Re: 60 minutes Sunday!!

"Doug" <Nospamreat@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:dre5nd0bj9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/webbugs
>>
>> Web Bugs are images (Gifs, Jpegs, PNGs, etc.) that companies and
>> organizations put into web pages, e-mails and other HTML supporting
>> documents to track information about the viewer. These images are
>> sometime know by other names such as tracking bugs, pixel tags, web
>> beacons or clear gifs. What ever the name, their function is largely
>> the same. Under normal circumstances an organization would just look
>> at
>> their web logs to find the kind of information that a Web Bug might
>> provide them. However, if the content the web bugger wishes to track
>> is not hosted on their site, but instead its hosted from a third
>> party's server, then the web bugger can not obtain this information
>> since they would not have access to the web server logs. By putting
>> an image from one of their servers into an HTML E-mail or a third
>> party's webpage the Web Buggers can find the data they want about
>> the contents viewer. Some of the interesting information items that
>> can be obtained about the viewer are: * IP Address
>> * Hostname
>> * Operating System
>> * Web browser type (IE, Mozilla, Opera, etc.)
>> * Date the image was viewed
>> * If cookies are used, other sites visted
>>
>> Since the clients IP is logged further information that can be
>> obtained if the web bugger wishes to take further steps. Even going
>> so far as to port map and do an OS detection on the clients IP using
>> Nmap. -----------------------------
>>
>> Since the code snippet in question didn't look like it was complete,
>> it was probably not intentional.
>>
>> --
>> Juba
>> www.masterjuba.com
> I copied this off of American Pain Foundation site.I guess they
> attach web bugs to track people visiting their site.OE removed it
> when I copied and pasted it.
>
> Doug
>
> It was not intentional by no means at all!!!!

No problem.

In the future you might want to utilize this method of "scrubbing" text
you get off of web sites before posting it in your newsreader; paste it
into an empty notepad file, copy it again and then past it into your
newsreader.

--
Juba
www.masterjuba.com

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