Ben Edelman: Which Anti-Spyware Programs Delete Which Cookies?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

The Guru of All Things Spyware & Adware, Ben Edelman has conducted
an exhaustive comparison of Anti-Spyware products:

[snip]

Earlier this summer, Vinny Lingham and Clicks2Customers asked me to
test the current state of cookie detections by major anti-spyware
programs. They had noticed that for those anti-spyware programs that
detect cookies, not all cookies are equally affected. Which cookies are
most affected? By which anti-spyware programs? I ran tests to see --
forming a suite of cookies, then scanning them with the leading
anti-spyware programs.

Vinny is generously letting me share my results with others who are
interested.

[snip]

Much, much more here:
http://www.benedelman.org/news/091306-1.html

- ferg



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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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