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Word Tracking Bug Demo and Remover

May 27, 2004 by

Alex Halderman has created a page about the Word tracking bugs I described yesterday. He offers an example Word tracking bug for you to examine, and a scanner program that can find and remove Word tracking bugs on your computer.

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  1. Jean says
    June 6, 2004 at 8:58 pm

    A good way to stop the Word tracking bug is to install a firewall (ZoneAlarm or other) that controls alerts you software that is not supposed to connect to the net request a http connection

  2. Peter Roozemaal says
    May 28, 2004 at 10:54 am

    I am quite unhappy that OpenOffice (at least version 1.0) supports this web bug too.

  3. a little ludwig goes a long way says
    May 28, 2004 at 8:19 am

    Linkdump

    geekdiy.com — great site for fun geek projects. SID in Seattle. Crap how did I miss this, this would have been fun to attend. “Brian analyzes traffic trends”: http://www.brianstorms.com/archives/000365.html. Perhaps the web is becoming less US-centri…

  4. joe says
    May 27, 2004 at 10:30 am

    Are there any resources you could recommend about the IFRAMEs stuff? That’s new to me…