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Ping: Jan Il (re the funny cookie)
Subject: Re: funny cookie "~~local~~", can't control it [a thread from Feb
6-8]
The funny cookie has finally returned. It is named simply:
owner@~~local~~.txt. Ad-Aware found it and says it's a tracking cookie. I
saved a copy, and have copied the contents below:
css
null
~~local~~/
1600
211547264
29799766
959063376
29696769
*
The following is speculative...
I still don't know where it came from. I compared the time of creation of
the cookie with the times of items in my TIF and History, and nothing
coincided exactly. So maybe it's generated locally by my computer, but I
don't know.
Maybe it's generated while a particular webpage is open, in response to some
operation therein. Looking at the time order of creation of my cookies, the
one immediately prior (by 35 minutes) was
(e-mail address removed)/housecall. That's from a trendmicro.com
website that provides an online scan for viruses. I did a full system scan
using their service. The cookie immediately after (by 5 minutes) was
(e-mail address removed).
I'll also note FWIW that I have a local home page for use in IE, which is
mostly a list of frequently visited url's, and a few local links to .html
files on my computer. I also have several Gmail accounts, one of them using
SSL pop3/smtp in OE. Of course Gmail uses a cookie of its own.
Subject: Re: funny cookie "~~local~~", can't control it [a thread from Feb
6-8]
The funny cookie has finally returned. It is named simply:
owner@~~local~~.txt. Ad-Aware found it and says it's a tracking cookie. I
saved a copy, and have copied the contents below:
css
null
~~local~~/
1600
211547264
29799766
959063376
29696769
*
The following is speculative...
I still don't know where it came from. I compared the time of creation of
the cookie with the times of items in my TIF and History, and nothing
coincided exactly. So maybe it's generated locally by my computer, but I
don't know.
Maybe it's generated while a particular webpage is open, in response to some
operation therein. Looking at the time order of creation of my cookies, the
one immediately prior (by 35 minutes) was
(e-mail address removed)/housecall. That's from a trendmicro.com
website that provides an online scan for viruses. I did a full system scan
using their service. The cookie immediately after (by 5 minutes) was
(e-mail address removed).
I'll also note FWIW that I have a local home page for use in IE, which is
mostly a list of frequently visited url's, and a few local links to .html
files on my computer. I also have several Gmail accounts, one of them using
SSL pop3/smtp in OE. Of course Gmail uses a cookie of its own.