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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.

I know they use google analytics because from time to time I see it loading.

Google analytics is a great way to learn more about your site and improve it btw.

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.

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

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).

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.

I had an instance where symantec found a virus, while on my company computer. Only sites i had visited were travian and buzzerbeater. After corporate ran a virus scan, nothing was found though. I am also curious about what this goggle analytics is doing. I have never had a problem on the company computer until this instance.
Makes you wonder.

Edited by ts1442 (12/12/2007 9:24:20 AM CET)

Last edited by ts1442 at 12/12/2007 9:24:20 AM

When I start up my computer, there is some error message. If I click on a new link on this site (say to view my roster or view my economy), a new window pops up which is for various kinds of sites (it changes every time).

I just want to warn other people. I did not click on any ads while I was using the match viewer, but none of this happened until immediately after the match viewer froze on me.

I liked this game, but I'm going to have to vacate my team.

It sounds like your browser has been hijacked by spyware. BB doesn't install anything on your computer, the only thing you need other than a browser is the adobe flash player, which is also virus and spyware free ( assuming you download and install it from the adobe site ).

I recommend you use Ad-Aware and check to see what the problem is ( (http://lavasoft.com/) ). Choose Ad-Aware free and install that. That usually gets most common hijacks and spyware.

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The google-analytics link is used to gain aggregate information about the browsers people use on the site and how they browse the game. We store no personal information about browsing habits and don't profile any users. The information is solely useful for us to help improve the site browsing experience and pinpoint usuability issues.

We wouldn't use anything on the site that we're no comfortable with ourselves. The dev team are users as well, and we don't want spyware on our computers, so there's no reason for us to do it to anyone using the site. Pissing off our users is not something we would do - it's not in our interest.

I'll second the advice of using Ad-Aware.