I just bet that is all it is, cookies.
Spybot and Ad-Aware are very bad for saying cookies are 'security threats'. I mean, they DON'T really have any personally identifiable information in them, so how are they security threats?
Christopher | 12.19.05 - 8:35 pm | #

Christopher wrote:
>>they DON'T really have any personally identifiable information in them, so how are they security threats?

``In this fashion, thanks entirely to third-party cookie tracking, profiles of your Internet surfing history and habits are built up over time in central databases over which you have no control.''

``If I get enough Web sites to cooperate in using one click-through server and even one of those sites requires registration, offers a contest, or does anything else where users type in names and e-mail addresses, it is only a matter of time before I can associate browser_id 6 with "joe4567@aol.com; Josephine Cunningham; 5 Oak St., Greenville, ME 04441."''
Mark Odell | 12.20.05 - 2:22 am | #