READING GOOGLE AHT PLANTS SPYWARE IN COMPUTER

Sorry for the post that sounds off topic , but it is
only fair for you to realise when reading here at
Google groups, a company which is identified as
"questionmarket" has been planting spyware in
cookies files. This has been confirmed. I
have not yet determined who "questionmarket" is
and what the purpose of this spyware is. I would
venture to guess that this is aimed at reporting
your reading and posting habits back to some
unknown entity, however I do not know how far
this spyware may penetrate into your other
computer files, or who else maybe receiving the
results of these spyware scans. I do not affirm
that this spyware will (for certain) affect YOUR
computer, but it certainly implants in mine.
What I do want now is FULL DISCLOSURE.
Is Google responsible for this? and if so, what
is the purpose? If Google is not responsible,
who is? And what is Google, Usenet going to do
about it? I cant say who is responsible, but your
thoughts are solicited.

wrote:
Sorry for the post that sounds off topic , but it is
only fair for you to realise when reading here at
Google groups, a company which is identified as
"questionmarket" has been planting spyware in
cookies files. This has been confirmed. I
have not yet determined who "questionmarket" is
and what the purpose of this spyware is. I would
venture to guess that this is aimed at reporting
your reading and posting habits back to some
unknown entity, however I do not know how far
this spyware may penetrate into your other
computer files, or who else maybe receiving the
results of these spyware scans. I do not affirm
that this spyware will (for certain) affect YOUR
computer, but it certainly implants in mine.
What I do want now is FULL DISCLOSURE.
Is Google responsible for this? and if so, what
is the purpose? If Google is not responsible,
who is? And what is Google, Usenet going to do
about it? I cant say who is responsible, but your
thoughts are solicited.

Since spyware contained in a cookie can't be executed by your system, it
can't penetrate into other files anyway.

Regardless of what Google is or isn't doing via cookies, there's no
reason to worry about it. Well, I suppose MSIE could screw something up
so bad that maybe something could happen, but not with any well-written
browser such as Opera, Firefox, Safari, KDE, etc.

Now...if you download and install some Google toolbar/feature/gizmo that
infests your system with Spyware, then [IMHO] you pretty much deserve
whatever they do to you.

--
-Gandalf

Never meddle in the affairs of a dragon for you are crunchy and taste
good with ketchup!

it turns out it was a problem, these spyware
cookies triggering hords of junk E mails and
spam offers for viagra...
research reveals that "questionmarket" and
"doubleclick.com" and others that have been
planting spywares in these newsgroups are
under federal investigation.
anyway if you are using internet explorer,
open control panel, internet settings,
security, turn off auto cookie handling,
set manually: "allow first party cookies"
"block third party cookies" this seems
to have stopped the installations of
spyware.
thanks for your kind advice, i think i
will try opera, firefox etc...