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Data Miners found by AdAware
Name: JohnO Date: November 1, 2004 at 09:56:47 Pacific OS: XPhome, sp2 CPU/Ram: P4 3.0 / 512
Comment:
I use SpyWareBlaster, and up until 10 days or so ago, I could go for a week without AdAware finding anything. Now, though, AdAware is finding 8-10 per day. Both data bases are up-to-date. Has anyone else noticed this?
Name: SmilinJack Date: November 1, 2004 at 10:04:51 Pacific
Reply:
I use AdAware for routine maintenance once a week. The number of data miners the utility finds varies; sometimes a dozen, sometimes half a dozen, other times none. Data miners are essentially cookies. Just delete them and forget it. :)
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Response Number 2
Name: JohnO Date: November 1, 2004 at 15:33:14 Pacific
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I understand that. My question was aimed more at SpyWareBlaster. It doesn't seem to be stopping them like it used to.
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Response Number 3
Name: Solarian Date: November 1, 2004 at 15:52:16 Pacific
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JohnO:
I also use AA and SB. Are you sure your SB is up to date? I haven't noticed any more than the usual amount of data miners.
Solarian
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Response Number 4
Name: JohnO Date: November 1, 2004 at 18:04:07 Pacific
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Dated 10-25-04. I update every Saturday unless I see somewhere that a new update is out, then I download it. Just ran AdAware again and it found two more tracking cookies. So- that's nine today. Way more than I used to get in a week. I just built this thing about two weeks ago, and I've left security at default, but that's how I've always had it on my other comps.
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Response Number 5
Name: JackG Date: November 2, 2004 at 11:34:35 Pacific
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With each update, Spybot and Ad-Aware add more "Data Miners" cookies to their list that they search for. Some of them are quite harmless cookies inserted by ADs on web pages that you use.
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