HELP with Bad Cookies

Self | 11/10/2 | Varmint Al

[antaresequity]

I program. The registry is nothing more than a folder structure that holds string and binary data...Find the offending folder and delete it...(its no big deal)...obviously you dont mess with stuff that has to with the WinSys...the rest if fair game....

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Exactly. Moooozilla!

[Glutton]

Your suggestion works well unless the culprit has disguised the registry entries to make it hard for anyone but a pro to find.

I helped a friend clean out his computer after Lop.com "bombed" him (by virtue of him clicking on the wrong link) with a package that made Lop.Com the primary everything as far as the internet software on his machine.

Not only were registry entries very hard to find, I found that 'lop' itself as a word made any seach for 'lop' entries next to useless.

(The 'Lop.com' uninstall was next to useless. No surprise there.)

[airedale]

I had a similar problem with one doubleclick cookie and a fastclick cookie getting though somehow. I went to the Tools Menu. Then go to the Privacy tab and then choose the edit option. Then add the following domains to the list: doubleclick.net doubleclick.com fastclick.net fastclick.com x10.com (I have that one blocked but it was such an annoying ad that I wanted to make sure nothing ever gets in from them.).

The above will prevent them from getting in. I use AD/Subtract Pro for cookie control (other similar software exists but it's what I bought and it works great. It allows me to protect certain cookies (the ones that have a password that I want saved) and delete not only the tracking cookies but all the other ones, the history and the temp files. That gets rid of almost every problem cookie or other tracking junk. I then use Ad-Aware (don't forget to keep it up to date.) Finally I run another piece of freeware Spybot. It gets rid of everything else that doesn't belong. I run this about once a month. It’s a little work but well worth it.

[Varmint Al]

Thank you airedale. That is what I was looking for. It works great.

In Internet Explorer 5 here is what I did. Click on the following:

Tools
Internet Options
Security Tab
Click on Restricted sites
Click on Sites

Then Add this Web site to the zone: Type in the doubleclick.net
Then click on Add.

Continue till you have the sites listed that you want to block.

Adding:
doubleclick.com
fastclick.net
fastclick.com

This works great! Thank you airedale. Since your screen name is airedale, even Bart, my Black Lab thanks you.

[Varmint Al]

Here is a follow up of the Bad Cookie URL's that I have found so far:

http://ad.doubleclick.net
http://m2.doubleclick.net
http://m.doubleclick.net
*.doubleclick.net
*.doubleclick.com
*.fastclick.net
*.doubleclick.com
*.fastclick.net
*.fastclick.com
*.x10.com
http://cserver.mii.instacontent.net
*.instacontent.net
http://cserver.mii.instacontent.net
*.instacontent.net
*.instacontent.com
http://ww2.weatherbug.com
*.weatherbug.com
http://www.sharewareonline.com
*.weatherbug.com
http://www.sharewareonline.com
http://banners.valuead.com
http://banners.valuead.net
http://ads.yourfreedvds.com
http://ad.trafficmp.com
http://ads.yourfreedvds.com
http://ad.trafficmp.com
http://a248.g.akamaitech.net
http://www.netvisionsenterprises.com
http://z1.adserver.com
http://www.angelfire.com
http://z1.adserver.com
http://www.angelfire.com
http://us.a1.yimg.com
http://www.image.ft.com
http://info.accumail.com
http://shopping.webmarket.com
http://amch.questionmarket.com
http://clickit.go2net.com
servedby.advertising.com
servedby.advertising.net
*.servedby.advertising.*
servedby.advertising.us
*.servedby.advertising
http://img.mediaplex.com
http://view.atdmt.com
http://63.246.3.5

This is only a few weeks of effort to block them as they occur...