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Posted by =?Utf-8?B?bGZlc3NsZXI=?= on June 25, 2006, 1:16 pm
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TO: Shenan & Robert ---- I certainly undestand your point(s) of view and
have no quarrel with either of your positions. Obviously both of you are
professionals and I'm just a long time user of MS programs and have a great
deal of respect for MS as I'm what is called "A satisified customer --- for a
very long time".
Maybe Roberts point is the thing for me to consider. If I had never heard
nor seen those cookies and did not know a single thing about them and if they
were not in fact affecting the OS, then why in the h--- should I even worry
about them. Don't know maybe it is just the cultural and society that we
live in and the tremendous amount of people all over the world who want to
harm others by such things as stealing their idenity.
I do not disagree with either position or points made by either of you, and
I thank both of you very much for your time and comments to me.
Last but not least, for now I'm going to make a concerted effort to quit
worring about those things!!!!
--
Larry D
"Robert Moir" wrote:
> lfessler wrote:
> > At this point, great program and I love it EXCEPT FOR ------ Why does
> > it not catch and stop adware, and the other types of low lovel junk
> > that likes to watch what you do on the Internet???????
> >
> > Once a week I crank up my Spy Sweeper and run it and I always come up
> > with 12-15 cookies that are the same each week and in my opinion that
> > type of junk should be stopped by Defender. Before I shut off Spy
> > Sweeper and stopped it from runnning in the background that program
> > always stopped that type of stuff !!!!!!
> >
> > Yes I know it is Beta, but come on MS this is now part of OneCare
> > Live to which I have a paid one year subscription to and Defender is
> > still not catching and stoping these cookies from these very basic
> > annoying types of adware and what ever the other stuff is called.
> >
>
> Well there is a school of thought that says that tracking cookies are very
> different things from spyware, and hence are not really terribly suitable to
> be deleted by a spyware program.
>
> Let me put it this way: If no spyware scanner anywhere ever detected these
> cookies because they all agreed that cookies are not spyware, would they
> still bother you? Or do they bother you because a spyware program nags you
> to remove them?
>
> I'm not trying to start an argument here; I'm not sure I agree with the
> theory I mention above myself, to be honest. But it is a valid point and
> I'm just trying to explain what I was told is the reasoning behind defender
> not touching cookies.
>
> --
> --
> Rob Moir, Microsoft MVP for Security
> Blog Site - http://www.robertmoir.com
> Virtual PC 2004 FAQ - http://www.robertmoir.co.uk/win/VirtualPC2004FAQ.html
> I'm always surprised at "professionals" who STILL have to be asked:
> "Have you checked (event viewer / syslog)".
>
>
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