Double click.....
- Thread starter Persimmon
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Do you mean the data-gathering spy cookie site?
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/index.aspx
What is it doing that you don't like?
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/index.aspx
What is it doing that you don't like?
Thank you for the replies, JohnD and Softus. Actually my question was misleading 
It is really Spybot that is driving me mad in that it keeps popping up messages that it has blocked Double Click and I have to keep clicking OK before I can continue what I was doing. I am of course very pleased that Spybot is intercepting it (and Adviva) so successfully. What I was hoping for is a way to stop it before it gets in to be stopped by Spybot......
Wanting the impossible, I suppose ?
Perry
It is really Spybot that is driving me mad in that it keeps popping up messages that it has blocked Double Click and I have to keep clicking OK before I can continue what I was doing. I am of course very pleased that Spybot is intercepting it (and Adviva) so successfully. What I was hoping for is a way to stop it before it gets in to be stopped by Spybot...... Wanting the impossible, I suppose ?
Perry
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Not impossible at all.
I recommend that you start by downloading and running Lavasoft Ad-Aware.
Also, make sure that you've run a full scan using Spybot.
I suggest that you run them after a fresh boot, without having started Internet Explorer.
I recommend that you start by downloading and running Lavasoft Ad-Aware.
Also, make sure that you've run a full scan using Spybot.
I suggest that you run them after a fresh boot, without having started Internet Explorer.
Softus's idea is a good thing to do on any PC, especially when new. I update my hosts file regularly from here...
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
The hosts file is basically an address book for your internet browsing. Every URL (web address) you enter refers to specific ip address out on the internet. You can see this in action by doing this.
Enter your Start menu. Goto RUN and type in "cmd". Hit OK. This will bring up a black box. Now type in "ping www.google.com". Providing your machine is working well (I assume it is since you are reading this). You should see the following line :
Pinging www.l.google.com [66.249.93.104] with 32 bytes of data:
Those numbers are the IP address of that site. When you browse a website you are really looking at those numbers instead of the address, but we use names for websites so we can remember them and it makes more sense to our minds.
Back to the hosts file. This file is a simple address book that links the names (urls -- whatever you call them) to those 4 numbers. The computer will check the hosts file before it looks to the internet for those numbers.
The trick in the hosts file is to fool the computer into thinking the URL's of site you DONT want contact with are actually on your own computer (which has a ip of 127.0.0.1). By doing this you deny any nasties in the background from being able to contact home -- because you are making them contact yourself.
Enter your Start menu. Goto RUN and type in "cmd". Hit OK. This will bring up a black box. Now type in "ping www.google.com". Providing your machine is working well (I assume it is since you are reading this). You should see the following line :
Pinging www.l.google.com [66.249.93.104] with 32 bytes of data:
Those numbers are the IP address of that site. When you browse a website you are really looking at those numbers instead of the address, but we use names for websites so we can remember them and it makes more sense to our minds.
Back to the hosts file. This file is a simple address book that links the names (urls -- whatever you call them) to those 4 numbers. The computer will check the hosts file before it looks to the internet for those numbers.
The trick in the hosts file is to fool the computer into thinking the URL's of site you DONT want contact with are actually on your own computer (which has a ip of 127.0.0.1). By doing this you deny any nasties in the background from being able to contact home -- because you are making them contact yourself.
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The amount of effort I and my collegues put into Double Click, and there you are removing it (You could of course just turn off Javascript) Just goto the site mentioned above :
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
"Download: hosts.zip [right-click - Select: Save Target As] [Updated 11-01-07]"
Unzip that and run "mvps.bat"
Done.
Thank you bron..... I'll have a lie down first and maybe a stiff drink ! That looks even more frightening than Softus - Unfortunately the part of the brain that makes all that stuff a piece of cake to people like you and Softus is missing in some of us.
(Hopefully we have other talents to compensate....) That is not to say however that I am not very grateful to both of you for taking the time to try to educate me and I will print off the instructions and try to follow them. Perry
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