WEB BUGS

Web bugs are invisible bits of data, frequently a pixel in size (sometimes called clear GIFs), that can track all your activities on a website and report it back to a server.  Sometimes, the web site the bugs
send info to isn't the one that contains the web bug.

Web bugs can send the following information:

 

1.   The IP address of your computer

2.   The URL page of which the web bug is located, so they know u visited the page

3.   The time the web bug was viewed, so they know exactly when you visited the page

4.   The URL of the web bug image

5.   The type of browser you have

6.   The values of certain cookies (generally only cookies set by the web site that the bug resides on)

 

Bugnosis is software that alerts you to pages that use/have web bugs.  This software does not eradicate the web bugs, rather it only alerts you to it's presence so you can possibly avoid that web site.