BEWARE?

Got a note today about a bad site: SpecificMEDIA.com

It appears to be a company collecting personal information from the Movie Fans website to sell to the advertising community. Asumption is: it is a data miner.

In the Windows "Privacy Report" tab at the bottom of IE7.

One of the statements in the company's "Summary" was: "Unique identifiers issued by a Web site or service for the purpose of identifying an individual over time."

It has shown up as being blocked by Windows Security. Do we warn people? Has anyone else noticed this spyware?

We've been discussing this for the evening at Ninjas, but we felt it should be a wider topic; I'd like some advice on this, if anyone has insights.

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Permalink Reply by e manderthal on May 25, 2009 at 8:06pm: Well, supposedly, I was getting that page 'cause the kids had down-loaded the "chrome", and when I went back to Firefox, all was fine.
Who knows, I certainly don't.
And the CS guy I just talked to was awful!! Ha! I had to walk him through everything. He really was a dupe. ah, well...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on May 25, 2009 at 8:19pm: And the CS guy I just talked to was awful!! Ha! I had to walk him through everything. He really was a dupe.

It's a conspiracy, I say!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gene Venable on May 25, 2009 at 8:13pm: I think you do have cookies in Chrome, but that doesn't mean Netflix likes it. I'm in Chrome now. The main problem in Netflix is that you can't watch Instantly unless you are using Internet Explorer or using a tricky add-on in Firefox.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by beeswax on May 26, 2009 at 1:58am: The main problem in Netflix is that you can't watch Instantly unless you are using Internet Explorer or using a tricky add-on in Firefox.

I am a pretty loyal Firefox user, but believe me, "tricky add-ons" are beyond me. Aside from upgrading when they tell me to, and using AdBlock, there is nothing "tricky" about the Firefox I've got.

And I can use IW just fine, on a Mac with no Microsoft add-ons whatsoever. I've also used IW on Safari.; ▶ Reply to This