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Re: What the *bleep* is Brickfest!? and Flexiclaw, one of my best mechs
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Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:14:25 GMT
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Seriously? You mean cometzone is putting trackers on the dude that use it?
Oh crud, that stinks... phooie... hmmm.... oh well, I use the AOL browser(
finally a good thing about AOL) so i have nothing to worry about, and plus
as to how a company that makes funky cursors would use such information is
pointless to me, unless of course to better create cursors to serve the
users, but they're facing charges so hopefully something'll get done.....
In lugnet.build.mecha, David Eaton writes:
Just a heads up to anyone that visits the site-- Actually, really just the
base level:
http://www.angelfire.com/nj3/mysterio/
Aparently it wants people viewing the page to use Comet Cursors, a known
security risk. It actually doesn't do anything harmful to your PC, but the
program (when using MSIE) will send information about where and when you
browse (ANY page on ANY server) back to the company. It's rather illegal,
and the company is facing charges at the moment against it. Anyway, just a
heads up. Don't install it if you go to this page (unless you WANT them to
keep records of whereever you browse).

DaveE

(FUT geek)



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  Re: What the *bleep* is Brickfest!? and Flexiclaw, one of my best mechs
 
(...) Well-- Comet Systems Inc. is the manufacturer of the software... anyone who downloads it apparently has their history traced when using MSIE. (...) Well, no. AOL is actually a version of MSIE :( (...) Honestly, I don't know (nobody knows for (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) Just a heads up to anyone that visits the site-- Actually, really just the base level: (URL) it wants people viewing the page to use Comet Cursors, a known security risk. It actually doesn't do anything harmful to your PC, but the program (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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