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Ad-aware has not even detected those cookies, including yieldmanager.
What puzzles me is the fact that the yieldmanager.com site seems to be down, yet cookie appears, confirming that something on my pc established the contact.
Spy-bot just came clean as well. Log attached.
Awaiting further instructions.
What puzzles me is the fact that the yieldmanager.com site seems to be down, yet cookie appears, confirming that something on my pc established the contact.
Spy-bot just came clean as well. Log attached.
Awaiting further instructions.
hi Diego,
thanks for the info. cookies are pretty harmless. your computer isnt really establishing the contact. when you view a website its very likely that the content including ads, links, graphics etc are pulled from other servers other than just the site your viewing. just have Ffox set to clear cookies when you exit it.
heres a screenshot of cookies i got after viewing and clicking a few links to read some items on my startpage yahoo:
thanks for the info. cookies are pretty harmless. your computer isnt really establishing the contact. when you view a website its very likely that the content including ads, links, graphics etc are pulled from other servers other than just the site your viewing. just have Ffox set to clear cookies when you exit it.
heres a screenshot of cookies i got after viewing and clicking a few links to read some items on my startpage yahoo:
Hi shelf life,
So, if I understand you correctly, there's nothing on my computer? If that is what you are saying, the ZA message leaves me with doubts, as it is clearly saying that my computer is trying to connect back to yieldmanager. From it I assumed that there's something on my pc actively trying to connect to a site I have no intention to visit.
If I have nothing, then the cookie is maybe trying to communicate back with the originating site in a way that sets ZA off? Puzzling as yieldmanager.com is not active site either.
What do you think is going on then? How do we explain the ZA message?
So, if I understand you correctly, there's nothing on my computer? If that is what you are saying, the ZA message leaves me with doubts, as it is clearly saying that my computer is trying to connect back to yieldmanager. From it I assumed that there's something on my pc actively trying to connect to a site I have no intention to visit.
If I have nothing, then the cookie is maybe trying to communicate back with the originating site in a way that sets ZA off? Puzzling as yieldmanager.com is not active site either.
What do you think is going on then? How do we explain the ZA message?
hi Diego,
ok lets try a online scan with panda even though all else looks ok. also download and run atf cleaner which is a good app to have and use regularly.
panda:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm
* Once you are on the Panda site click the Scan your PC button
* A new window will open...click the Check Now button
* Enter your Country
* Enter your State/Province
* Enter your e-mail address and click send (use a fake e-mail)
* Select either Home User or Company
* Click the big Scan Now button
* If it wants to install an ActiveX component allow it
* It will start downloading the files it requires for the scan (Note: It may take a couple of minutes)
* When download is complete, click on My Computer to start the scan
* When the scan completes, if anything malicious is detected, click the See Report button, then Save Report and save it to a convenient location. Post the contents of the ActiveScan report
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atfCleaner:
ATF Cleaner by Atribune.
http://www.atribune.org/ccount/click.php?id=1
Double-click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program.
Under Main choose: Select All
Click the Empty Selected button.
If you use Firefox browser
Click Firefox at the top and choose: Select All
Click the Empty Selected button.
NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please click No at the prompt.
Double-click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program.
Under Main choose: Select All
Click the Empty Selected button.
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just to make sure: the adyieldmanager warning in ZA only pops up when you are going to operamail? and not randomly at other times?
shelf life
ok lets try a online scan with panda even though all else looks ok. also download and run atf cleaner which is a good app to have and use regularly.
panda:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm
* Once you are on the Panda site click the Scan your PC button
* A new window will open...click the Check Now button
* Enter your Country
* Enter your State/Province
* Enter your e-mail address and click send (use a fake e-mail)
* Select either Home User or Company
* Click the big Scan Now button
* If it wants to install an ActiveX component allow it
* It will start downloading the files it requires for the scan (Note: It may take a couple of minutes)
* When download is complete, click on My Computer to start the scan
* When the scan completes, if anything malicious is detected, click the See Report button, then Save Report and save it to a convenient location. Post the contents of the ActiveScan report
-----------------------------------------
atfCleaner:
ATF Cleaner by Atribune.
http://www.atribune.org/ccount/click.php?id=1
Double-click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program.
Under Main choose: Select All
Click the Empty Selected button.
If you use Firefox browser
Click Firefox at the top and choose: Select All
Click the Empty Selected button.
NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please click No at the prompt.
Double-click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program.
Under Main choose: Select All
Click the Empty Selected button.
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just to make sure: the adyieldmanager warning in ZA only pops up when you are going to operamail? and not randomly at other times?
shelf life
shelf life,
Panda wants IE, I use FF. So I cleaned the pc with ATF Cleaner and scanned it again with Ad-Aware, Spy-bot, Hijack this and AVG (antivirus and anti-spyware). Everything clean, as always.
Yes, ZA only alerts me that my computer was prevented from connecting to the yieldmanager.com when I open operamail.
Maybe those bad people monitor public email systems and then send cookies to everyone connected. That would explain how they manage to mimic names and addresses of some people I actually have contact with.
It is a bit FF fault as well. They did away with the "Accept cookies for the originating site only", in FF 2, but available in 1.5. FF guys are getting slack lately...
If there are more things we can do to find out if there's something on my pc, let me know. And thanks for your help so far.
Panda wants IE, I use FF. So I cleaned the pc with ATF Cleaner and scanned it again with Ad-Aware, Spy-bot, Hijack this and AVG (antivirus and anti-spyware). Everything clean, as always.
Yes, ZA only alerts me that my computer was prevented from connecting to the yieldmanager.com when I open operamail.
Maybe those bad people monitor public email systems and then send cookies to everyone connected. That would explain how they manage to mimic names and addresses of some people I actually have contact with.
It is a bit FF fault as well. They did away with the "Accept cookies for the originating site only", in FF 2, but available in 1.5. FF guys are getting slack lately...
If there are more things we can do to find out if there's something on my pc, let me know. And thanks for your help so far.
hi Diego,
sorry for the delay. no luck with that. your computer according to the scan is clean. maybe a thrid party website is envoking the cookie when at the operamail site. i did read there privacy policy:
"Opera Web Mail contains links to other sites. Opera Software is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites."
is that the free version of ZA you use or one of the other packages?
shelf life
sorry for the delay. no luck with that. your computer according to the scan is clean. maybe a thrid party website is envoking the cookie when at the operamail site. i did read there privacy policy:
"Opera Web Mail contains links to other sites. Opera Software is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites."
is that the free version of ZA you use or one of the other packages?
shelf life
hi Diego,
Your computer is clean. the notice from ZA must be part of the protection or blocking of known web sites or ad servers. the best i figure is the cookie is envoked by a server on the operamail website which raises aflag with ZA for whatever reason.
shelf life
Your computer is clean. the notice from ZA must be part of the protection or blocking of known web sites or ad servers. the best i figure is the cookie is envoked by a server on the operamail website which raises aflag with ZA for whatever reason.
shelf life