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| | Document Web Bugs Privacy Advisory |
 | | Web bugs are made possible by the ability in Microsoft Word of a document to link to an image file that is located on a remote Web server. | | | The embedded HTML with embedded Web bugs could also be used to track how many times a song is played and by which computer, identified by its IP address. | | | When the document is opened, the Web bug will show the host name of the computer that fetched the image. |
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http://www.willgrowconsulting.com/sub24.htm
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| | Web Bugs Within Web Pages |
| | Web Bugs should indicate what data is being collected from the user, how it will be used and with what other data bases it will be combined with and if a cookie is associated with a Web Bug. | | | Web Bugs in your email, as discussed in our last article, perform a slightly varied set of functions than Web Bugs located in web pages, but all Web Bugs share essentially the same purpose. | | | Web Bugs should be visible on a web page and easily identifiable by a user. |
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http://www.infinisource.com/features/web-bugs2-pf.html
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| | BBC News SCI/TECH Web bugs spying on net users |
| | Unlike banner ads that collect comparable information, web bugs are more controversial as they cannot be detected without studying the source data of a webpage or using special software. | | | The web bugs can dig out details about your computer, and work best together with cookies - files that log what you do on a website - and can interrogate them to find out more about you. | | | Web bugs are hidden graphics embedded in web pages primed to collect information about visitors to the site. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1493152.stm
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| | PCWorld.com - Surfers Warned About 'Web Bugs' |
| | A Web bug is a small file, typically a graphic object such as a GIF file, that monitors browsing behavior without the user's knowledge. | | | Web bugs can collect information such as the computer's Internet protocol address, the time the page was viewed, and previously set cookie values. | | | Usually, Web bugs cannot be detected by users, because they match the color of the page's background and are very small. |
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http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,58203,tk,dn081501X,00.asp
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| | Web bug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Disabling "third party" cookies will help prevent web bug users from linking together information on what email you read with the different web sites you visit, and thus from building a bigger personal information dossier. | | | Some email software is designed to prohibit the display of remote graphics in HTML email by default, and thus prevent traditional web bugs from working. | | | For example, assume there is a web bug named |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_bug
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| | [Lf] Web bugs ? |
| | Web bugs can "talk" to existing cookies on a computer if they are both from the same Web site or advertising company, such as DoubleClick, which uses bugs and dominates the online advertising market. | | | Today, I'm blind sided by a new revelation that web bugs, 1-pixel transparent gif images, are being used by online advertisers to track you and me on the net: which sites, when we visit them, in what order we visit--all the items that are nobody's business by our own. | | | The Web bugs do the tactical work, the cookies are running the strategic operations, and DoubleClick is waging war by matching up your online activities with Abacus Direct's mail order lists so your online and offline habits are synched. |
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http://www.amrad.org/pipermail/lf/2000q3/000644.html
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| | BBC News SCI/TECH Pixel-high privacy spy |
| | The web bugs can mine information about who owns the site you are surfing from as well as details about your computer such as what data is held in the Windows registry. | | | The bugs may be invisible to surfers but as far as a computer is concerned they are just another image. | | | The "web bugs" hide computer codes behind images only a pixel in size to gather information about surfing habits. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/842624.stm
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| | Bugnosis FAQ |
| | Before Bugnosis, the only way to find a Web bug was by viewing the HTML source code of a Web page and searching for IMG tags that match up with cookies stored on the user's computer. | | | No. Web bugs only enable multiple sites to share information that they have collected using some other means, like enticing the user to enter the information into a Web form. | | | The IP address of the computer that fetched the Web bug. |
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http://bugnosis.org/faq.html
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| | Web bugs / Tracking |
| | Yet the sort of Web bug coding Smith found DoubleClick using on various porn and health sites is ideally suited to linking a person s name to his or her computer. | | | They are computer code, nearly identical in structure to the code for a picture or a banner ad. | | | If DoubleClick ever chooses to merge the data from the Web bugs and cookie files with its existing consumer dossiers, it will create a database of unprecedented depth. |
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http://c0vertl.tripod.com/text/webbugs.html
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| | WEB BUGS AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE INTERNET |
| | I think this software would be more effective against web bugs than the other two. | | | Also, the most dangerous forms are script-based bugs that can go and take any document from the user’s computer without them ever knowing it. | | | Other forms of the web bugs are called “executable bugs.” These forms can install files onto a user’s hard drive and retrieve information anytime they are online. |
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http://www.cs.rockhurst.edu/seminars/CS2002/jenkins.htm
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| | Web Bugs Erode Privacy |
| | This bug enters a computer through a Web-based application such as instant messaging or in a bulletin board. | | | While an audience watched, the bug then transferred all of the stolen addresses to a colleague's computer. | | | This application is downloaded on a computer unknowingly, like a Trojan horse, it then resides on a user's computer -- even the hard drive. |
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http://privacynotes.com/privacy_web_bugs.html
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| | SpeedGuide.net Broadband Community - Web Bugs |
| | I just read about web bugs www.bugnosis.com I replied to a post in the general page but it should be here in security. | | | Some of these web bugs are very important as they are used in Software Author's Affiliate programs. | | | Its my computer, I can control whatever I want on it. |
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http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=81661
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| | Web Bugs |
| | Some of the information that is gained when a web bug is "activated" (which occurs when a page is viewed with graphics turned on) includes: | | | An example of a web bug is shown below. | | | This is certainly true (it enables DoubleClick to better target ads and thus charge more for advertising), but this fact has nothing to do with web bugs - DoubleClick already gathers that data via it's banner ads and does not need web bugs to do this at all. |
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http://www.leave-me-alone.com/webbugs.htm
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| | Web Bugs are Looking at YOU! |
| | Web Bugs take advantage of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) writing that create small transparent GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) images whose original purpose before Web Bugs proliferated on the Internet was to serve as an aid in correctly positioning images. | | | Often references say the best way to spot a Web Bug is to search for any image that is prefaced by any URL in the HTML writing. | | | One method to solve a twitchy web page is to insert a transparent GIF. |
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| | E-Commerce News: News: Activists Assail 'Web Bugs' |
| | Web bugs, or clear GIFs, are images that are intentionally embedded in the software | | | code of Web pages or HTML-enhanced commercial e-mails in order to transmit information to a remote computer when the page is viewed. | | | Visitors to the site to be able to opt-out of any data collection by Web bugs |
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| | SpywareInfo > Web bugs |
| | These graphics are invisible to anyone without software that detects them or without reading the source code of the web page. | | | <--- There's a web bug right there; a one pixel by one pixel transparent gif graphic that's impossible to see. | | | In other words, graphics that are deliberately hidden from the surfer. |
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| | Privacy group shines light on Web bugs CNET News.com |
| | The bugs can also be matched with cookies, electronic files stored on a PC that can contain personal information such as name and e-mail address. | | | "Our goal with the software is to reveal how Web bugs are tracking all of us on the Internet and to get companies to 'fess up' about why they are using them," Richard Smith, the Privacy Foundation's chief technology officer, wrote in his privacy tip sheet. | | | Idcide, WebWasher, Adsubtract and Intelytics offer products that can either prevent Web sites from placing cookies on their computers or block Web bugs altogether. |
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http://news.com.com/2100-1023-268055.html?legacy=cnet
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| | Internet Tips: Free Tool Nabs Web Bugs |
| | One threat to privacy that you may not have considered is a little-known Web design trick called the Web bug. | | | If you use ad- or cookie-blocking software, you may already be able to block Web bugs. | | | The program is currently available only as an Internet Explorer 5. |
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http://pcworld.about.com/magazine/1911p182id62265.htm
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| | Web Bugs |
| | Also important is that users should be able to "opt-out" from any data collection done by Web bugs. | | | Finally, nobody should use the Web to collect information from Web pages of a sensitive nature. | | | Actually, in this context, when I use the word “bug,” you should think of a little surveillance device. |
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http://www.mgrossmanlaw.com/articles/mhtl/webbugs.htm
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| | Geek.com Geek News - Fighting Web Bugs |
| | Bugnosis installs automatically when you download it from the site, and it's supposed to put a "cute bug" icon (you can customize your "cute bug" in the "Web Bug Gallery") in your IE toolbar, which will blink when the software detects possible Web bugs. | | | The software runs "a battery of tests on each suspicious graphic on a Web page when you first open it and calls an "uh-oh" sound on your computer when it detects possible Web bugs (the Bugnosis website says, "Bugnosis may identify a Web site hit counter as a Web bug") on a website or e-mail. | | | A window then opens with details of the suspicious images, and the hidden pixels are identified by "cute bugs" where they occur on the page. |
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http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2001june/gee20010608006281.htm
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| | TERRY"S World: Web Page Resources |
| | Web Authoring - Advanced HTML tips at Builder.com for different platforms and versions of Web browsers includes tables, white space, and avoiding hidden bugs. | | | Web Page Design for Designers taming the electronic page, graphics and palettes. | | | You might want to visit friends and stuff which has a few tips on where to start to make a web page before exploring the resources. |
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http://www.webwizzes.com/webstar.htm
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| | Web Bugs |
| | Web bugs are usually a small image (1 X 1 pixels) designed as small as possible to avoid detection, and clear to make them appear invisible without the correct software to detect the web bugs. | | | If you're worried that your computer has been infected with spyware or you want to know when you have run into a website with a web bug attached then try our FREE spyware detection tool to allow you to know when someone is gathering information about you. | | | Another possible term for a web bug would be web beacons. |
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http://anti-spyware-review.toptenreviews.com/spyware/web-bugs.html
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| | Trickybit Read Receipt Demo |
| | First -- to the best of my ability to insure it, your e-address and other information that passes through my system will not be made available to anybody else. | | | UPDATE, October 2005: Since this web page was first authored, this technique has become much more well known. | | | (As mentioned above...) Since this web page was first authored, this technique has become much more well known. |
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http://www.mackraz.com/trickybit/readreceipt
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| | What is Web beacon? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | Used in combination with cookies, a Web beacon is an often-transparent graphic image, usually no larger than 1 pixel x 1 pixel, that is placed on a Web site or in an e-mail that is used to monitor the behavior of the user visiting the Web site or sending the e-mail. | | | You are in the: Small Business Computing Channel | | | A Web beacon can be detected by viewing the source code of a Web page and looking for any IMG tags that load from a different server than the rest of the site. |
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| | Slashdot Fox Says Web Bugs = Virus Risk |
| | the trick is web bugs are usually images by drenehtsral (Score:2) Thursday January 04, @06:56PM | | | If users tolerate applications retrieving untrusted data from the net without notification or permission, we could see even worse abuses like this in the future. | | | Even companies you might consider legitimate have been doing this. |
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http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/04/1543202.shtml
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| | WinMag |
| | Later, as you browse through Web sites, those sites may contain ads that are hosted at the bug planter's Web site. | | | In most popular e-mail readers, the message appears very much the way it would in your browser, complete with graphic images that are retrieved from a Web site over the Internet. | | | Dave Methvin is a developer at PC Pitstop, a web site that automatically diagnoses and fixes common PC problems. |
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| | Companies - Specializing - Web Bugs Software |
| | Specializes in: basic, support, bugs, technical, computers, design, programming, hardware, help, advice, info, visual, information, virus, updates, perl, software, computer | | | Specializes in: windows, javascript, open source, freeware, downloads, guru, linux, web editor, open, development, technology, download, desktop notes, bugs, headlines, edit, forum, opensource, programming, free, html, free software, editor, freesoftware, java, hacker, software, postit, forums, notes, news, hackers | | | We offer computer help for everyone in our support forum. |
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| | Blocker Pop Up lists reviews several pop up blocker! |
| | Scan your computer for harmful spyware that may be putting your privacy at risk. | | | Do you get Error messages, or is your PC simply not working the way its supposed to. | | | a Google Toolbar for your web browser, providing quick access to the Google search engine, PageRank information for a site, online maps, and a spell. |
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| | Web bugs thrive like cockroaches The Register |
| | Web bugs, objects such as frames or images, are imbedded on a Web site and cause part of the Web page to be retrieved from a different site. | | | Cyveillance tried to spin the results of the survey to suggest Web bugs may undermine building a good reputation for a brand but we reckon the more interesting point to note from the survey is how widely used Web bugs are. | | | These web bugs can be used to verify email addresses and collect IPs of users, although a while back we ran an article where Register readers, you devious lot, suggested far more nefarious uses for Web bugs. |
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/15/web_bugs_thrive_like_cockroaches
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| | Web Email email web bugs |
| | When you're seeking high-class information on email web bugs, you'll find it difficult sorting out quality information from unadvised email web bugs submissions and proposals so it is sensible to know how to moderate the information you are presented with. | | | Now we would like to offer you some advice which we believe you should use when you are searching for information on email web bugs. | | | You may have found the best sourced advice regarding email web bugs. |
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| | Web Bugs – Here Are the Rules The Register |
| | The Network Advertising Initiative, which comprises some of the internet's leading advertising and ad technology companies, yesterday said it has finalized a set of best practices for the use of web bugs. | | | If the bug can be tied to personal data, such as via a cookie or an email address, and it will be disclosed to third parties, then there needs to be an opt-out for the user, but only when the disclosure is for purposes "unrelated" to the reason the data was collected. | | | The NAI rules, which represent the industry's attempt to self-regulate, ask companies using these techniques to provide a notice of web bug use that says what the bugs are used for and what data is transferred to third parties. |
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/29/web_bugs_here
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| | 'Web bugs' track personal page visits |
| | The monitoring technology is invisibly added to the Web pages as part of elements that the sites offer to help create the Web page. | | | The Web bug technology, which is also known by such terms as "clear gifs" and "Web beacons," now appears on 18 percent of personal pages, compared with less than 4 percent of pages overall and 16 percent of home pages for major companies. | | | When users place the AOL ad on their pages, they also get a Web bug that passes information to Be Free Inc., a market research company. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/08/14/BU212620.DTL&type=business
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| | no web bugs gif |
| | Read about No Web Bug Gif in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary. | | | Please wait a few seconds while we search several sources for no web bugs gif | | | Find no web bugs gif and more at Lycos Search. |
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http://www.sooradio.com/en/no-web-bugs-gif.html
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| | No Web Bugs |
| | Since Web Bugs do much the same thing as cookies, the same policy now applies to them. | | | They are both pieces of code used on web sites to capture bits of information about people who visit the web site. | | | The Department's Chief Information Officer has established a new policy that prohibits the use of Web Bugs on DOC Websites. |
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http://www.ita.doc.gov/oirm/No_Web_Bugs.htm
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| | Web Email web bugs for email |
| | Looking for the latest help regarding web bugs for email. | | | We can't offer any assistance or guidance when you are also doing research in books or magazines | | | All decent sites providing information about web bugs for email, will almost always provide an about or contact page which will record the site owners contact details The details should divulge key points on the owners credentials. |
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| | Web Bug Tracking Survey - SecuritySpace |
| | In the process, this second web site gets to know that you visited the original web site. | | | The counting of the number of sites, while useful, doesn't tell us who is bugging the majority of the traffic on the net, only who has bugged the most web sites. | | | By weighing the bugged site by how authoritative it is (based on our Referral Report), we can make a very rough estimate of the relative amount of traffic bugged by each bugger. |
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http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.200102/webbug.html
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| | Foiling Web bugs |
| | The service from DidTheyReadIt uses precisely this approach. | | | Kabay, Ph.D., CISSP, is Associate Professor in the Division of Business and Management at Norwich University in Northfield, Vt. Mich can be reached by e-mail and his Web site. | | | If there is an instruction requiring automatic refresh of the image as part of the HTML code, is even possible to tell how long the e-mail message was left open on screen. |
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http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2004/0920sec1.html?fsrc=rss-security
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| | Bugs on Board Baby Product - PAUMAKO Web Search and Shop |
| | These bugs have been a lifesaver at restuarants from the very start. | | | There are 3 in the set but I only put 2 on his carseat and used the other one on his crib to entertain him. | | | Knowing how much my daughter loves these Bugs On Board, I'd pay 30 dollars for them! |
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| | Sites of the Week |
| | U.S.A. Web Games -- help students learn the states, capitals, geographic features, etc. | | | Business 2.0 Web Guide -- a directory of business links. | | | Animal Legal and Historical Web Center -- from the Michigan State University College of Law -- statutes and legal cases involving animals. |
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| | Woodblock.com - Opening Page |
| | A unique combination of two traits - he was both a thorough and meticulous craftsman and a man with a 'vision' - placed him in a unique position in the history of woodblock printmaking.I hope you will enjoy seeing his work, which deserves much wider attention. | | | No 'web bugs' or advertising banners are used on this site. | | | In her site you will find information from a traditional indigo dyer, a copper sculptor, a man making carved name plates, and more... |
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| | You can also search the EarthLink site by entering a keyword below: | | | Members and visitors to the EarthLink Web site agree to abide by our Policies and Agreements. | | | Please check the spelling on the Web address you entered—especially capitalization and punctuation. |
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| | Computer Systems Plus of Park Ridge |
| | Web graphics available, Home Page servers, Business or individual | | | Municipal, Police and Fire Department systems installed and serviced | | | Tell Congress to stop the RIAA subpeona deluge |
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| | WEB BUGS |
| | To send the mail please press this button: | | | DESCRIBE THE BUG, I WILL TRY TO SOLVE IT!: | | | WHAT VER OF WINDOWS ARE YOU USING or OS ? |
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