303067 - Ewido Security Sweep found reoccurring tracking cookies

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Security, enhancement)

Description

[Edward Ware]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

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 ewido security suite - Scan report
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 + Created on:			5:27:15 AM, 8/2/2005
 + Report-Checksum:		25086A32

 + Scan result:

	:mozilla.95:C:\Documents and Settings\Ed\My
Documents\Profiles\default\58k01wp0.slt\cookies.txt ->
Spyware.Cookie.Casalemedia : Cleaned with backup
	:mozilla.96:C:\Documents and Settings\Ed\My
Documents\Profiles\default\58k01wp0.slt\cookies.txt ->
Spyware.Cookie.Casalemedia : Cleaned with backup
	:mozilla.97:C:\Documents and Settings\Ed\My
Documents\Profiles\default\58k01wp0.slt\cookies.txt ->
Spyware.Cookie.Casalemedia : Cleaned with backup
	:mozilla.125:C:\Documents and Settings\Ed\My
Documents\Profiles\default\58k01wp0.slt\cookies.txt ->
Spyware.Cookie.Googleadservices : Cleaned with backup
	:mozilla.131:C:\Documents and Settings\Ed\My
Documents\Profiles\default\58k01wp0.slt\cookies.txt ->
Spyware.Cookie.Statcounter : Cleaned with backup
	:mozilla.160:C:\Documents and Settings\Ed\My
Documents\Profiles\default\58k01wp0.slt\cookies.txt -> Spyware.Cookie.Liveperson
: Cleaned with backup
	:mozilla.161:C:\Documents and Settings\Ed\My
Documents\Profiles\default\58k01wp0.slt\cookies.txt -> Spyware.Cookie.Liveperson
: Cleaned with backup
	:mozilla.62:C:\Documents and Settings\Ed\My
Documents\Profiles\ED\shmx26o4.slt\cookies.txt ->
Spyware.Cookie.Googleadservices : Cleaned with backup
	:mozilla.89:C:\Documents and Settings\Ed\My
Documents\Profiles\ED\shmx26o4.slt\cookies.txt -> Spyware.Cookie.Onestat :
Cleaned with backup
	:mozilla.90:C:\Documents and Settings\Ed\My
Documents\Profiles\ED\shmx26o4.slt\cookies.txt -> Spyware.Cookie.Onestat :
Cleaned with backup
	:mozilla.92:C:\Documents and Settings\Ed\My
Documents\Profiles\ED\shmx26o4.slt\cookies.txt -> Spyware.Cookie.Onestat :
Cleaned with backup
	:mozilla.136:C:\Documents and Settings\Ed\My
Documents\Profiles\ED\shmx26o4.slt\cookies.txt -> Spyware.Cookie.Casalemedia :
Cleaned with backup
	:mozilla.137:C:\Documents and Settings\Ed\My
Documents\Profiles\ED\shmx26o4.slt\cookies.txt -> Spyware.Cookie.Casalemedia :
Cleaned with backup
	:mozilla.138:C:\Documents and Settings\Ed\My
Documents\Profiles\ED\shmx26o4.slt\cookies.txt -> Spyware.Cookie.Casalemedia :
Cleaned with backup


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run Ewido Security Suite
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3.

Actual Results:  
Removed cookies

Expected Results:  
Had no security threats

I really like Firefox. It is faster than I.E. and I want to continue using it.
Please make corrections in insure there are no security threats.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Cookies are working as designed. Use the privacy settings in the Options menu to
block cookies from specific sites. The "evil" sites change over time, there is
no way for the browser to come pre-loaded with sites blocked.