a realted question on dataminers

[Guest]

Thanks Andre. Yes I did run a deep scan while in SM. A
somewhat related question: once these damn things invade a
person's PC and for an example gather data from that PC (in
the case of a dataminer), isn't it too late to remove them
once detected,i.e., surely it doesn't take long for them to
collect the data they want to take?

Regards,
Mike Kelly.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Data miners are cookies. The name is misleading. Here's a pretty good
tutorial on cookies:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/cookie.htm

What you are looking for is on pretty nearly the last page-6, as I recall.

Note the links on the final page--lots of good stuff in them, too.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

And beta 1 does not scan for cookies/dataminers, hopefully by beta 2.