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May 30, 2014 09:42:20 #
In the last two days I have noticed a blank area at the top of the screen. It is actually an advertisement for Google DoubleClick.net - an annoying company that reads what you type and sells the data to advertising companies.
Click that area and you could end up with just another piece of spyware on your computer.
Click that area and you could end up with just another piece of spyware on your computer.
May 30, 2014 09:52:49 #
Searcher wrote:
In the last two days I have noticed a blank area at the top of the screen. It is actually an advertisement for Google DoubleClick.net - an annoying company that reads what you type and sells the data to advertising companies.
Click that area and you could end up with just another piece of spyware on your computer.
Click that area and you could end up with just another piece of spyware on your computer.
This should be illegal
May 30, 2014 09:54:36 #
Thank you for the alert of this spyware. I'd like to know how to block the Web address of this program so it never reaches my computer system. Any suggestions?
Searcher wrote:
In the last two days I have noticed a blank area at the top of the screen. It is actually an advertisement for Google DoubleClick.net - an annoying company that reads what you type and sells the data to advertising companies.
Click that area and you could end up with just another piece of spyware on your computer.
Click that area and you could end up with just another piece of spyware on your computer.
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May 30, 2014 10:01:07 #
Michael66
Loc: Queens, New York
Searcher wrote:
In the last two days I have noticed a blank area at the top of the screen. It is actually an advertisement for Google DoubleClick.net - an annoying company that reads what you type and sells the data to advertising companies.
Click that area and you could end up with just another piece of spyware on your computer.
Click that area and you could end up with just another piece of spyware on your computer.
I get an empty white box. But that may well because I have DoubleClick.net in my hosts file pointing back to 127.0.0.1. I do not have regular google ads blocked as they pay for this site and are out in the open.
May 30, 2014 10:01:14 #
Searcher wrote:
In the last two days I have noticed a blank area at the top of the screen. It is actually an advertisement for Google DoubleClick.net - an annoying company that reads what you type and sells the data to advertising companies.
Click that area and you could end up with just another piece of spyware on your computer.
Click that area and you could end up with just another piece of spyware on your computer.
That is probably a worm on your own PC - not on the web site.
Norton Internet Security seems to be protecting me from that one and McAfee or some other security program can also protect you.
May 30, 2014 10:02:06 #
Searcher wrote:
In the last two days I have noticed a blank area at the top of the screen. It is actually an advertisement for Google DoubleClick.net - an annoying company that reads what you type and sells the data to advertising companies.
Click that area and you could end up with just another piece of spyware on your computer.
Click that area and you could end up with just another piece of spyware on your computer.
Thanks for the info; I never noticed that before.
May 30, 2014 10:03:28 #
Michael66
Loc: Queens, New York
selmslie wrote:
That is probably a worm on your own PC - not on the web site.
Norton Internet Security seems to be protecting me from that one and McAfee or some other security program can also protect you.
Norton Internet Security seems to be protecting me from that one and McAfee or some other security program can also protect you.
No, not really. Its just another example of how Google has gone evil. Contrary to the corporate mission statement.
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May 30, 2014 10:06:08 #
selmslie wrote:
That is probably a worm on your own PC - not on the web site.
Norton Internet Security seems to be protecting me from that one and McAfee or some other security program can also protect you.
Norton Internet Security seems to be protecting me from that one and McAfee or some other security program can also protect you.
I found it because I accidently clicked on it, and my protection software blocked it and told me what it was. I then had options to allow it or block it totally.
May 30, 2014 10:06:35 #
Searcher wrote:
In the last two days I have noticed a blank area at the top of the screen. It is actually an advertisement for Google DoubleClick.net - an annoying company that reads what you type and sells the data to advertising companies.
Click that area and you could end up with just another piece of spyware on your computer.
Click that area and you could end up with just another piece of spyware on your computer.
I use AdblockPlus. Works great. Once it is installed you can specify which sites you wish to block ads on. I currently show no ads on UHH.
http://adblockplus.org/en/internet-explorer
May 30, 2014 10:12:05 #
Michael66
Loc: Queens, New York
jpintn wrote:
I use AdblockPlus. Works great. Once it is installed you can specify which sites you wish to block ads on. I currently show no ads on UHH.
http://adblockplus.org/en/internet-explorer
http://adblockplus.org/en/internet-explorer
Good for you, but realise, that it is the ads that pay for sites like these, keeping them free for us. At least the non-doubleclick boxes are clean, simple and unobstrusive. If we strt blocking ads, they may have to resort to more nefarious means.
May 30, 2014 10:15:12 #
I also have Adblockplus, but UHH is one of two sites I do allow ads on. Unfortunately, I have yet to see an ad that interests me, probably because I do not allow g.doubleclick.net
May 30, 2014 10:19:43 #
Searcher wrote:
I found it because I accidently clicked on it, and my protection software blocked it and told me what it was. I then had options to allow it or block it totally.
Lucky for you. I am wary when my mouse pointer gives me the finger.
But you may not have a mouse pointer on a tablet so you need to be careful with your own finger.
May 30, 2014 10:26:01 #
Maybe because I use an iPad for UHH (?) but I always have an ad in this area. ;)
May 30, 2014 10:29:01 #
selmslie wrote:
Lucky for you. I am wary when my mouse pointer gives me the finger.
But you may not have a mouse pointer on a tablet so you need to be careful with your own finger.
But you may not have a mouse pointer on a tablet so you need to be careful with your own finger.
I can't be doing with touch screens, touch tablets, touch phones - I like buttons and keyboards. One concession I made years ago was to buy a Wacom tablet. Even on that I have turned off the touch facility.
I can still use a finger though :thumbup: (sorry, its a thumb)
May 30, 2014 10:29:04 #
Michael66 wrote:
I get an empty white box. But that may well because I have DoubleClick.net in my hosts file pointing back to 127.0.0.1. I do not have regular google ads blocked as they pay for this site and are out in the open.
The IP address 127.0.0.1 is a special purpose address reserved for use on each computer. 127.0.0.1 is conventionally a computer's loopback address
http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=127.0.0.1%20i.p.
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