Spybot Search and Destroy ??

[Tom Reynolds]

I think the Spybot program is great, it does everything
it is supposed to do, but how do I get rid of the little popup
box that says "Spybot-S&D has blocked the download of Avenue A"
It pops up every time I open IE or check hotmail.
TIA,
Tom

[mto]

"Tom Reynolds" <tom42344@notmail.com> wrote in message
news:vj8diejergko1b@corp.supernews.com...
> I think the Spybot program is great, it does everything
> it is supposed to do, but how do I get rid of the little popup
> box that says "Spybot-S&D has blocked the download of Avenue A"
> It pops up every time I open IE or check hotmail.
> TIA,
> Tom
>

Well I suppose that you can turn that function off if you wish but that
would be foolish. Avenue A is spyware. You have immunized your machine, so
Spybot S& D blocks downloads of known spyware to protect you.

The Avenue A is coming from advertising on the pages that you visit. I
would suggest that you change your home page to almost anything of your
choice that is NOT - msn, msnbc, foxnews, cnet, zdnet or download.com, all
of which serve up Avenue A and similar programs in their ads frequently.
And while you are at it, get a real email address

You can also view source on the pages where this is occuring and hunt for
the links to the various ad servers. Ad those domains to your Blocked sites
file.

ZoneAlarm Pro provides a very good ad/script/popup blocking function that
will stop much of this, as will turning off activeX, java, javascript & auto
downloads in IE/Tools/OPtions

[YK]

mto wrote:
> "Tom Reynolds" <tom42344@notmail.com> wrote in message
> news:vj8diejergko1b@corp.supernews.com...
>> I think the Spybot program is great, it does everything
>> it is supposed to do, but how do I get rid of the little popup
>> box that says "Spybot-S&D has blocked the download of Avenue A"
>> It pops up every time I open IE or check hotmail.
>> TIA,
>> Tom
>
> Well I suppose that you can turn that function off if you wish but
> that would be foolish. Avenue A is spyware. You have immunized your
> machine, so Spybot S& D blocks downloads of known spyware to protect
> you.
>
> The Avenue A is coming from advertising on the pages that you visit.
> I would suggest that you change your home page to almost anything of
> your choice that is NOT - msn, msnbc, foxnews, cnet, zdnet or
> download.com, all of which serve up Avenue A and similar programs in
> their ads frequently. And while you are at it, get a real email
> address
>
> You can also view source on the pages where this is occuring and hunt
> for the links to the various ad servers. Ad those domains to your
> Blocked sites file.

Do you mean the HOSTS file?
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

> ZoneAlarm Pro provides a very good ad/script/popup blocking function
> that will stop much of this, as will turning off activeX, java,
> javascript & auto downloads in IE/Tools/OPtions

[mto]

"YK" <YKnot@home.invalid> wrote in message
news:_kXYa.131314$rsJ.64805@news04.bloor.is.net.ca ble.rogers.com...
> mto wrote:
> > "Tom Reynolds" <tom42344@notmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:vj8diejergko1b@corp.supernews.com...
> >> I think the Spybot program is great, it does everything
> >> it is supposed to do, but how do I get rid of the little popup
> >> box that says "Spybot-S&D has blocked the download of Avenue A"
> >> It pops up every time I open IE or check hotmail.
> >> TIA,
> >> Tom
> >
> > Well I suppose that you can turn that function off if you wish but
> > that would be foolish. Avenue A is spyware. You have immunized your
> > machine, so Spybot S& D blocks downloads of known spyware to protect
> > you.
> >
> > The Avenue A is coming from advertising on the pages that you visit.
> > I would suggest that you change your home page to almost anything of
> > your choice that is NOT - msn, msnbc, foxnews, cnet, zdnet or
> > download.com, all of which serve up Avenue A and similar programs in
> > their ads frequently. And while you are at it, get a real email
> > address
> >
> > You can also view source on the pages where this is occuring and hunt
> > for the links to the various ad servers. Ad those domains to your
> > Blocked sites file.
>
> Do you mean the HOSTS file?
> http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
<SNIP>

If you use IE under Tools/Options you can block sites as you see fit.
Supposed to be for parental control but works well for blocking ads too.
You can do the same with ZA. I enter them in both just in case. You could
just as well stick them in your hosts file.

[mto]

"Cuthbert J. Twillie" <Cuthbert.J.Twillie@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:a7h8jvsr1lqn53atjbl6bf5h646fghdlkn@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 16:46:21 -0700, "Tom Reynolds" <tom42344@notmail.com>
wrote:
> >I think the Spybot program is great, it does everything
> >it is supposed to do, but how do I get rid of the little popup
> >box that says "Spybot-S&D has blocked the download of Avenue A"
> >It pops up every time I open IE or check hotmail.
> >TIA,
> >Tom
>
> You can turn off the "notification" in Spybot's immunize area, then change
the notify option to
> block silently.
>

You CAN - but I wouldn't. Sites that are either doing this themselves or
serving ads that are doing this require lots of extra caution. If you turn
off the notification, how would you even know?

[Jay T. Blocksom]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 16:46:21 -0700, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "Tom Reynolds"
<tom42344@notmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think the Spybot program is great, it does everything
> it is supposed to do, but how do I get rid of the little popup
> box that says "Spybot-S&D has blocked the download of Avenue A"
[snip]

Uhhh... Stop trying to download the "Avenue A" trojan, perhaps?

Wherever you are, or whatever you're doing when that alarm goes off, DON'T
GO BACK THERE!

I mean, isn't that just frickin' *obvious*?!?

> It pops up every time I open IE or check hotmail.
[snip]

Well, there's at least half your problem right there. Here's the permanent
cure:

<http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html>

--

Jay T. Blocksom
--------------------------------
Appropriate Technology, Inc.
usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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[mto]

"Jay T. Blocksom" <usenet01+SPAMBLOCK@appropriate-tech.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 16:46:21 -0700, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "Tom
Reynolds"
> <tom42344@notmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think the Spybot program is great, it does everything
> > it is supposed to do, but how do I get rid of the little popup
> > box that says "Spybot-S&D has blocked the download of Avenue A"
> [snip]
>
> Uhhh... Stop trying to download the "Avenue A" trojan, perhaps?
>
> Wherever you are, or whatever you're doing when that alarm goes off, DON'T
> GO BACK THERE!
>
> I mean, isn't that just frickin' *obvious*?!?
>
> > It pops up every time I open IE or check hotmail.
> [snip]
>
<SNIP> Might be obvious to you but to those of us that might like to ever
visit any of the US news sites, cnet. download.com and more than half of the
stuff on my favorites menu it just isn't that easy. The danged thing is
being served up by a third party ad. And sometimes, even if your don't like
IE you use what you've got.

[Jay T. Blocksom]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 06:58:50 -0400, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "mto"
<nobody@dontsendmeanyspam.com> wrote:
>
[snip]

> <SNIP> Might be obvious to you but to those of us that might like to
> ever visit any of the US news sites, cnet. download.com and more than
> half of the stuff on my favorites menu it just isn't that easy.
[snip]

Nonsense. Sheer, utter NONESENSE.

As a little experiment, inspired by your claim above, I just used Opera
v3.62 -- surely the most long-in-the tooth browser in my arsenal, save for
an old copy of Netscape 3.04D -- to visit the following sites:

<http://abcnews.go.com/>
<http://www.cnn.com/>
<http://www.cnn.com/US/>
<http://www.foxnews.com/index.html>
<http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/>
<http://www.nytimes.com/>
<http://www.reuters.com/>
<http://www.usatoday.com/>
<http://www.usnewslink.com/>
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm>
<http://www.usnewswire.com/>
<http://news.com.com/>
<http://www.cnet.com/>

and yes, even:

<http://download.com.com/2001-20-0.html?legacy=cnet>

ALL of them functioned without incident; and that was with all extraneous
crap (scripting, cookies, etc.) disabled both internally and via
Proxomitron.

Why are you determined to promote the use of MSIE, specifically by spreading
baseless FUD?

> And sometimes, even if your don't like IE you use what you've got.
>

Only if, despite lip-service and posturing to the contrary, you really don't
care about things like system security, privacy invasion, trojan/virus
infection, etc. -- or have some other, unstated, agenda.

Get this through your head: There is *never* a valid reason to use MSIE for
anything other than to immediately download a replacement browser.

--

Jay T. Blocksom
--------------------------------
Appropriate Technology, Inc.
usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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[mto]

"Jay T. Blocksom" <usenet01+SPAMBLOCK@appropriate-tech.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 06:58:50 -0400, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "mto"
> <nobody@dontsendmeanyspam.com> wrote:
> Get this through your head: There is *never* a valid reason to use MSIE
for
> anything other than to immediately download a replacement browser.

Of course there is. Perhaps you are using your employer's machine and he
does not care to have any software other than that he specifically approves
installed to the machine. Perhaps one does not wish to muck around with an
OS that is already problematic. Perhaps one does not LIKE Opera or Mozilla.
Perhaps one has once or twice been burned in a big way by installing Opera
or Netscape and refuses to repeat the experience. Perhaps one likes IE -
some do you know. Perhaps one is simply unaware or couldn't care less that
anything else might be available. All of those are valid reasons to
continue to use IE even if Your Highness does not approve.

When are you going to get down off your high horse and acknowledge that the
95% of the universe that happens to use IE is just as entitled to privacy
and security as you are - without having to jump through hoops and install
alternate programming to get it?

[YK]

null@zilch.com wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:47:19 -0400, Jay T. Blocksom
> <usenet01+SPAMBLOCK@appropriate-tech.net> wrote:
>
>> Get this through your head: There is *never* a valid reason to use
>> MSIE for anything other than to immediately download a replacement
>> browser.
>
> M$ may not allow you to download OS security patches without IE. So
> there are two valid reasons to use IE before you eradicate it.

Third reason: You have to figure out if you need the update and the
sequence to install the updates yourself.

> I guess XP users are out of luck, though, since IEradicator isn't
specified to
> work with it.

I would call that lucky.

> OTOH, there are absolutely _no_ valid reasons for using OE or Outlook.

There are two valid reasons. 1. I hate Forte Agent. 2. I like OE.

OE locked down to read only text messages and only run in the Restricted
Zone which is turned on by default by latest OE updates.
It even automatically locks down opening attachements.