[Davey7549]

Kudos to Kento
Expanding on Kentos' tip blocking doubleclick:
"In IE go to tools, select internet options. Select the security tab. Click the restricted sites icon and then the sites button. Add this website to zone.

[type in]

*.doubleclick.com then hit the add button.

[type in]

*.doubleclick.net then hit add and ok on out.

I used the same technique to block
*.valueclick.com
*.valueclick.net
*.phase2media.com
*.admonitor.com
*.admonitor.net
*.190.com
*.flycast.com
My wife and I have been using the net as usual for days now and have had no problems with these blocks. I also might note that Ad Aware has not found anything in days!
Thanks for the idea Kento works great so far!
Dave

[CopperWhat?]

Another site you can add to that block is *.gator.com

[Kento]

No problem Dave. Another to add would be *.gohip.com.

[AcaCandy]

And if anyone is unlucky enough to have been hit with gohip's not so cool feature of changing your default home page, I found this:

http://gohip.com/remove_browser_enhancement.html

[jenni73]

I know this is a 'roll your eyes' question...but, when you do that so you type in the star also?
By the way..thats a great idea!

[Davey7549]

Jenni
Yes the * asterick is called a wild card. It accepts all charatures in its place. So the site might be http:www. and so on the * replaces the http:www
Have a good day Dave

[TimD]

this is great, thanks for posting this

[Shottel]

What is wrong with gator.com? I am not exactly what spyware is but I know that my PC has been exposed to this site. Is it like a virus?

[RandyG]

No, it's not a virus. It only tracks what you do on the Internet. It sees where you go, what you click on, what Banner ads you see, virtually everything that you see on the internet is seen by these "spyware" programs, and reported back.

People have a problem with many of these, as they see it as a Privacy issue, and fear "big brother".


You have probably been using Gator to store your Passwords for different sites, and now wonder of that is a problem. I also used to use Gator, until I decided not to. I didn't care that I was being traced at the time, as I felt that Gator was helping me with passwords. Then I started letting explorer remember the username and password instead, and started using products like ZoneAlarm a free firewall and Optout and Ad-Aware to remove the nasty little buggers from my system. You might even be surprised at how better your system performs, both off and on-line after they have been removed. You can get more info on Spyware by taking a look at the link in my signature, as well as visiting the other links I have provided.

[Davey7549]

Update
Over two weeks now and not a hitch on any sites we have surfed. Also Ad Aware has found nothing. Great, great, Great find Kento!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WannaKnow]

That's very helpful. I just got AdAware and I'm learning how to use it. Next, I need to learn how to use RegHance.
Thanks.
EDIT: I take that back. AdAware caused me lots of problems I think having to do with new.net. It knocked me off of the internet. I got rid of it for good.


[Edited by WannaKnow on 07-07-2001 at 10:19 PM]

[Dark Star]

Hi all,

I'm not sure I'm getting the whole picture here.

"Kudos to Kento" I just did a search using Kento and looked under tips and tricks and it brought me here to the top of this page and the first post being davey7549 on 05/22/01.

Who is Kento?, and where is his/her original post?

DS

[RandyG]

Kento is a member who helps out a lot.

I "think" the post that davey7549 was referring to is this one, but I'm not sure.


It all just breaks down to this, if you are irritated that some software you have downloaded is sending back little reports to its parent compnay, telling them what sites you visit, what software you download, etc, then by following the advice given on this thread, and running adaware, you can effectively circumvent the Spyware's attempts at using you as a statistic.


DoubleClick is a compnay that is notorious for loading spyware programs and cookies onto your system. It is not harmful, but does, in many people's opiniopns, skirt the privacy issue. If you want to know a little more about doubleclick, then read this thread.

[Dark Star]

RandyG,

Many thanks, that is the original post that you found and gave me and it was just what I was looking for, now I have the whole picture.
BTW, I do use ad-aware and will continue to do so, from now on I'll enter whatever it finds into the restricted zones and at some point I should come up with ad-aware finds 0 spyware files.

Regards,
DS

[RandyG]

Go here for a listing of "bad" sites that give you spyware cookies, and a nifty utility called Nasties.reg that you download and run to include all of the aforementioned sites in your "restricted" list.

I have run it, and now I have no problems with Spyware, unless I download something new, and forget to use my Spychecker resource.

Enjoy!