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Try not even to visit it yourself if possible in case your computer has tracking cookies.
Most anti-spyware software makers lump adware (that stuff which gets installed because it''s free or cheap), BHOs (browser helper objects - stuff that suddenly appears on your browser), distributed attack tools, keystroke loggers, PCP software, tracking cookies, and unauthorized remote admin tools in the same global spyware box.
lt;p>What the study shows is that most users on social networking sites are vulnerable to having their identity information from their profiles, associated with tracking cookies used by data aggregators, he said.
 
 
 
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