Tracking cookies in signatures on nukecops

Captain Joined: Aug 25, 2005 Posts: 380

Hi
Right, I don't know whos doing it or how theyre doing it but some people posting on this site are firing cookies from their posts. Im almost certain its coming from their signatures and Im appalled to find that some of em are firing tracking cookies.
I don't like what I can't see, so i always have third party cookies set to prompt in my internet options. Thats the only way I know that theyre doing it.
I know some of em are tracking cookies cos ive allowed a few in out of curiosity and theyve then come up in spysweeper.

So, anychance nukecops can bust these people?
Cos if theyre firing cookies, how long before they start firing Malware?
eh?
eh?
I thought so....................................

infact, ive just decided, im gonna find some of these wasters for you and you can deal with em.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12342

They are normally those dynamic images that show IP number and so forth. I've not seen malware done through this, but it may be possible.
Really we'd have to ban all images.

Captain Joined: Aug 25, 2005 Posts: 380

Couldn't you just ban the code that allows dynamic images?
I've seen some with a huge string of code.
Surely, if everyones intentions are honorable, they wouldn't mind having to revert back to the standard

Code:

I just fear for all those whos settings instantly let this stuff through.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12342

Unfortunately even then, you can have the server process .gif files as code and return an image. It would not really solve the problem