meelymonster
2008-02-15, 21:38
Hi, I'm new to this forum, and hoping to find the cause to a strange little phenomenon I'm seeing. I tried searching the forum for a previous post on this and did not find one -- forgive me if I'm revisiting well-trodden ground.
I installed Spybot a couple weeks ago. I activated both resident features -- the TeaTimer and the SD Helper (or "IE helper"). They are both checked under the Tools/Resident menu in the Advanced section of the Spybot program. I did not use the Immunize feature.
The program seems to be working fine, except for one odd thing. On some web pages, the entire page will load except for some ad, which will remain blank. That makes sense -- it's being blocked by SD Resident. I've confirmed this by turning on the "Display dialog when blocking" option, and I do indeed get a notification of a bad URL being blocked. The weird part is, that the page never stops trying to load. On the bottom of the IE window is the message "Waiting for... " and the green progress bar, and it stays that way for as long as the window is open. No "Done" message. It doesn't really affect my usage of the page, to my knowledge, since the rest of the page is loaded in its entirety. But I'm concerned that the continuous page-hanging could be eating up my bandwidth or my computer processes.
When I deactivate the "SD Helper", reboot the computer, and revisit the web page, the problem doesn't occur, which seems to isolate the problem as something related to SD Helper.
One example of where it happens: I'm on news.yahoo.com, the whole page loads except for a small ad on the righthand side, and the page keeps waiting. When I activate the "Display dialog" option, the bad URL is listed as http://ad.yieldmanager.com/...... (it goes on for awhile) and is identified as "TagASaurus".
I'd really appreciate your feedback on this. Are other people seeing this same phenomenon? Is there a way to stop it? Should I be concerned about problems it could cause? I'm on an XP system with IE7. I have McAfee Security Center and AdAware (the free version, so no resident component active) in addition to the Spybot.
Oh, and one solution I explored: I noticed that when the problem happened, the Phishing Filter icon on the bottom of the IE window also seemed to be working interminably. I considered that the problem might be a conflict between SD Helper and IE Phishing Filter so I disabled Phishing Filter, rebooted, and revisited the web page, but the problem remained.
I installed Spybot a couple weeks ago. I activated both resident features -- the TeaTimer and the SD Helper (or "IE helper"). They are both checked under the Tools/Resident menu in the Advanced section of the Spybot program. I did not use the Immunize feature.
The program seems to be working fine, except for one odd thing. On some web pages, the entire page will load except for some ad, which will remain blank. That makes sense -- it's being blocked by SD Resident. I've confirmed this by turning on the "Display dialog when blocking" option, and I do indeed get a notification of a bad URL being blocked. The weird part is, that the page never stops trying to load. On the bottom of the IE window is the message "Waiting for... " and the green progress bar, and it stays that way for as long as the window is open. No "Done" message. It doesn't really affect my usage of the page, to my knowledge, since the rest of the page is loaded in its entirety. But I'm concerned that the continuous page-hanging could be eating up my bandwidth or my computer processes.
When I deactivate the "SD Helper", reboot the computer, and revisit the web page, the problem doesn't occur, which seems to isolate the problem as something related to SD Helper.
One example of where it happens: I'm on news.yahoo.com, the whole page loads except for a small ad on the righthand side, and the page keeps waiting. When I activate the "Display dialog" option, the bad URL is listed as http://ad.yieldmanager.com/...... (it goes on for awhile) and is identified as "TagASaurus".
I'd really appreciate your feedback on this. Are other people seeing this same phenomenon? Is there a way to stop it? Should I be concerned about problems it could cause? I'm on an XP system with IE7. I have McAfee Security Center and AdAware (the free version, so no resident component active) in addition to the Spybot.
Oh, and one solution I explored: I noticed that when the problem happened, the Phishing Filter icon on the bottom of the IE window also seemed to be working interminably. I considered that the problem might be a conflict between SD Helper and IE Phishing Filter so I disabled Phishing Filter, rebooted, and revisited the web page, but the problem remained.