In the wee hour of 09:15 PM 6/9/01 -0400, John Eichenlaub bequeathed such
tales as these:
>Fellow Listers, I recently installed a free program from the Privacy
>Foundation ( www.privacyfoundation.org/ ) that identifies potential web
>bugs. The program is called Bugnosis, and is available at
>( www.bugnosis.org/ ). This program emits an "uh-oh" sound, tells what
>type of "bug" it found, and places a small icon next to the alleged
>offender on the web page. If ZoneAlarm alerts get your blood pressure up,
>you may not want to run this program. I got five (!) possible bug alerts
>on just one ZDnet webpage. I'm wondering if any of you have used this
>program and what your comments might be.... John.
John, I tried this program out and it is pointless to an extreme. Any of
the single pixel gifs would set it off as well as cookies would be a
no-no. So I uninstalled it, privacy is important but if you are truly
concerned about it then don't connect to the internet for any reason. One
problem I have with this is that in an attempt to work against sites which
may or may not track your movements Bugnosis will take your movements to
add to their database of potential new "Bug" sites. Bad catch-22 in my
opinion. If you want to disable many of these bugs then disable
JavaScript, cookies, browser cache, and all other forms of scripting in
your browser settings too.
Peter Kaulback
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