Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode

Re:Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track u... by josefx on Sunday August 18, 2019 @06:52AM (#20729474)

You would need a document whitelist since many programs can be hijacked using buffer overflow attacks or outright support execution of arbritrary scripts.

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Re:Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track u... by throwamay1241 on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:42AM (#20736000)

I'll also point out that defending against buffer overflows which are considered vulnerabilities is a far saner boundary than a blacklist of files which grows infinitely.

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Re:Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track u... by throwamay1241 on Sunday August 18, 2019 @06:36PM (#20733405)

Or we could, you know, just stop using Microsoft Office and Adobe products which are a huge, if not the biggest culprit of that kind of crazy behaviour.

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