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Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

albummaster — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 04:12:25 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 04/26/2015 08:12

Not sure why QuantServe is being flagged up like that. It's not dangerous in any way and has been on BEA for several years. QuantServe is just a way for BEA to independently measure audience demographics without sharing or collecting any personally identifiable information. Puncture Repair is right, it's similar to Google Analytics e.g. nobody knows Joe Bloggs has visited, but just somebody using Firefox from Canada. The aggregate information helps to make decisions about which browsers to support, which pages are popular on BEA (& which are not), & where to focus development effort (e.g. whether to drop support for IE7 because nobody now uses it etc).

Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

Norman Bates — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:38:34 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 04/25/2015 21:38

Patman360 wrote:

Yeah, loveless made everything I said pretty much redundant in one sentence. :lol:

😁 thanks for the care anyway man. Much appreciated.

Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

Patman360 — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:34:07 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 04/25/2015 21:34

Norman Bates wrote:

It(s possible. But wouldn't it be spotted on other sites besides BEA (and with different browsers too)? EDIT: loveless made this obsolete.

Yeah, loveless made everything I said pretty much redundant in one sentence. 🤣

Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

Norman Bates — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:24:03 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 04/25/2015 21:24

Patman360 wrote:

they get hidden very deeply.

It(s possible. But wouldn't it be spotted on other sites besides BEA (and with different browsers too)? EDIT: loveless made this obsolete.

Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

Patman360 — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:08:54 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 04/25/2015 21:08

19loveless91 wrote:

You can check what cookies are being sent to you when visiting BEA. You'll see quantserve there.

Ah, you're right, just realised my anti-virus was already blocking it and that's why I couldn't find it, must be related to the site. 🤔

Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

19loveless91 — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:05:12 GMT

Author: 19loveless91

Posted: 04/25/2015 21:05

Patman360 wrote:

it might be worth going into cookies in Chrome settings and checking out if there's anything unusual in there.

You can check what cookies are being sent to you when visiting BEA. You'll see quantserve there.

Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

Patman360 — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:02:29 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 04/25/2015 21:02

Norman Bates wrote:

I thought of that too, and have checked. Unless it's deeply hidden somewhere (I haven't found it, but it's possible) the Spyware is not on my computer - my anti-virus blocking it is one more clue to this, I should think. Another possible clue is that it appears only on BEA and not any other site I visit.

These things do tend to get extremely well hidden in folders, usually the folders are ones that are not even visible unless turned on by the administrator, they get hidden very deeply. I'm just guessing it may be on the computer somewhere as my anti-virus is finding no mention of quantcast (although I'm not sure how good mine is admittedly, though it did find some trojans awhile back that I let in...), it might be worth going into cookies in Chrome settings and checking out if there's anything unusual in there.

Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

Norman Bates — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:31:04 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 04/25/2015 20:31

Patman360 wrote:

I'm no expert on this by any means, but is it possible that quantserve could be related to something installed on your computer? I've had problems with redirect cookies and stuff in the past, telling me the site, etc. was the problem when the real problem lay buried deep in stuff installed in my computer, sounds reminiscent of that to me.

Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

Patman360 — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 15:47:21 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 04/25/2015 19:47

I'm no expert on this by any means, but is it possible that quantserve could be related to something installed on your computer? I've had problems with redirect cookies and stuff in the past, telling me the site, etc. was the problem when the real problem lay buried deep in stuff installed in my computer, sounds reminiscent of that to me.

Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

Norman Bates — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 14:03:41 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 04/25/2015 18:03

besteveralbums.com/privacy wrote:

We never use or share the personally identifiable information you provide to us online in ways unrelated to the those described in this policy, nor will we share your information with third parties without your permission. Your data will only be accessible to and used by BestEverAlbums.com, and only for the purpose for which you submitted them.

Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

Norman Bates — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 13:35:59 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 04/25/2015 17:35

Cheers for the clarification. Although I must say it does look like Quantserve makes the info it gathers available for other uses...

The Guardian wrote:

Is the data sold to third parties?
In its privacy policy, Quantcast says it may share log data and aggregated information with third parties. These include:
- companies employed to support Quantcast services.
- companies that provide delivery and measurement of ad campaigns.

This data would be used for such things as industry analysis and targeting adverts.

(emphasis mine)

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...monitoring

Other sites also state that the data collected is used for commercial purposes.

I don't know if AM is aware of this, but I'm not particularly happy about this, whoever might have implemented this spyware; and also I'm not particularly happy that I had to discover this accidentally (thank you anti-virus!).

What's everybody position on this?

Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 13:28:20 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/25/2015 17:28

(I haven't spoken to AM, this is just my two cents to possibly clear things up before he replies)

My understanding is that Quantserve is similar to Google Analytics, in that it records various pieces of information for everyone that visits. This will be information like what country a user is from, what web browser they are using, what device, or what website redirected a user to BEA. Many websites do this, not to steal information but to gather general data that helps the admin better understand the website's demographic and how it can be improved.

https://www.quantcast.com/

Different anti-viruses are likely more sensitive about this than others, and chances are yours works harder to prevent any of your data being collected, so it's seeing the plugin on BEA and bringing it up as a red flag.

Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

Norman Bates — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 07:40:29 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 04/25/2015 11:40

One question is left then: how come the Quantserve tracking code is present on BEA? Was it implemented by you, AM? Did it just hack the site? Can we turn it off? EDIT: just checked and Quantserve is not installed on my Chrome version and it's not in my plugins. It's on BEA.

Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

Norman Bates — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 07:32:10 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 04/25/2015 11:32

When I open the notifications journal from my antivirus, that's the type of notification I get:

Site Web dangereux http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel;r=161149914;a=p-87d9FeOU6dDKM;fpan=0;fpa=P0-208631687-13 88828430390;ns=0;ce=1;cm=;je=1;sr=1680x1050x24;enc=n;dst=1;et=1429961438160;tzo=-120;ref=h ttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.besteveralbums.com%2FphpBB2%2Findex.php;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.besteveralbum s.com%2FphpBB2%2Findex.php;ogl= bloqué

I get one of those each time I go on a BEA page.

EDIT: apparently Quantserve is a tracker/spyware my antivirus doesn't agree to. Problem solved?

Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

Norman Bates — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 07:16:14 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 04/25/2015 11:16

Hello! I've been having these weird messages from my anti-virus protection:

http://www.mediafire.com/view/08boyowyrn2z81a/Capturedecran.jpg

Notice the warning message on the bottom right.

It happens everytime I go on a new page on BEA (even once I'll have submitted this message, for instance), and no other site.

I'm using Chrome. (EDIT: just checked, same thing happens with Firefox and Explorer - not a browser issue then).

Of course it could just be a glitch in my anti-virus were it to have taken a strong disliking to BEA, but I just thought I should warn y'all.

Re: Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

Norman Bates — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 07:15:46 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 04/25/2015 11:15

? strange, the OP won't appear... trying again.

Is BEA a "dangerous website"?

Norman Bates — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 07:15:12 GMT