{"id":3327,"date":"2010-08-07T16:45:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T20:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2022-12-30T15:26:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T20:26:53","slug":"zombie-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/zombie-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200913142959\/https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/tag\/how-to-get-rid-of-a-trojan-horse-virus-that-wont-go-away\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-110678 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Zombie Cookies\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/malware-24.jpg?resize=75%2C75&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Zombie Cookies\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/malware-24.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/malware-24.jpg?w=116&amp;ssl=1 116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a>If you are a frequent visitor to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> or just stopped by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Scribid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scribid<\/a> to check it out just once, or any other <a title=\"Adobe Flash\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060523161429\/http:\/\/www.adobe.com:80\/products\/flash\/flashpro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">Flash site<\/a> the odds are you have zombie cookies lurking on the computer that you thought were long gone according to an article at <em><a title=\"www.helium.com\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120828001456\/http:\/\/www.helium.com:80\/items\/1905717-zombie-cookies-what-zombie-cookies-are-and-how-to-delete-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Helium<\/a><\/em>. A lawsuit has been filed against major web properties for installing zombie cookies on computers. The suit alleges that the Quantcast cookies violate eavesdropping, hacking, fair trade laws, and have a pattern of covert online surveillance. The firms named in the suit include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130813181819\/http:\/\/aipanic.com\/zombie-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-110680 size-medium\" title=\"Zombie Cookies\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/computer_zombies-2.jpg?resize=150%2C138&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Zombie Cookies\" width=\"150\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/computer_zombies-2.jpg?resize=150%2C138&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/computer_zombies-2.jpg?resize=75%2C69&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/computer_zombies-2.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>ABC<\/li>\n<li>ESPN<\/li>\n<li>HULU<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"MySpace\" href=\"https:\/\/myspace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">MySpace<\/a><\/li>\n<li>MTV<\/li>\n<li>NBC<\/li>\n<li>Scribid<\/li>\n<li>YouTube<\/li>\n<li>Most other sites utilizing Flash<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flashplayer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-110683 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Adobe Flash logo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/adobe_flash_logo.jpg?resize=75%2C75&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Adobe Flash logo\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/adobe_flash_logo.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/adobe_flash_logo.jpg?w=150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a>When you visit a website they generally place a cookie on your computer, which you can delete. But you delete a zombie cookie it comes back to life in a sense &#8211; hence the cool name. The problem was first identified at <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1446862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC Berkley<\/a>. They noticed that they were deleting cookies, but they kept coming back over and over. No amount of deleting them would kill the nasty little buggers off. After tracking down their location the only fix that was easily available at that time was deleting the cookies and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flashplayer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adobe Flash Player<\/a> (ADBE).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. 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Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit says Quantcast Zombie Cookies violates eavesdropping hacking and fair trade laws and a pattern of covert online surveillance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3240,742,736,1484,1805,279,1021,4,53,1543],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-3240","tag-adbe","tag-adobe-systems","tag-cookies","tag-flash","tag-lawsuit","tag-quantcast","tag-security","tag-youttube","tag-zombie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130126,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions\/130126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}