Guest PneumaticDeath Posted August 6, 2001 Share Posted August 6, 2001 I'm a little more paranoid that most, but I dislike it when a web site forces my broswer to connect too much. I noticed a lot of traffic on my network that I couldn't account for. I thought maybe I'd picked up a trojan or worm (though I'm pretty carful about that, but I shudder to think how many security holes there are in IE). Well I finally tracked it back to a web-bug in the geocaching web pages. The offending code is: <script language='javascript' src='http://server.iad.liveperson.net/hc/48316084/x.js?cmd=file&file=chatScript3&site=48316084&category=en;liveperson;3'> And apparently this causes my web browser to report back to the host server.iad.liveperson.net every second or so telling them which web page I'm on in the geocaching web site. I did a cursory amount of research on the liveperson site, and apparently this is an eCRM service, though they had so many marketing buzzwords just on the front page that I felt vaugely ill just looking at it. However, I don't like being tracked. I'm savvy enough that I can just blackhole that ip (207.153.203.227) at my firewall, but it's still annoying. Jeremy: Why do you need to do this? What are you hoping to learn? Does geocaching really need leveraged eCRM? -- Mitch Quote Link to comment
Guest Peter Scholtz Posted August 6, 2001 Share Posted August 6, 2001 I also asked Jeremy, here is his reply: Hmm. Odd. What browser are you using? It's a tool to help folks that are new to the site. It allows you to send a chat request in order to answer questions in real time. It was offered free by LivePerson so I figured I'd play around with it. What's the error? Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Peter Scholtz Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 11:49 AM To: Jeremy Irish Subject: liveperson Jeremy, The JavaScript code for liveperson is causing my browser to report an error. Probably because I have Visual Studio installed (report bowser errors) ... What is this liveperson stuff? You trying to figure the number of unique visitors? Regards Peter Scholtz ------------------ Peter Scholtz www.biometrics.co.za Quote Link to comment
Guest jeremy Posted August 6, 2001 Share Posted August 6, 2001 Yeah. The plan wasn't to play big brother, I am just trying out the tool. I'll play with it one more day and probably abandon it. It's not like I have a staff to answer questions 24x7. Jeremy Quote Link to comment
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