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Offline polonus

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Is there a defense against the "evercookie"?
« on: September 23, 2010, 10:32:14 PM »
Hi malware fighters,

There is a new cookie that will not go away, evercookie, re: http://samy.pl/evercookie/
re: http://virtualreview.org/tech/zoom/1664919/introducing-the-invulnerable-evercookie, NoScript will block them, Click@Clean will also get rid of them after closing down GoogleChrome. Test here: http://samy.pl/evercookie

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P.S. For one of the features see: http://samy.pl/csshack/

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« Last Edit: September 23, 2010, 10:39:33 PM by polonus »
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Re: Is there a defense against the "evercookie"?
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2010, 12:14:50 AM »
Hi malware fighters,

Some of the answers for the Mozilla browser can be found here: http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5093&start=0
Then the evercookie is not that "everlasting". But who will bastle such a creation in the first place, he definitely is not on the side of the browser user protection and would like to sell his creation to the highest bidder, I guess,

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Re: Is there a defense against the "evercookie"?
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2010, 09:41:12 PM »
Hi folks,

Tested to recover the evercookie after cleansing my GoogleChrome with Click&Clean and these were the results:

pngData mechanism: null
etagData mechanism: undefined
userData mechanism: undefined
cookieData mechanism: null
localData mechanism: null
globalData mechanism: undefined
sessionData mechanism: null
historyData mechanism: undefined
lsoData mechanism: undefined
pngData mechanism: null
etagData mechanism: undefined
userData mechanism: undefined
cookieData mechanism: null
localData mechanism: null
globalData mechanism: undefined
sessionData mechanism: null
historyData mechanism: undefined
lsoData mechanism: undefined
pngData mechanism: null
etagData mechanism: undefined
userData mechanism: undefined
cookieData mechanism: null
localData mechanism: null
globalData mechanism: undefined
sessionData mechanism: null
historyData mechanism: undefined
lsoData mechanism: undefined

So nothing, nada, nichts, nix, niets, nie ma nic,

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Re: Is there a defense against the "evercookie"?
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2010, 04:19:22 AM »
Thanks for the info, pol
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Re: Is there a defense against the "evercookie"?
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2010, 07:53:59 AM »
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