Cookie Grabber Alert on Neo

[Back on Neo :)]

As some of you know i was the victim of a cookie grabber ,soviet1918,
and the little s*ds took all my Nps ,
well i wouldnt wish that on anyone so i did a bit of searching and found
this

http://noscript.net/

its just as it sounds it will stop people trying to steal your cookies
its hard to explain how it works ,read the site,
I found it on http://avatar.starried.net/ and they recommend it so.
Its for Firefox browser.

[Yellow]

Post by Back on Neo :)
As some of you know i was the victim of a cookie grabber ,soviet1918,
and the little s*ds took all my Nps ,
well i wouldnt wish that on anyone so i did a bit of searching and found
this
http://noscript.net/
its just as it sounds it will stop people trying to steal your cookies
its hard to explain how it works ,read the site,
I found it on http://avatar.starried.net/ and they recommend it so.
Its for Firefox browser.

I've not had a look at this (but will) but I protect myself by using a
browser for Neopets and VPN only, and I visit no other site with it,
ever.

[Yellow]

Post by Yellow

Post by Back on Neo :)
As some of you know i was the victim of a cookie grabber ,soviet1918,
and the little s*ds took all my Nps ,
well i wouldnt wish that on anyone so i did a bit of searching and found
this
http://noscript.net/
its just as it sounds it will stop people trying to steal your cookies
its hard to explain how it works ,read the site,
I found it on http://avatar.starried.net/ and they recommend it so.
Its for Firefox browser.

I've not had a look at this (but will) but I protect myself by using a
browser for Neopets and VPN only, and I visit no other site with it,
ever.

Although I see from http://avatar.starried.net/ that they believe the
rouge software is running on neopets web pages - naughty if neopets have
not dealt with that within hours of being made aware of it!

Having a fully patched operating system and browser is always good
advice also.

[Back on Neo :)]

Hi Yellow yeah the neo grabber is from the neo site itself,
its in some of the shops,
if you see some very cheap in a shop alarm bells should go off.
but if you go ahead and try to buy it anyway and it is a grabber
this noscript will stop it.
note you will have to tell it to open the game screens
when you play a game, dont worry it will tell you how
to do this.

Post by Yellow

Post by Back on Neo :)
As some of you know i was the victim of a cookie grabber ,soviet1918,
and the little s*ds took all my Nps ,
well i wouldnt wish that on anyone so i did a bit of searching and found
this
http://noscript.net/
its just as it sounds it will stop people trying to steal your cookies
its hard to explain how it works ,read the site,
I found it on http://avatar.starried.net/ and they recommend it so.
Its for Firefox browser.

I've not had a look at this (but will) but I protect myself by using a
browser for Neopets and VPN only, and I visit no other site with it,
ever.

[Sandie .]

Thank you, Soviet, for pointing out this lovely add-on. I have installed
it in my Firefox browser. (I'll have to see if there is an equivalent
option for Galeon, or at least have my husband investigate. I play VPN
in Firefox and Neopets in Galeon, both on my Ubuntu 8.4 box.)

It's really too bad that we need these patches/add-ons/etc. I guess I'm
not going to be doing too much buying in the next few weeks. All the
more time for VPN!

--
Sandie

[Yellow]

Post by Sandie .
Thank you, Soviet, for pointing out this lovely add-on. I have installed
it in my Firefox browser. (I'll have to see if there is an equivalent
option for Galeon, or at least have my husband investigate. I play VPN
in Firefox and Neopets in Galeon, both on my Ubuntu 8.4 box.)
It's really too bad that we need these patches/add-ons/etc. I guess I'm
not going to be doing too much buying in the next few weeks. All the
more time for VPN!

VPN had a brief problem with a cookie grabber too when someone posted a
link to a site on their forum. The bug was fixed in matter of hours
though and of course the beauty of VPN is that we know it has been fixed
because Adam has told us so.

I am sure, because of the commercial risk, that bugs that allow know
cookie grabbers to infect Neopets are fixed almost as quickly but sadly
Neopets are not open about these issues so we are left wondering and
concerned.