The Dreaded iesnare Cookie
Can Get you Banned from Mafia Wars, Vampire Wars, Yoville,
Dragon Wars, Farmville, Fashion Wars
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DOES THIS LOOK FAMILIAR?
HOW ABOUT THIS ONE
First Things First Play in Privacy Don't get banned
Have 2 facebook accounts? Better not get caught it is against FB TOS
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and Bam like that chef from the foodnetwork says your back in business!
PROTECT YOUR FACEBOOK and MAFIA WARS ACCOUNT
* Click the Start button, enter notepad in the bar at the bottom
* Right-click on the Notepad item which appears at the top of the list
* Choose "Run as administrator"
* Allow Notepad to run as Administrator
* Open C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
* Add the lines to the end of the file:
127.0.0.1 iesnare.com
127.0.0.1 www.iesnare.com
127.0.0.1 mpsnare.iesnare.com
127.0.0.1 ci-mpsnare.iesnare.com
127.0.0.1 isnare.com
Basically, this re-routes iesnare to send mesages YOUR computer instead of their intended website (which means they will be thrown away). You can test that you did it correctly by trying to go to www.iesnare.com after doing these steps and you should get a page not found.
As you probably know the fewer sites you allow to install software on your PC, the more productive and safer your browsing will be.
The only site you should have in your whitelist for addons installation is addons.mozilla.org (as it happens for an "out of the box" Firefox).
Therefore the links below point to trusted downloads on addons.mozilla.org.
You could take these steps if you have the cookie and want it gone!
First Let's REMOVE IT
Go to TOOLS select OPTIONS
Select EXCEPTIONS
enter the following and select BLOCK for each address
ci-mpsnare.iesnare.com
iesnare.com
mpsnare.iesnare.com
www.mpsnare.iesnare.com
isnare.com
When finished click CLOSE
Open TOOLS then OPTIONS again
This time Click SHOW COOKIES
Highlight IESNARE.COM
and click REMOVE COOKIES
click CLOSE
then
Block it from comming back
assuming you are using firefox
Note how it sends the iesnare site to the untrusted folder if it does not manually do that
Finally
Ever wondered why you are still tracked though you tried everything to prevent it?
BetterPrivacy is a safeguard which protects from usually not deletable LSO's on Google, YouTube, Ebay...
Better Privacy serves to protect against not deletable longterm cookies, a new generation of 'Super-Cookie', which silently conquered the internet. This new cookie generation offers unlimited user tracking to industry and market research. Concerning privacy Flash- and DOM Storage objects are most critical.
This addon was made to make users aware of those hidden, never expiring objects and to offer an easy way to get rid of them - since browsers are unable to do that for you.
Flash-cookies (Local Shared Objects, LSO) are pieces of information placed on your computer by a Flash plugin. Those Super-Cookies are placed in central system folders and so protected from deletion. They are frequently used like standard browser cookies. Although their thread potential is much higher as of conventional cookies, only few users began to take notice of them. It is of frequent occurrence that -after a time- hundreds of those Flash-cookies reside in special folders. And they won't be deleted - never.
BetterPrivacy can stop them, . by allowing to silently remove those objects on every browser exit. So this extension becomes sort of "install and forget add-on". Usually automatic deletion is safe (no negative impact on your browsing), especially if the deletion timer is activated. The timer can delay automatic deletion for new or modified Flash-cookies which might be in use. It also allows to delete those objects immediately if desired.
With BetterPrivacy it is possible to review, protect or delete new Flash-cookies individually. Users who wish to to manage all cookies manually can disable the automatic functions. BetterPrivacy also protects against 'DOM Storage' longterm tracking, a browser feature which has been granted by the major browser manufactures.
Some flash LSO-cookie properties in short...
- they are never expiring - staying on your computer for an unlimited time.
- by default they offer a storage of 100 KB (compare: Usual cookies 4 KB).
- browsers are not aware of those cookies, LSO's usually cannot be removed by browsers.
- via Flash they can access and store highly specific personal and technical information (system, user name, files,...).
- ability to send the stored information to the appropriate server, without user's permission.
- flash applications do not need to be visible
- there is no easy way to tell which flash-cookie sites are tracking you.
- shared folders allow cross-browser tracking, LSO's work in every flash-enabled application
- the company doesn't provide a user-friendly way to manage LSO's, in fact it's incredible cumbersome.
- many domains and tracking companies make extensive use of flash-cookies.
These cookies are not harmless.
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