Recent suspicious eBay cookie: browser says "hello, @@"
- From: Young Coot <Reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:00:33 -0700
This happened a couple of months ago, and has been taken care of, but I
wanted to post the information here to:
1) see if this has happened to anyone else, and
2) to let people know what my solution was.
The machine particulars in this case: Windoze 98SE, IE 6, and Opera 7.5.
After a normal round of eBay activity, logging in and logging out, the usual
behavior for IE is to state a generic greeting near the top "hello! Sign in
or register". At some point, still not sure how, the sentence began to
read "hello, @@! Sign in or register". Well, I'm not "@@" and never have
been, but the machine thought that was my login ID for some reason.
For the heck of it I did some digging in eBay to find out if anyone with an
identity of "@@" ever had an account with them. Turns out there was
someone with that online ID, from China (!), and the account was no longer
active. This immediately raised some concerns with me. Something dropped
an eBay cookie onto my machine that made IE think that I was this person.
The Opera browser, on the same machine (Windoze) gave the generic greeting
and not one specific to "@@".
My solution was to erase all IE cookies and clean out IE's internet cache on
the machine. That effectively reset the browser to a generic ID, and the
problem never came back. I also changed my password over at eBay (using
another machine) as an extra precaution, and did a fresh scan of the
Windows machine for spyware (that came up clean, and has continued to do
so).
Has anyone else experienced this one?
.
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