Re: YANDEX cookie

"Fitz" <SENDNOMAIL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
> You don't have to visit the site for a cookie to be placed on your
> computer. All that would need to be done is to visit a site that had a
> link, image, code or some other means to place it there. For example, if
> you visited google.com and they had an image hosted on the suspect site,
> it could cause a cookie to be placed on your computer from the suspect
> site even though you didn't visit the suspect site.
>
> A cookie, in and by itself, is a text file and won't harm your computer
> although they can be used to track your surfing habits..

Thank Fritz good information. I'd have to comment my hosts file to test it
but I'm pretty sure the cookie appeared when I visited my company's site and
I don't have any link to yandex.ru much less narod.ru on it. I could be
mistaken about that since I was trying many different things.

I do know for a fact that that images (.GIF files) along with an html page
appeared in my cache from narod.ru and again I didn't go anywhere near the
site. And this html page contained nothing visible but did contain
javascript along with references to ftp ports and such. I traced one of the
addresses to a company that sells malware removal software. This would
happen as I started my browser and my home page is my company's site.

In any case I did use McAfee software and added entries to my hosts file for
yandex.ru and narod.ru and everything seems back to normal now. Thanks
again for the information.

Tom


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