Author Topic: What's up with the cookies? (Read 234 times)

1K3 · « **on:** August 08, 2005, 05:20:13 PM »

What's up with the cookies? Not crunchy? too soggy?

Too many threads are being closed with bad cookies.

Sandman · « **Reply #1 on:** August 08, 2005, 05:21:44 PM »

Skuzzy is fighting the good fight against spyware.

He's here to protect us from our own ignorance.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #2 on:** August 08, 2005, 05:38:04 PM »

I have taken a more pro-active stance on this as it is a serious problem which effects our product and service.

Sandman · « **Reply #3 on:** August 08, 2005, 05:51:21 PM »

Are there some tools available so that we can identify and avoid posting bad links?

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 08, 2005, 05:52:12 PM »

Skuzzy is the cookie monster!!!:D

Chairboy · « **Reply #5 on:** August 08, 2005, 05:58:12 PM »

Cookies themselves are fine. 3rd party cookies are annoying, but nobody should be using a browser that doesn't prevent them. The killer is the places that try to install bad stuff on your system. Everyone here SHOULD be patched up to the latest to reduce risk.

If you haven't because you're the type that shakes his head while thoughtfully chewing a piece of straw and says 'I don't trust that there Microsoft. If this ex-pee operating system is so darn good, then the shipping version should be fine for old cletus here', then you're in trouble.

wasq · « **Reply #6 on:** August 08, 2005, 06:00:22 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
Are there some tools available so that we can identify and avoid posting bad links?

I think Ad-Aware tells you if you have any malicious cookies. Run it once before clicking on the link and once after. If you see an increase --> trouble.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #7 on:** August 08, 2005, 06:02:50 PM »

Sandman, I have some tools I have created to help identify problem sites, but they are not for the typcial consumer.

However, you can setup IE to tell you when a site is a potential problem. I wrote this up as an aid for IE users to help secure IE. There is a section which discusses how to handle the setup for security and IE does show when it is blocking cookies.

After that, you just have to know the domains which are bad, such as 'doubleclick.net'.

And Chairboy is right. Cookies, in of themselves, are not bad. Some sites have just abused them.