Spyware
Maybe I am being paranoid.
If you go to the Gibson site at grc.com you can follow the links to lavasoft and download their ad-aware programme. This detects spyware loaded onto your machine at web sites which then pass information on you and your machine/web site visits back to the site. It has a list of known spyware.
Now the bad news - I found 2 spyware cookies on my machine yesterday. I deleted them, logged on - clean. Came straight to pprune, checked again - back.
The cookies are:
administrator@doubleclick[1].txt
administrator@valueclick[2].txt
If someone can explain the purpose of these cookies and the implications I would be grateful. I am obviously picking them up either from the ISP I am using or here.
I would recommend the grc site for this link and his own patchwork file which locates known trojan files used to hijack/control your machine remotely.
[This message has been edited by ORAC (edited 13 April 2001).]