcounter.com/]
COOKIES.TXT[.doubleclick.net/]
COOKIES.TXT[.atdmt.com/]

These cookies track and report all of your on-line activites -- the places on the internet that you go.

I am very conscientious about PC security and have a multi-layered up-to-date security set up.

I WANT TO KNOW HOW THESE COOKIES GOT INTO MY SL CLIENT????

I suspect that this will not be the last you hear of this.

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04-16-2009 16:28
From: Hok Wakawaka

I WANT TO KNOW HOW THESE COOKIES GOT INTO MY SL CLIENT????
From a web page displayed in someone's web tab in their profile, most likely.
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Pserendipity Daniels
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04-16-2009 16:29
They sneaked on to your machine over the interweb . . .

Pep ( . . . through those tubes!!!)
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Nyoko Salome
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04-16-2009 16:32
:0 do you have cookies turned off under the sl preferences? if you do and they still got written, then yah, that would be kinda borken.
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Hok Wakawaka
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04-16-2009 16:34
From: Argent Stonecutter
From a web page displayed in someone's web tab in their profile, most likely.


doh

Yup. Someone just reminded me of that on the SL Ex forums.

I was so shocked to see these malicious cookies in my client I stopped thinking :-O

Thanks
Hok Wakawaka
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04-16-2009 16:36
From: Nyoko Salome
:0 do you have cookies turned off under the sl preferences? if you do and they still got written, then yah, that would be kinda borken.



Um.....doh (again)

Turn off cookies in my SL preferences??

Now they tell me :-)

Thanks for the info I didn't know about that option. [O/o]
Hok Wakawaka
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04-16-2009 16:42
From: Pserendipity Daniels
They sneaked on to your machine over the interweb . . .

Pep ( . . . through those tubes!!!)


I thought the correct technical term was "innerrnets-tubeses."

Learn something new everyday :-)


btw I hope everyone has seen this on the innertube

now 25 MILLION HITS on the Viral Video charts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

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Jesse Barnett
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04-16-2009 16:49
From: Nyoko Salome
:0 do you have cookies turned off under the sl preferences? if you do and they still got written, then yah, that would be kinda borken.

Yep, nothing nefarious going on here. It is there in the web tab of preferences along with buttons to clear cookies and clear browser cache.
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Jesse Barnett
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04-16-2009 16:53
From: Hok Wakawaka
btw I hope everyone has seen this on the innertube

now 25 MILLION HITS on the Viral Video charts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

.

Yep Susan. I saw it a few days ago. She is awesome and talks are underway to sign her to Simon's label.
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Newfie Pendragon
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04-16-2009 17:22
From: Hok Wakawaka
I was so shocked to see these malicious cookies in my client I stopped thinking


Ah no. You kinda stopped thinking before that, as cookies in of themselves are not malicious. They might be used for distateful purposes, but they do not to anything malicious.

You may now resume your thinking, hopefully this time with a better understanding of the nature of the 'threat'.


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04-16-2009 19:47
From: Newfie Pendragon
Ah no. You kinda stopped thinking before that, as cookies in of themselves are not malicious. They might be used for distateful purposes, but they do not to anything malicious.

You may now resume your thinking, hopefully this time with a better understanding of the nature of the 'threat'.


- Newfie

ah but what about threat to privacy? =)

(I always find cookie paranoia funny though, Firefox has a great set of options
that I can cause all but certain sites cookies to be dumped on close.

check accept cookies from sites,
add any sites you don't want cookies wiped for to the the exceptions list as allow,
change the keep until drop down to 'I close Firefox"
make sure that cookies are NOT checked on the private data 'settings' button just below it.

PS the allow list only reads top level names though, so for instance secondlife.com, and forums.secondlife.com are the same thing to it.)
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Jesse Barnett
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04-16-2009 20:19
Or just go with Chrome where everything is sandboxed and then you only have to worry about Google :p
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