[phoneguy55]

I just ran Spybot and saw that it had a few little changes since last run.....one was an option to alert you when spyware is being blocked....I checked it just to see how it worked. Ironically the first site I went to was this one and every page load yields a popup warning that "Avenue A inc" has been blocked. Is this some kind of tracking cookie that has always been there, but now is being flagged?

obviously I will need to turn off the popup warning in Spybot
....( there is now an option to silently block also)

all this stuff is under a new menu item in Spybot called immunization....

just wondering what your thoughts are on this........

[hewee]

phoneguy55,

Yes it is a tracking cookie. I just had the same pop-up on Spybot the other day for "Avenue A inc".

Just block it and go on your way.

[Whipersnaper]

HI!

So, why on THIS site should there be a tracking cookie?!??

[Gordon7000]

Hi phoneguy55,

There's a bit more info here about the former Avenue A Inc. cookies.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/in...7&hl=avenue+a&

Regards, Gordon

[bareznacoff]

Hello. I did a google search for Avenue A inc,. and I ended up at this forum. I constanly get a message from SpyBot that it has blocked the downloading of Avenue A inc,. I wrote an email to the company http://www.avenuea.com/ and asked them why I was getting notices that they were attempting to download tracking device on my PC. We'll go figure, NO REPLY! It does get alittle annoying after a while. Is there a way so SpyBot stops announcing it is stopping the download every time.. thanks.

[Top Banana]

Spybot S&D > Immunize > Block all bad pages silently.

[Cosmic]

These Avenue A claims that it is no longer an active collecting unit under the old name is probably as bogus as a three dollar bill.

They want you to believe, "they upgraded" and the old vacuum cleaner is just out there sucking up information but not connected to anything. I have a bridge to sell you. Yeah, yeah ..... they even go to great trouble to only give you Blank or Dummy cookies. Why not just give me like NONE.

This is an extremely aggressive collection agency. I finally did get Spy-Bot to quit reporting it as being found. I blocked it via the TOOLS>INTERNET>PRIVACY route. My bad guy list is:

http://www.gator.com/

http://www.advertising.com/

http://www.cj.com/

http://www.commission-junction.com/

http://www.doubleclick.com/

http://www.atlasdmt.com/

http://www.websidestory.com/

http://www.doubleclick.net/

http://www.edge.ru4.com/

http://images.trafficmp.com/

http://www.avenuea.com/

These appear to be the heavy hitters. Stop them and you stop most pop ups and a lot of cookie activity.

My cookie manager still captures them being very aggressive under atdmt.com/ and Lord knows how many other morphed alias. They are simply corralled and held in a bad guy list. I check the manager after any surfing session and dump the new batch of tame fellows it caught and is holding. The bad actors above are always caught in the act as well and flagged. I love to mash them like lil bugs.

My goal was to manage the cookies to let me see what was happening, weed out the bad ones automatically and just let me keep the 25 or so valid ones I really want. Finally seem to have accomplished that goal. Spy-Bot lately gives me a clean Bill of Health with nothing found. I didn't set it up to immunize.

Somebody has to figure out how to really mess with their little advertising twisted minds. I want to start reporting to them I just bought 1,000,000 left handed garden rakes at $39.95 each. Bogus, lying cookies; now there is a real need for the computing masses. BTW I am interested in buying Treenie pipes for my turbo-encabulator modular snorkelling unit next month.

>>>>

[NiteHawk]

Let me know who buys that bridge you have for sale. They can put it over the dry land I have for sale in southern Flordia!!

[WEEZER76]

HELLO,

I THINK I FIGURED OUT HOW TO STOP AVENUE A COOKIES FOR GOOD. I RELOADED THE AFFECTED WEBPAGE AND USED THE PACKET SNIFFER "NetworkActiv PIAFCTM 1.5" TO FIGURE OUT THAT ADS FROM "aboutwebservices.com" WERE CAUSING THE COOKIE TO BE PLACED ON MY SYSTEM. SO I THEN WENT TO THE WEBSITE BLOCKER ON MY FIREWALL "AGNITUM OUTPOST" AND ENTERED THAT WEBSITE. NO MORE AVENUE A COOKIE ALERTS.

REGARDS,
W.R.