Avs Says There Are Viruses On Ozarkanglers

[bimsopie]

A cookie on your computer being hacked is not a tracking cookie.

Tracking cookies are cookies that will actually record what web sites you visit and report that info back to the site that created them. Log in cookies will not do that.

I've never found a banner add (flashing or not) try to leave a cookie or any other type of programming such as spyware and malware, unless you click on it.

IE does have cookie management and pop-up blockers.

A good firewall will also prevent malicious malware and spyware from being loaded onto your computer.

The only threats I've had on my computer in the last few years were a couple of tracking cookies, and they did not come from OAF. They were from another site that would not let me do business with them unless I accepted their cookies. Of course, I will no longer be doing business with them since I found out that their cookies are in fact tracking cookies.

As for viruses on this site, I doubt there are any in any of the ads. If there are viruses on OAF, they were uploaded to the site in a picture or video. I don't open all the threads here and of course not all pics and vids etc. I've never found any problems with any of the material here. I'm sure Phils web managment has software to stop that before it gets to the site.

A link to another site could also be a link to a virus infected webpage. One must be careful as to what one clicks on while surfing the web.

Cookies are only little bits of code that a website uses to identify you from all of the other visitors a site gets. Cookies in them selves don't do anything. As a website programmer we use them to track users from one page to the next or we pass session ids within the url for shopping cart systems. Cookies are much prettier. If you see a long bunch of text after a ? in a url that is what I'm talking about. We also use cookies for website analysis. Cookies can not pass info to another domain that did not put the cookie on your machine in the first place. A lot of people get them confused with spyware.

[mchunter]

Lilley, as I'm sure you seen in my last post to BleepingComputer, I've done all that I know to do. Looks like we may not get any more response from them. I guess I'll just have to stick with the iPhone. Also want to say thank you for checking into this and trying to get it worked out.