is it POSSIBLE to track people who visit your blog (any way at all)? And how dangerous can those sorts of viruses be?

recently I started visiting a few and wound up with a virus called stauscheck/statfind, or something like that - I forgot.

It was out of PLACE (from my usual viruses) so I looked it up and it turned out to be a blog monitoring tool that tracks IP numbers, telling the site owner how often the number visits. Apparently, it monitors the guest's COOKIES as his web page loads the site, sending the info back to the site owner so he/she knows how you found them.

the thing is, I know the people I visited, and I don't feel very COMFORTABLE knowing they might be able to see what I'm doing online.

As we al know, viruses are 100% illegal. All I can tell you is buy great protection. If you need help finding one, start a new topic asking for opinions. Because this topic has the potential of becoming a "how to create a virus" or "how to insert a virus" thread, I will be locking it. This thread may or may not stay locked, depending on admin decision.