ANT SPY

G

Guest

i have installed also the YAHOO anti spy tool and it
seems that it does find anti spies while MICROSOFT one
does not at the same time.
can you please check and advice?

rgds
yaron
 
B

Bill Sanderson

If the ones it finds are cookies or data miners (also cookies), this is an
expected result.
 
A

Alan

Because the Yahoo Toolbar searches for tracking cookies
and the current release of MSAS does not. The reason for
this is that cookies can not harm your system, as they
are data files, not programs.

You DO NOT need a tool to deal with these cookies in the
first place. In IE click on Tools > Internet Options...,
select the Privacy tab, and slide the bar to Medium-
High. This will help with almost 90% of all tracking
cookies. Another thing to look into is running a
firewall such as Zone Alarm Pro, which has cookie
handling. You can set it to block persistant cookies,
block session cookies, block third-party cookies (most
tracking cookies are of this type), disable web bugs, and
remove private header information, to name a few.

The cookies to be most concerned about are those that
store personally identifiable information. By settings
IE's Privacy setting to Medium-High and up, this will
help safeguard against these types of cookies. If you
set it to High, it will block cookies that store
personally identifable information.

Alan
 

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