the same spyware culprits again and again!

[rkid1]

Hello, sorry if i'm missing something totally obvious.

I use firefox and use spybot regularly. I always have the latest updates before runnng a check and i'm always fully immunized.

However when i run a check I always find it's the same pieces of spyware again and again. advertising.com, mediaplex, adrevolver, doubleclick e.t.c.

Is there a way i can essentially create a block list to stop them? As it seems that every time i remove them they just appear again the next time i scan a few days later

[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.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot