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8844.3 in reply to 8844.1
Date: 12/2/2007 1:15:50 PM
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It's not this site. You'd probably had that virus/trojan a long time ago. It just made it's attack on that particular time.

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Date: 12/4/2007 2:00:48 AM
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It's not this site. You'd probably had that virus/trojan a long time ago. It just made it's attack on that particular time.

..probably during the pause after 1st quarter while checking that porn site buddy.
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Date: 12/4/2007 8:38:30 AM
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I have something called spybot installed on my computer, and while on this site i get spybot popups saying that there is a URL that is known to be malicious, and of course i deny all of them, i never had any problems with this site before or after i have installed spybot, but could there be some kind of spyware on this site that has been illegaly put here. It seems improbable in my mind,but i don't think spybot would lie. This is a very interesting topic.

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Date: 12/4/2007 4:45:31 PM
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I know they use google analytics because from time to time I see it loading.

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Date: 12/4/2007 9:22:48 PM
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Google analytics is a great way to learn more about your site and improve it btw.

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Date: 12/5/2007 1:52:10 AM
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Google analytics is a great way to learn more about your site and improve it btw.


I'm sure it is, but is it not technically spyware? Maybe I'm wrong... I really don't know what exactly spyware is or what exactly google analytics does.

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Date: 12/5/2007 2:05:34 AM
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Google analytics: http://www.google.com/analytics/

Basically it tracks where users come from (what search engine, cost-per-click advertising, website link etc.) and what pages they visit. I don't believe it installs any software/spyware on the users computer.

Tons of sites on the web use it to evaluate their online marketing efforts.


Steve

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8844.11 in reply to 8844.10
Date: 12/5/2007 7:29:19 AM
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Exactly, but it is not only used to evaluate you online marketing efforts, but also to evaluate how people click on your side. For instance, you can use it to learn which pages are working as supposed, and which are not (i.e. learn how to improve the site).

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Date: 12/12/2007 8:36:03 AM
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Google analytics: http://www.google.com/analytics/

Basically it tracks where users come from (what search engine, cost-per-click advertising, website link etc.) and what pages they visit. I don't believe it installs any software/spyware on the users computer.

Tons of sites on the web use it to evaluate their online marketing efforts.


Steve


Well, I don't know. Tons of sites use it but today, while on the BB forum i got the message from Symantec that this file has been corrupted. On my company pc.

cmdow.exe in system32 folder

It has not happened to me in years.

If it is supposed to be normal, then it is ok with me. If not it worries me a bit.

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