how do I stop repeat spies

[yoda108]

I keep on removing the same spies and adware, but they come back next week. How do I stop them forever reappearing? typical ones are adrevover, castalmedia, clickbank, doubleclick, hitbox, mediaplex, statcounter, tradedoubler and webtrends to mention the peskiest intruders.

[md usa spybot fan]

All of those detections sound like they may be tracking cookies which should be preventable.

To make sure, please post a log of the actual detections you are getting. To do that:

• Run another scan.
• When the scan completes, right click on the results list, select "Copy results to clipboard".
• Then paste (Ctrl+V) those results to a new post in this thread.

Thanks

[Springerrr]

I'm a Firefox user and have Clickbank in my blocked (tools>options>privacy>cookies>exceptions) list. Yet, everyday my daily Spybot scan comes up with a fresh clickbank hit. That's all....just clickbank. And idea how this is happening?

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

Doubleclick (and others like Advertising.com, Avenue A, Inc, CasaleMedia, Fastclick, Hitbox, Mediaplex etc.) are so-called tracking cookies. It is quite common for popular websites to employ such tracking cookies from third parties. They use them in order to track the users' surfing habits on their websites. As I said, these cookies are from third parties but they are employed by the site. There is a tool in Spybot-S&D: BrowserHelper, i.e. a bad download blocker for Internet Explorer. With this tool enabled such tracking cookies will be blocked. In order to activate this tool, please run Spybot-S&D and go to the "Tools"->"Resident" page. Checking the checkbox in front of SDHelper will enable the BrowserHelper.

Now open the Tools menu in your Internet Explorer and choose 'Spybot - Search Destroy Configuration'.
There you will find a drop down menu which will appear giving you some options.
(3rd picture)
You should select "Block all bad pages silently".
With that option set the notifications will no longer come up, but you will still have the protection.
Further choose "Spybot-S&D->Immunize" from the navigation bar on the left.
Now the baddies are blocked.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot