From: BillK (bill@wkidston.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 08:53:24 MDT
On Tue Jun 10, 2003 04:26 pm Brian Atkins wrote:
>
> No, the way to test is to simply look through your raw web server log
> files and see what the referring URL was for all these extra hits.
> Maybe you aren't aware of it, but whenever your web browser downloads
> any web page, it tells that server what page it was at previously.
> Privacy issue, or just good clean fun?
>
This is only true for a default browser setup where the user has given
no thought to security and defending himself when roaming the dangerous
wilds of the internet. It is a trivial task to block the referrer URL in
your browser, (or spoof it, as my software does).
If you haven't installed any defenses then when you run any cleanup
software, you will be amazed at all the junk it finds that web sites
have been dumping on your PC.
Remember when you are looking at a web site, they are also looking back
at you!
Be careful, it's dangerous out there! :)
BillK
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