Thistle
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Is the presence of spyware (2o7) intentional on the forums? There seems to be a major infestation this evening. If it stays I wonder how many will, like me, consider not visiting the forums in future?
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BrendanS
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where and what spyware? No sign of it here, and highly unlikely to be honest.
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Thistle
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My antivirus etc program (Panda) reports a cookie "doubleclick" from the front page and cookies "2o7" from every other page of the forums. Just seems to have started earlier this evening.
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BrendanS
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That's a cookie, not spyware. If you are concerned about it, just block it in your hosts file.
I wonder if it's connected with the forum slowdown that many are commenting on.
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lescargot
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It looks like they may've changed companies, it used to be the "doubleclick" cookie, but I don't seem to be getting that now.
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Thistle
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It's reported by Panda as "Spyware neutralized! Spyware has been detected and eliminated."
What's my hosts file? How do I block things in it? What does this mean / do?
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BrendanS
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Panda is somewhat over reacting then, as it's simply a cookie.
You can see instructions on how to edit a host file in XP here
http://www.kickenhardware.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3006
Simply add the following
127.0.0.1 2o7.net
and 2o7 cookies will be blocked from 'phoning home'
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Thistle
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Brendan
Many thanks. I'll give that a try.
Ian
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petem
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Why would you want to block it? Surely it's just used for ad serving.
Pete
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BrendanS
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Monitoring site usage rather than ad serving is normal role of 2o7
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