[OPLINTECH] Excite.com Question

[JKENZIG]

Excite is associated with Myway, MySearch, MyWebSearch, Iwon, and
MaxOnline. Several of these sites are known adware dispersal sites.  The
excite toolbar itself has been known on the internet to be particularly
tough to remove once you have it.  The Iwon spyware fiasco is well known
throughout the web. These incessant toolbars were littered with adware
and popups for quite some time.  I believe they were bought by askjeeves
a few years back 
And jeeves attempted to clean them up a bit. Now it is simply called
ask.com, by nature we block the excite site and its buddies via our
firewall because of the many problems it has created over the years on
our workstations. We do allow only the excite webmail site. 

Jim Kenzig
Network Manager
Cuyahoga County Public Library 

-----Original Message-----
From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org]
On Behalf Of Mindy Holmes
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:37 PM
To: oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINTECH] Excite.com Question

I had a patron today who tried to sign into his Excite.com account.  Our
computers gave him an error message stating that the privacy settings
needed to be set lower to accept the cookies from Excite.com.  The only
setting that would allow access to Excite.com was "Accept all cookies".
I am not comfortable with that setting.  I then noticed that Excite.com
was listed in the Sites section as "always block".  This appears to be a
default setting in IE.  Here are my questions:

 

  Is Excite.com notorious for spyware/malware?  Is that why it is
blocked in the default
settings?

 

  Has anyone else experienced this problem?  If so, what did you do?

 

Thanks for your input,

 

Mindy Holmes

Mason Public Library

holmesme at oplin.org