The "spyware" site, cdn.insights.gravity.com, is at an alias of 
a1093.g.akamai.net. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies. 
I could be wrong, but I'll bet it's not really spyware, but is a 
legitimate attempt to speed up the slow loading about which Konstantin 
complained.

Steven Yellin

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:41:34AM -0400, john h outlan wrote:
>> http://scientificlinux.proboards.com
>
>
> The forum is slow to load and contains some kind of spyware
> from http://cdn.insights.gravity.com/moth_v1.swf.
>
> Personally, I would not use it.
>
> Good luck building a community around it.
>
>
> -- 
> Konstantin Olchanski
> Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
> Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca
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