Preserved Topic: doubleclick/valueclick

Doubleclick.net and valueclick are the adwares that I keep getting and can't get rid of. Is there a way I can keep a dummy file on my computer that wont get over-writen when I contract the adware again?

you could try and make a dummy read-only file that has the same name as the adware... i don't know if that would work, you'd have to try.


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Inition: Are Doubleclick.net and valueclick cookies?

If so and you have IE 6 does this:-

Open up the cookie and get the copy URL for it. You can use the Doubleclick.net but sometimes there like ad.boubleclick.net so use the cookie URL.

Open IE then go - tools> internet options> security tab> restricted sites> sites box.

Now paste the url in the "add web site to this zone" then click add, now every time that cookies tries to set itself on your computer IE will bock it.

If you use opera or mozilla they ask if you want to set a cookie to the site you on, so it's you call weather to or not.

Hope that helps

yes they where cookies. The web address in the cookies was all coded so I typed in valueclick.net and doubleclick.net in the restricted portion of IE. Seems to work

go download AdSubtract at http://www.adsubtract.com/ I never have any problems with doubleclick since I started using it. You may also need to get some spyprogram removal software.... ummm I can't remember the name. Anyone remember?

Yes, it's AdAware

Later,
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Hey, just found this handy dandy little program. Monitors your cookies for you. You can do all kinds of stuff with it that I won't go into here. Check it out: http://www.winpatrol.com/

Later,
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Just a note. These are just cookies not adware as it were. doubleclick is by far the largest provider of ad services on the web so there's almost no way to avoid those ads.

(they use iframe's wherever possible so that all their ads can come off of one domain and they can track you better).

You can opt-out of doubleclick and valueclick (go to their site and click on the privacy link and follow the opt-out options they use popups and I don't want to track down the URL).

Finally in ie6 (maybe 5+ dunno about mozilla) you have the option of refusing cookies from certain domains where you can refuse these cookies



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Yeah, I should have mentioned something about that program. If you find a cookie in your list, you can highlite it and then tell it to refuse cookies from that URL.

Kind of nifty little feature also is that you can see all the info about the cookie. Instead of searching through temp files and stuff.

But yeah, doubleclick and those sites all operate on those damn cookies they set.

Later,
C:\


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