[I CAN’T MOVE MY HANDS WELL TO TYPE-PLEASE FORGIVE THE ALL CAPS]
I WANT TO KNOW WHY MY EARTHLINK “SPY AUDIT” COMES UP WITH TECH REP AS HAVING SPYWARE ON MY LAPTOP. HERE ARE THE RESULTS:
DEFINITION ON SPY AUDIT:
“Adware Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that are generated by a web server and stored on your computer for future access. Cookies were originally implemented to allow you to customize your web experience. However, some web sites now issue adware cookies, which allow multiple web sites to store and access cookies that may contain personal information (including surfing habits, user names and passwords, areas of interest, etc.), and then simultaneously share the information it contains with other web sites. This sharing of information allows marketing firms to create a user profile based on your personal information and sell it to other firms.
Adware cookies are installed and accessed without your knowledge or consent.
Adware Cookie
Atdmt (Atlas DMT)
DoubleClick Cookie
TechTarget.com Cookie ”
SO IS TECH REP COLLECTING INFO AND PASSING IT TO OTHER COMPANIES, ETC?
