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McAfee is pretty naive [message #30203]

Sat, 25 March 2006 15:59

timmy

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McAfee Security Center has a cute feature "Privacy Service" that is intended to block ads and popups. Sounds great. Until, this week, I ran into it as a business owner and discovered how naive it is. It took me and my business partner 3 days to find out that it blocks our legitimate urls. OK, bear with me, this needs background:

On http://partnermine.com we serve web pages with images on, and we place those images into directories constructed with hex codes. So valid subdirectories can be (eg) "/c1/" or, in this case "/ad/". They are pretty random in nature and we do it for internal reasons.

McAfee Privacy Policy filters out the entire "img" tag for the picture we serve - a picture our customer pays to receive from us, and a picture McAfee Privacy Service customers pay to block!

We got in touch with McAfee. "Uninstall and reinstall the Privacy Service" they said. OK, I argued, but eventually realised I would get no more "help" until I had done it. And, guess what? Yup. "No change". They will "pass to development"

But what a naive filter that filters out in the first two letters of the word "Advert" as part of a pathname! How more "old tech" can it be? And worse, how many other poor souls worldwide have installed this and have no idea what they are not getting from websites they want to see?

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		McAfee is pretty naive By: timmy on Sat, 25 March 2006 15:59
		Re: McAfee is pretty naive By: Brian1407a on Sat, 25 March 2006 17:21
		Re: McAfee is pretty naive By: timmy on Sat, 25 March 2006 17:33
		Re: McAfee is pretty naive By: Brian1407a on Sat, 25 March 2006 21:19
		Re: McAfee is pretty naive By: jaycracker on Sun, 26 March 2006 16:27
		Norton? Pah! By: Deeej on Sun, 26 March 2006 21:29
		Re: Norton? Pah! By: kupuna on Sun, 26 March 2006 22:25
		Desktop environments By: Deeej on Sun, 26 March 2006 23:27
		Re: Desktop environments By: kupuna on Mon, 27 March 2006 20:03
		Re: Desktop environments By: Deeej on Mon, 27 March 2006 20:21
		Re: Desktop environments By: Deeej on Mon, 27 March 2006 20:23
		Re: Desktop environments By: kupuna on Mon, 27 March 2006 23:04
		Re: Desktop environments By: Deeej on Mon, 27 March 2006 23:31
		Re: Norton? Pah! By: Brian1407a on Mon, 27 March 2006 01:12
		Hmm By: Deeej on Mon, 27 March 2006 01:29
		Re: Hmm By: Brian1407a on Mon, 27 March 2006 03:09
		Re: Hmm By: Deeej on Mon, 27 March 2006 03:40
		Re: Norton? Pah! By: Handyman on Mon, 27 March 2006 12:04

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