nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
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Re: With their track record?
said by rsiggy  :
Billy boy forgets it was his lowly programmers that created the whole "Tracking Cookie" concept and built it into there IE browser.
RFC 2109 would seem to indicate that the "tracking cookie" concept was created by Netscape and put into their browser, first.
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rsiggy
join:2002-04-30
Minneapolis, MN
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Billy boy forgets it was his lowly programmers that created the whole "Tracking Cookie" concept and built it into there IE browser. MS is the biggest exploiter (err... Marketing) company of all. I sure they would prevent every other tracking cookie, key logger and trojan except the ones they placed there or their paying marketing customer placed there.
Firefox and mozilla are a simpler alternative, even then you have to realize only a truly independent Anti-Adware company will not be selective in their identification of adware or tracking cookies.
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Hayward
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But will it act on the variious nefarious things M$ likes to do themselves as "HELPFUL" addons?
Nothing like letting the wolf guard the henhouse 
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GlenQuagmire
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LOL  . Also they will flag any web broswer that is not IE. |
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swiftymc
join:2004-02-15
Mansfield Center, CT
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said by pcdebb :
It'd be a hoot I try to install it, and my current AV or firewall flagged it as being malicious 
No doubt it would...Microsoft would find a way to profit off it via a 3rd party, like report back all thepeople who have sextracker cookies and automaticly signs every email address used in outlook, up for tons of porn email!! |
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pcdebb
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It'd be a hoot I try to install it, and my current AV or firewall flagged it as being malicious
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Kayrac
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Rochester, NH | reply to No_Strings
gates said his home computers have been infected by adware/malware, and now he finally makes software for it  |
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No_Strings
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The OC | And I would trust it completely. |
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