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Sharon
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      8th Jan 2005
I ran the new MS AntiSpyware beta. It found no spyware. Then I ran adaware and it found 37 tracking cookies.

 
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Chan Lee
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      8th Jan 2005
Tracking cookies are a part of how web sites are
designed. They are not spyware. It's just overkill on
Ad-Aware's part. Don't be paranoid. Chances are that if
you are, then your visiting sites you shouldn't be
visiting.


>-----Original Message-----
>I ran the new MS AntiSpyware beta. It found no spyware.

Then I ran adaware and it found 37 tracking cookies.
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Ron Chamberlin
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      8th Jan 2005
Hi Sharon,

In this iteration of the Beta, cookies aren't checked at all.

Ron Chamberlin
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I ran the new MS AntiSpyware beta. It found no spyware. Then I ran adaware
and it found 37 tracking cookies.




 
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Sharon
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      8th Jan 2005

Don't be paranoid. Chances are that if
>you are, then your visiting sites you shouldn't be
>visiting.
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I wasn't being paranoid. I am a computer consultant and programmer. The purpose of a beta test is to find out what a piece of software does and doesn't do. I expected it to check cookies, and when it didn't, I reported it. That is what beta testers do.
 
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>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Sharon,
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>In this iteration of the Beta, cookies aren't checked at all.
>
>Ron Chamberlin
>MS-MVP
>

Thank you Ron, I didn't know that. I was just reporting an unexpected result.
 
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Ron Chamberlin
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      9th Jan 2005
Hi Sharon,
No Problem. It wasn't heavily 'advertised' that they weren't checked

Ron Chamberlin
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>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Sharon,
>
>In this iteration of the Beta, cookies aren't checked at all.
>
>Ron Chamberlin
>MS-MVP
>

Thank you Ron, I didn't know that. I was just reporting an unexpected
result.



 
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