The Truth About Myspace Trackers

Understanding the Hype About IP Statistics

You've seen your friends posting numerous ads in your bulletins lately. And you have probably fell for some of these seemingly harmless trackers, that claim to give detailed statistics on who has been viewing your Myspace page. But do me, and everyone else who uses Myspace, please do not install programs to view who is looking at your page on your MySpace site. Anyone who uses such codes/programs are compromising the safety and security of the whole network. This is the very reason why Myspace works to vigoursly to ban and block such attempts to track page visits.

They are ingenious little programs that let you see who's been peeking at your MySpace site, but the huge downside is that it IS spyware and creating an open door to your computer as a platform for hackers. Even if you have a firewall in place or a hardwired router; you have now done their job for them by happily copying and pasting the code into your Myspace which allows access into personal information. As soon as you copy and paste the code into your profile, hackers now have full access to your IP address and the IP address of anyone who is on your site. Furthermore, anyone who is familiar with intermediate level html/java will understand what the code does. Unfortunately many Myspacers trust various sites that post up code for them to alter the layout of their profile, and before you know it your Myspace is an advertisement of various sites, and susceptible to hackers.