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July 15th 2008 04:49

I noticed that some Orble sites trigger my firewall alert for Spyware.
How come this is happening?

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Comment by Anonymous

July 15th 2008 05:10

Yikes -- should not do. Which ones?

We don't have anything on the sites that should even vaguely resemble spyware unless someone has hacked some of them or intserted it into their posts.

Comment by Damo

July 15th 2008 05:52

For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics

Tinyurl is common one

Comment by tlcorbin

July 15th 2008 16:04

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hmmm, I use kaspersky and it can be overly sensitive, but nothing when I went to that URL.

Comment by jon

July 21st 2008 01:48

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Tinyurl is not spyware -- unless I've missed some major changes.

Comment by Damo

July 21st 2008 02:00

For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics

Thanks for answer Jon.
I guess the question is whether it safe.
I can keep firewall blocking it My network does require a high level of security.

I did find two interesting trivia about it:

In 2006, MySpace banned posting any TinyURLs.

As of 2008, Facebook also does not allow the posting of TinyURLs

Comment by jon

July 21st 2008 02:18

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That is interesting. Maybe just because myspace and facebook can't tell what's on the other end of the link.

Actually after a little research it looks like tinyurl.com maybe turning to the darkside in order to generate some cash. I always wondered how they intended to make money.

Evidently they were redirecting people through another webpage where a monitoring cookie is planted which is very cheeky. The cookie is used to compile user behaviour in order to target ads more effectively.

Perhaps they should be considered spyware afterall.

Comment by Damo

July 21st 2008 02:22

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Jon

I only did a check on Wiki so the info is a reliable as the last nerd hissy fit but it may be worth chasing up.

Comment by Jarrah

August 13th 2008 20:55

Back to the Eighties

Hit-counting programs and visitor statistic logs use cookies that some sensetive spy-ware pick up on.

Its logging you, to see if you're a returning visitor and how often you visit.

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