If you’re keeping score, you know I’ve written about web bugs in the past. A web bug is a small graphic image—usually a single pixel—that is embedded within a web page or email message and used specifically to monitor the actions of the reader of the carrier material. They’re nasty little buggers, and until now there’s been no way to analyze them.
That’s now changed, thanks to the Privacy Foundation who has released Bugnosis, a software utility for users of MS-Windows versions of Internet Explorer (version 5.0 or later) that tracks web bugs.
When Bugnosis encounters a web page that contains a web bug, it alerts you with a sound and a window containing information about the web bug. While Bugnosis can’t do anything about web bugs it finds, it does provide some pretty useful information you can use to identify and challenge the owner of the web bug.
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