Blacksheep, you wrote :
PPRuNe is one source, as I've detected spyware after logging on and only visiting PPRuNe. The Java script behind the banner adverts can penetrate a firewall and commercial firms spy all the time, searching for e-mail addresses
You can examine the JavaScript on our web pages, just click on the View/Source menu item. If you find any spyware in our JavaScript then
let me know.
[email protected]
JavaScript embedded in HTML and executed by your browser has :
No capability to read or write files on your PC, except for Cookies from the site the JavaScript came from.
No access to file system information.
It can't execute programs or system commands on your PC.
It can't make network connections to other computers except to the machine from which it was downloaded.
BTW, there is no such thing as "Java Script". Java and JavaScript are two very different programming languages. Java was developed by Sun Microsystems, JavaScript was originally developed by Netscape.
---Mik
[ 20 August 2001: Message edited by: PPRuNe Dispatcher ]