I've been reading an alarming article in 2600 "How to Regain Privacy on the Net" which mentions web bugs. There doesn't seem to be much defense against these little critters. I've checked http://freshmeat.net but there doesn't seem to be much there. Is there any software I can use in Linux to keep these web bugs off my computer, or to detect these bugs if they are already in it ?
ed orphan wrote:
I've been reading an alarming article in 2600 "How to Regain Privacy on the Net" which mentions web bugs. There doesn't seem to be much defense against these little critters. I've checked http://freshmeat.net but there doesn't seem to be much there. Is there any software I can use in Linux to keep these web bugs off my computer, or to detect these bugs if they are already in it ?
I have not looked into this program but it deals with Web Bugs and works on Linux.
http://www.guidescope.com/home/
Let us know what you find out, Bill
On June 1, 2002 11:00 am, ed orphan wrote:
I've been reading an alarming article in 2600 "How to Regain Privacy on the Net" which mentions web bugs... Is there any software I can use in Linux to keep these web bugs off my computer
KMail from KDE 3.0 (and possibly earlier versions) has a web bug blocker. See Settings > Configure KMail..., Security settings, General tab. "Allow mails to load external references from the net" is disabled by default. The pop-up help for that control gives a little information about web bugs.
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Glen Ditchfield wrote:
On June 1, 2002 11:00 am, ed orphan wrote:
I've been reading an alarming article in 2600 "How to Regain Privacy on the Net" which mentions web bugs... Is there any software I can use in Linux to keep these web bugs off my computer
KMail from KDE 3.0 (and possibly earlier versions) has a web bug blocker. See Settings > Configure KMail..., Security settings, General tab. "Allow mails to load external references from the net" is disabled by default. The pop-up help for that control gives a little information about web bugs.
Essentially, for those who don't have kmail loaded, it's reading an HTML formatted mail (always a bad idea :-) ) and the HTML e-mail loads external images not attached to the e-mail. Obviously, by tracking access to that image, they can tell who's read the e-mail and from where.
KMail can handle it, and oddly, so can my mail reader of choice, Pine :-)
Scott
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