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August 22nd, 2005 02:00
Doubleclick -- How to Remove
Hi. I have Dimension 3000 with WinXP SP2. Most times when I click on a link in the IE browser or try to open a new webpage, I end up having to double click. I notice that the IE first goes to
www.ad.doubleclick.net (slash something which I am not able to catch as it goes too fast). I am assuming this is some kind of adware/spyware. I use Spybot S&D, Spy Sweeper, and Norton Internet Security 2005 Spyware Edition, and even running these I have not been able to get rid of this double clicking menace. I have disabled Windows Firewall as recommended by Norton while installing their new Spyware Edition. I am assuming it is okay to do so.
Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Vin35
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ky331
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August 22nd, 2005 12:00
DoubleClick is the name of an advertising company, that is notorious for placing its "cookie" on your PC. It has NOTHING to do with whether you have to single-click or double-click on a link in your Internet Explorer browser.
Here are your options in terms of the DoubleClick web site:
1) many people just ignore it, since this cookie tends to come back all the time.
2) you can try to "block" the cookies, as follows: in Internet Explorer, click on TOOLS, then INTERNET OPTIONS, select the PRIVACY tab, and then I believe (in XP2) the next button is labeled SITES. then, you can type-in the address of the site whose cookies you want to block (such as www.doubleclick.com and/or www.doubleclick.net ), hit BLOCK, and then OK. This SHOULD permanently block DoubleClick from placing any more cookies on your PC. However, if there are any websites, working along with DoubleClick, that "require" the doubleclick cookie to be present, then you won't be able to fully access such a site... but I am not aware that any such doubleclick "affiliates" actually do this.
3) if you actually go to the site www.doubleclick.com , click on PRIVACY, you'll see an option for AD-COOKIE OPT-OUT . What this will do, is place one "final" (allegedly "anonymous") cookie, from DoubleClick, onto your system... in the future, when DoubleClick finds this, it will not place any more cookies on your system. However, if you take this approach, you have to be careful NOT to remove this special OPT-OUT cookie (with Ad-aware, SpyBot, &etc), because as soon as it's removed, DoubleClick will then place more/new cookies onto your PC.
Hopefully, you'll find one of these "solutions" satisfactory.
Vin35
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August 22nd, 2005 15:00