Spybot quandary

[tony@well.com]

With the latest update for Spybot 1.2, I'm puzzled by the following:

Run it once: it reports and I ask it to fix:

Avenue A, Inc.: Tracking cookie or cookie of tracking site (File,
fixed)
C:\WINDOWS\delet\tony@atdmt[2].txt

DoubleClick: Tracking cookie or cookie of tracking site (File, fixed)
C:\WINDOWS\delet\tony@doubleclick[1].txt

MediaPlex: Tracking cookie or cookie of tracking site (File, fixed)
C:\WINDOWS\delet\tony@mediaplex[2].txt

Surf and browse for a few hours: it reports the same thing again.

Hence the quandary: should these not be blocked once they are "fixed"?
And is the "delet" directory created by Spybot?

T.
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Tony Roder, speaking his mind....

[mto]

<tony@well.com> wrote in message
news:ks30iv4tmkoq53cr68teieb6c9lrj6v2l6@4ax.com...
> With the latest update for Spybot 1.2, I'm puzzled by the following:
>
> Run it once: it reports and I ask it to fix:
>
> Avenue A, Inc.: Tracking cookie or cookie of tracking site (File,
> fixed)
> C:\WINDOWS\delet\tony@atdmt[2].txt
>
> DoubleClick: Tracking cookie or cookie of tracking site (File, fixed)
> C:\WINDOWS\delet\tony@doubleclick[1].txt
>
> MediaPlex: Tracking cookie or cookie of tracking site (File, fixed)
> C:\WINDOWS\delet\tony@mediaplex[2].txt
>
> Surf and browse for a few hours: it reports the same thing again.
>
> Hence the quandary: should these not be blocked once they are "fixed"?
> And is the "delet" directory created by Spybot?
>

Re should the cookies not be forever banished, unfortunately surf once and
they magically reappear in the ads you view at the sites you visit. Ways
around this -

Use ZA Pro to block all ads everywhere - and the cookies that come with
them.
Turn off all cookies.
Add doubleclick, avenueA and mediaplex servers to your blocked zone.

[tony@well.com]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:09:12 -0400, "mto" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

>Use ZA Pro to block all ads everywhere - and the cookies that come with
>them.

I've been climbing the learning curves one at a time... it looks like
it's ZA's turn now. Thanks.

T.

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Tony Roder, speaking his mind....