New Malware????

[billyscotth]

Dear Spybot,

I have been having a lot of problems recently and I'm woundering if my Spybot has been coorupted in some way. Although I may have visited a bad site or two in the past, I have avoided any such for quite some time but I find that I have to perform multiple search and destroy Spybot checks on any given day if not per hour because my surfing is slowed so much. Many times my Spybot will catch the problem: i.e. TagASaurus, ABetterInternet, Omniture, etc which keep on popping up. But on top of that, now I am getting a message saying "Spybot -S&D reports that you want to download "DoubleClick" This is a known threat. Do you want to block this download". And of course I will respond "Yes" because I already knew D.C. is bad stuff but I dont know why Spybot is suggesting that I want to download it. Besides, why do I have to continue to perform Search and Destroy missions every hour or so? What can I do to permanently fix the reacurring trackers/ malware? Why isn't SpyBot able to get rid of them permanently?

 

[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 "Immunize" page. Checking the checkbox will enable the BrowserHelper, a drop down menu 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 you seem to be using a dated version of Spybot-S&D.
Please download our current version Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.4. That should fix it.
You will find links to several download locations for this new version on our web site:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html
Please search for new updates after installing Spybot-S&D 1.4.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot