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Patman360
Serenity Now
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Location: Cork, Ireland 
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- #11
- Posted: 04/25/2015 21:02
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| 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.
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19loveless91
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- Posted: 04/25/2015 21:05
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| 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.
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Patman360
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- #13
- Posted: 04/25/2015 21:08
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| 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. 🤔
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Norman Bates
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- Posted: 04/25/2015 21:24
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| 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.
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Patman360
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- #15
- Posted: 04/25/2015 21:34
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| 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. 🤣
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Norman Bates
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- Posted: 04/25/2015 21:38
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| Patman360 wrote: | | Yeah, loveless made everything I said pretty much redundant in one sentence. :lol: |
😁 thanks for the care anyway man. Much appreciated.
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albummaster
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- #17
- Posted: 04/26/2015 08:12
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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).
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