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Word Tracking Bug Demo and Remover

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Alex Halderman has created a page about the Word tracking bugs I described yesterday. He offers an example Word tracking bug for you to examine, and a scanner program that can find and remove Word tracking bugs on your computer.

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4 responses to “Word Tracking Bug Demo and Remover”

  1. joe

    Are there any resources you could recommend about the IFRAMEs stuff? That’s new to me…

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  2. a little ludwig goes a long way

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    geekdiy.com — great site for fun geek projects. SID in Seattle. Crap how did I miss this, this would have been fun to attend. “Brian analyzes traffic trends”: http://www.brianstorms.com/archives/000365.html. Perhaps the web is becoming less US-centri…

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  3. Peter Roozemaal

    I am quite unhappy that OpenOffice (at least version 1.0) supports this web bug too.

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  4. Jean

    A good way to stop the Word tracking bug is to install a firewall (ZoneAlarm or other) that controls alerts you software that is not supposed to connect to the net request a http connection

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