Right Media?

[summer64]

I'm hoping that someone can shed a little light on a problem that I have been having for quite a while. When I do a scan with Spybot, every week or two I pick up something called Right Media. Does anyone have any knowledge on what this is or how I may be picking it up. Along with slowing my machine down extremly and making it sticky, it is very frustrating.

Many thanks for any help,

Summer64.

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

RightMedia, YieldManager, 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.
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

[summer64]

Thanks so much Sandra. I will take your advice and follow your instructions regarding getting rid of my Right Media problem.

Best wishes

Summer64.

[summer64]

Recently I asked for helping regarding a problem I have been having for a while now, with continually picking up Right Media. Many thanks to Spybotsandra for your help. I followed your instructions to find that my settings were set as you instructed me to do. I'm still having the same problem with Right Media. Are there any more suggestions you could suggest for this problem to go away.

Many thanks,

Summer64.

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

You can also simply avoid all third party cookies by following the appropriate tutorial listed here (http://www.safer-networking.org/flash/howto/overview.html) (first three).

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

[summer64]

Thanls Sypbotsandra for your help once again. I've done as you said, so maybe this time I'll have better luck and perhaps be rid of Right Media for good.

Best wishes


Summer64.