AD-AWARE spyware?

[Arwin Vosselman]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:04:55 +0200, floris wrote:

>I recently went to the lavasoft website (http://www.lavasoftusa.com) to
>download the latest version of adaware and for some reason the site was in
>DUTCH?!
>Now I wonder very much how an american site could have known that I am
>Dutch: I have my IE configured to ask me every time before installing a
>cooky and I generally refuse, even than: this was the first time I went to
>the site as I usually download my software from Cnet.com.
>I sent an email to the nice people of lavasoft about this and they claim I
>went to the site http://www.lavasoftusa.com/default.shtml.nl, but this is
>NOT true. Even if I type in the URL http://www.lavasoftusa.com the site is
>in Dutch.

There are several possibilities. You instructed your browser to
prefer dutch pages, if available, somewhere under languages. Also your
ip tells them you are from the Netherlands and they serve you with the
dutch version. If you go to www.google.com, it reverts you to
www.goolgle.nl as well.

IMO nothing to worry about.
--
Arwin.

[floris]

i live in france, so the page should have been displayed in french
not sure about the language options in IE though

"Arwin Vosselman" <arwin@xs4all.iNvaLid> schreef in bericht
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> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:04:55 +0200, floris wrote:
>
> >I recently went to the lavasoft website (http://www.lavasoftusa.com) to
> >download the latest version of adaware and for some reason the site was
in
> >DUTCH?!
> >Now I wonder very much how an american site could have known that I am
> >Dutch: I have my IE configured to ask me every time before installing a
> >cooky and I generally refuse, even than: this was the first time I went
to
> >the site as I usually download my software from Cnet.com.
> >I sent an email to the nice people of lavasoft about this and they claim
I
> >went to the site http://www.lavasoftusa.com/default.shtml.nl, but this is
> >NOT true. Even if I type in the URL http://www.lavasoftusa.com the site
is
> >in Dutch.
>
> There are several possibilities. You instructed your browser to
> prefer dutch pages, if available, somewhere under languages. Also your
> ip tells them you are from the Netherlands and they serve you with the
> dutch version. If you go to www.google.com, it reverts you to
> www.goolgle.nl as well.
>
> IMO nothing to worry about.
> --
> Arwin.

[Arwin Vosselman]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 15:02:03 +0200, floris wrote:

>i live in france, so the page should have been displayed in french
>not sure about the language options in IE though

But you are dutch? It should be the language settings then, I think.
If you are using a dutch version of IE, that is also transferred with
every request. they might be using that also.
--
Arwin.