Webtrends

[Guest]

First let me say I love this site. It is SO educational. And also very
addicting.
Why?...is this site puttings out Webtrend cookie? Classified as tracking
cookie in SpySweeper. I thought we were fighting this. Is it really
necessary to count us?
Thank You

 

[Robin Walker [MVP]]

First let me say I love this site. It is SO educational. And also
very addicting.
Why?...is this site puttings out Webtrend cookie? Classified as
tracking cookie in SpySweeper. I thought we were fighting this. Is
it really necessary to count us?

Please say what you mean by "this site".

 

[Tom Emmelot]

Hello Robin,

if you go at the moment to the site:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...rosoft.private.security.spyware.announcements
Than you get a tracking Cookie WEBTRENDS !!!
It was not so before!
Also mine Trend detect them!

Regards >*< TOM >*<

Robin Walker [MVP] schreef:

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

Tom - can you try via the links on this page, and see if this still happens?

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/newsgroups/default.mspx

(I've no idea--just thinking out loud!)

 

[Tom Emmelot]

Hello Bill,

yes the same thing webtrends cookie!

Regards >*<< TOM >*<

Bill Sanderson MVP schreef:

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

Well--today is April 1st--maybe the cookie is a regular ordinary cookie just
pretending to be a webtrends cookie--an April Fools joke.

That's a stretch, I know.......

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[Tom Emmelot]

He Bill,

i am no April foul!!
I am born 15 April (so maybe......)
I got to day also the question to fill in a form on the site!!!!
I did anyway!
It is a tracking cookie!

Regards >*< TOM >*<

Bill Sanderson MVP schreef:

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

I took a look at my cookies, as best I could, and can't spot anything with
webtrends name on it, especially not with today's date. Can you find the
actual cookie in question? What does it look like, in terms of file
characteristics, or content?

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[Tom Emmelot]

Hello Bill,


(e-mail address removed)[2].txt

ACOOKIE
C8ctADYyLjE5NC4xOS4xNzUtMjAxMjY0NDcyMC4yOTc3NTMwNQAAAAAAAAABAAAACgAAACHgLkQh4C5EAQAAABMAAAAh4C5EIeAuRAAAAAA-
m.webtrends.com/
1024
794650240
30509560
2353134720
29775305
*

Regards >*< TOM >*<

Bill Sanderson MVP schreef:

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

I'm running a scan with an alternative antispyware app to see if it finds it
on my system. I still can't spot it just looking at a command prompt, but
I'm not sure I know what I am looking for.

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[plun]

Hi Bill and Tom

I can sell my cookies to you...

It´s both a webtrends cookie and a MS cookie
when visting a web based NG

Just to look witin the TIF folder and sort date/time.

Webtrends is no spywarecookie anyway

Running IE7 and of course they passes ;(

regards
plun

 

[Tom Emmelot]

He you AntiCookie PLUN,

the only won that gets the cookie is IE7!!!
Firefox dont!!!
And the spyware scanner of Trend 2006 find him and the Trend Antyspy
dont!!

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/grayware/ve_graywareDetails.asp?GNAME=COOKIE_3012

Regards >*< TOM >*<

plun schreef:

 

[Tom Emmelot]

Hi Plun,

by the way, i just eat a swedisch cookie, my wife bought them at Ikea!

Regards >*< TOM >*<

plun schreef:

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

OK - I changed my cookie handling in IE7 to prompt for 3rd party cookies,
and I get prompted, and have now found it on disk.

Ad-aware did not flag this cookie on a scan, although it did flag a
different webtrends cookie.

http://ondemand.webtrends.com/support/optout.asp

may be relevant--I'll see. Nope--that didn't seem to work.

OK--This is definitely something new, and a 3rd party cookie--but not one
that, for example, Ad-aware, sees as something worth removing.


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Hello Bill,


(e-mail address removed)[2].txt

ACOOKIE
C8ctADYyLjE5NC4xOS4xNzUtMjAxMjY0NDcyMC4yOTc3NTMwNQAAAAAAAAABAAAACgAAACHgLkQh4C5EAQAAABMAAAAh4C5EIeAuRAAAAAA-
m.webtrends.com/
1024
794650240
30509560
2353134720
29775305
*

Regards >*< TOM >*<

Bill Sanderson MVP schreef:

I took a look at my cookies, as best I could, and can't spot anything
with
webtrends name on it, especially not with today's date. Can you find the
actual cookie in question? What does it look like, in terms of file
characteristics, or content?

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

Yeah, but didn't I read that the IKEA is, in fact owned by a foundation,
which is headquartered in NL?
(Much of the furniture in our hose comes from Ikea, although very little of
it was actually produced in Sweden)
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Hi Plun,

by the way, i just eat a swedisch cookie, my wife bought them at Ikea!

Regards >*< TOM >*<

plun schreef:

 

[Tom Emmelot]

Hello Bill,

this is what Trend says after i ask info on that cookie (not NL)

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/grayware/ve_graywareDetails.asp?GNAME=COOKIE_3012

Regards >*< TOM >*<

Bill Sanderson MVP schreef:

 

[plun]

Hi Bill and Tom

Well "MR IKEA" .... really great entrepreneur

http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenew...llionaires-ikea-cx_cn_0323autofacescan04.html

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/BWQ7.html

He started with nothing and built up this giant company.
Hard and tough but "fair play".

Also NO "eating" shareholders IKEA have their own bank

The headquarter is in Sweden and the foundation is a construction
probably to keep the company in "one piece" if and when he dies.
(and also to solve tax problems)

http://www.ikea.com/

He have sons but he is really hard with them about who is going to run
the company in future.

regards
plun

 

[plun]

Hi Tom

Nice

Maybe too much industry made....... home made cookies are better ;

regards
plun

 

[plun]

Hi

Maybe it´s necessary to also name cookies as Ewido
does - Spyware cookies.

Nevertheless a cookie from Webtrends must be a 3rd party cookie and
therefore something is "broken" in IE7. But maybe they have
a "Compact privacy policy"

"Cookonuts".....

regards
plun

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

Not much information, is there? Even on the statistics tab. About all this
says is that it is a third party cookie,