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Old 19th November 2001 | 02:07
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WhiteSail
 
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Post Spyware

I have been having a purge recently, trying to locate and remove spyware from my computer.

A program that was recommended to me, was called Ad-aware, has been finding these things with regular monotony, and you should be aware, each time you visit PPrune, a cookie called "valueclick" is loaded on your machine.

This is coming up as a spyware cookie (according to Ad-aware).

It is probably harmless, so you shouldn't go into a blind panic and it is probably nothing to do with PPrue directly. More likely to be a result of one of the advertisments on the BB, and lets face it, in order to survive, Danny and Co needs advertising.

But it does go to show, regular monitoring of what you are receiving can pay dividends!

Incidentally, my machine has both firewall and anti-virus software, but as this is a cookie, it by-passes those safeguards!
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