Yieldmanager.com

[ricyaun]

picked up a Right Media ad.yieldmanger.com infection. Had to run spybot twice to get rid of it. Can't find any right media or yieldmanager folders using windows explorer with all files open. I still have a cookie called yieldmanager.com. When Spybot first removed the infection ad.yieldmanager.com popped backup right next to it.
Anybody seen this before. I have seen this behavior before on other infections, but I wasn't a member of the Spybot forum then. This is my first thread ever on a forum. HI EVERYBODY! Not much of a joiner, but I have been running spybot for at least 10 years. It has really improved in that time. It is very impressive these days. Only spyware software I actually trust. Everything else is suspect until proven innocent, and I don't really give them a chance.
So anybody know if yieldmanager.com cookie is associated with ad.yieldmanager.com?

Later gang gotta go. I'll be watching to see what the answer is. Maybe got a new trojan that isn't being recognized yet. Gonna run spybot in safe mode to see what I get.

ricyaun

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

YieldManager, RightMedia, 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.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd15/index.html (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

[Gkdls]

Every time I run Spybot, get Right Media, click fix, next time I would run Spybot, would get same message, never fixed. I put that in the restricted sites, still would show up. Would do a search for Right Media, could never find it.

Last night first time to read the forum so glad I did, had never heard of ad.yieldmanager.com, I did a search by putting in www.ad.yieldmanager.com, showed the location, clicked on the file, went to Suddenlink with a message they had partened with a company to give them this information of usage on my computer, they had a check box to disable this if you do not want that cookie on your computer. Suddenlink is my internet service, did not know this is where that cookie was coming from.

If you are having Right Media show up when you do a Spybot check, you might try this also, track down the location and disable it.

Thanks for the name of ad.yieldmanager.com, now I am free from Right Media.

Gkdls