On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, "hardofhearing" <me@some.impossiblex.hideout.com> wrote:
>Hello, I ask this in genuine search of understanding/learning.
>
>I posted a question earlier in this group (subject atdmt, posted 20-1-07)
>and had absolutely no replies.
>
>Was this because of the way i composed the question, the subject matter or
>what?
>
>Or just one of those days?

Out of curiosity, I looked it up. Your story checks out,
but I have no clue what the answer might be.

Ckypp

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>My sister in law has had a problem (DELL computer using WinXP SP2, I.E. 7) -
>whenever she tried to use ebay, whatever she searched for, she would be
>redirected to Dell's own search page. I spotted right at the end of this
>process a message that it was opening 127.0.0.1 On the Dell page there was
>always the same message that a site couldn't be found. I didn't make a note
>of the full address, but saw that it contained //view.atdmt.com.
>
>I had a look in the hosts file that i had installed for her a while ago
>(MVPS) - and sure enough there was a reference to atdmt.com. When I disabled
>the HOSTS file, ebay started working fine, and if I reneabled it, ebay
>stopped working again.
>
>I also looked in the registry and there was a reference to atdmt.com in
>HKEY-LOCAL-MACHINE .......P3P/History
>
>I ran the latest version of Windows defender - found nothing. Downloaded the
>free version of SuperAntiSpyware, and it found nothing other than tracking
>cookies which I allowed it to get rid of.
>
>A Google search talks about atdmt.com as spyware, but SAS and Defender found
>nothing
>
>So can anyone explain:
>
>- what atdmt.com is
>- why should it's presence in the HOSTS file be blocking ebay
>- would you expect SAS to find and deal with it
>
>
>I've since checked on my own computer, and the reference to it is in my
>HOSTS file as well, but it has no effect on using ebay