Re: avenue a

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"Smyles" <Smyles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4191658B-8B4E-4B1E-89E4-FF8DF5125747@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am using the immunize feature of spybot and it blocks this. It seems that
most msn pages use avenue a and my IE tends to freeze when spybot blocks it.
It seems that Avenue A is also used by other sites as I had the same problem
when I tried to download a shredder off a link in one of these posts. Does
anyone know if this is or is not spyware and should I allow it to load or
keep blocking it. If I should allow it I am not sure hoe to put it on the
list of accepted programs in spybot. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


The Immunize option, if enabled, also alerts on "bad" cookie domains. I don't use their Immunize feature because I could care less about bad cookies. Whitelist the domains for whose cookies you want to keep and then forcibly purge all other cookies whether per-session or permanent cookies (i.e., force all non-whitelisted domains to have their cookies deleted). There are plenty of cookie managers available. IE has some cookie management but won't delete non-whitelisted cookies (i.e., it won't delete those not listed in its Allow list when IE exits). Avenue-A is just a cookie. Learn to manage your cookies.

I usually don't use features that the author has deliberately left vague regarding what they do. "While the Permanent Immunity blocks installers by their ActiveX ID, this one blocks anything that should come through by different aspects." Yeah, different "aspects". The author wants to make his product sound like it does magic. Also, the fact that Spybot (and SpywareBlaster) say they block AX controls by their class ID is completely misleading. They don't block them at all. They add or update a class ID registry key to add a kill bit which prevents that AX control from executing, not from getting onto your host.

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