Avenue A,, Inc

[SJohnson]

I have Windows XP Professional with the SP2 and use
Internet Explorer 6.0 as my browser. Here's my problem:
Everytime I open Internet Explorer, or attempt to navigate
within the IE browser, my Spybot software alerts me
that "Avenue A, Inc." is trying to download.

What is "Avenue A, Inc" and is it a necessary part of IE?
Is it harmful? I always tell Spybot to block the product
from downloading, but is that a bad or good idea?

 

[Vanguardx]

I have Windows XP Professional with the SP2 and use
Internet Explorer 6.0 as my browser. Here's my problem:
Everytime I open Internet Explorer, or attempt to navigate
within the IE browser, my Spybot software alerts me
that "Avenue A, Inc." is trying to download.

What is "Avenue A, Inc" and is it a necessary part of IE?
Is it harmful? I always tell Spybot to block the product
from downloading, but is that a bad or good idea?

The pages you visit have 3rd party content and AvenueA is trying to save
a cookie to your host. To Spybot, a "bad download" is anything from any
site it is blacklist. However, that also includes cookies. I use
SpywareBlaster but let it only add killbits for ActiveX components and
do NOT let it block cookies from "bad" sites. I have much better cookie
management with PopUpCop and its cookie domain whitelisting function:
cookies from whitelisted domains are kept (if they are permanent
cookies) but all other cookies (permanent or per-session) are forced to
be per-session cookies because they get deleted when the last instance
of the browser closes. That way, any site that demands the use of its
cookies will still function but their cookie gets deleted when IE closes
regardless of what they wanted.

While SpywareBlaster differentiates between bad ActiveX download and
cookies from bad domains, Spybot makes no such distinction, as is also
evidenced by the fact that you get no choices in what *categories* of
bad [addresses for] downloads to prompt or block when using Spybot's
Immunize.

 

[ben]

got spybot version 1.3? 1.2 expired many months ago.

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I have Windows XP Professional with the SP2 and use
Internet Explorer 6.0 as my browser. Here's my problem:
Everytime I open Internet Explorer, or attempt to navigate
within the IE browser, my Spybot software alerts me
that "Avenue A, Inc." is trying to download.

What is "Avenue A, Inc" and is it a necessary part of IE?
Is it harmful? I always tell Spybot to block the product
from downloading, but is that a bad or good idea?

The pages you visit have 3rd party content and AvenueA is trying to save
a cookie to your host. To Spybot, a "bad download" is anything from any
site it is blacklist. However, that also includes cookies. I use
SpywareBlaster but let it only add killbits for ActiveX components and
do NOT let it block cookies from "bad" sites. I have much better cookie
management with PopUpCop and its cookie domain whitelisting function:
cookies from whitelisted domains are kept (if they are permanent
cookies) but all other cookies (permanent or per-session) are forced to
be per-session cookies because they get deleted when the last instance
of the browser closes. That way, any site that demands the use of its
cookies will still function but their cookie gets deleted when IE closes
regardless of what they wanted.

While SpywareBlaster differentiates between bad ActiveX download and
cookies from bad domains, Spybot makes no such distinction, as is also
evidenced by the fact that you get no choices in what *categories* of
bad [addresses for] downloads to prompt or block when using Spybot's
Immunize.

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[Vanguardx]

got spybot version 1.3? 1.2 expired many months ago.

I am using Spybot 1.3. Where do YOU see an option in the Immunize
settings where you can actually select which *categories* of "bad
addresses" from which to prevent downloads? I only see one checkable
option to enable the bad address scanner so any address associated with
any item in their entire blacklist will get blocked or prompted. I do
NOT want Spybot to do anything regarding cookies (and cookies only).
When you use Spybot to Immunize, it includes the Block Always on those
items in the cookie category. I don't even bother having SpywareBlaster
block cookies. I have a better solution so I don't want Spybot doing
anything regarding cookies.

There might be a way where you deselect all cookies listed in the Cookie
portion of the Ignore settings. But that means on every update of
Spybot that I would have to remember to unselect all the new cookie
domains that got added in the new update. I'd rather not bother with
all this manual updating. You don't get any choices in the Immunize
screen regarding what categories of items to include in the
immunization.

 

[Guest]

i have the same problem as SJohnson, plus the same happen when i move from
the msn.com page to some other page with the "doubleclick" program alert.
my question is: how can i eliminate the command the want to download the 2
programs? also, are thjose 2 program a serious annoyance?

I have Windows XP Professional with the SP2 and use
Internet Explorer 6.0 as my browser. Here's my problem:
Everytime I open Internet Explorer, or attempt to navigate
within the IE browser, my Spybot software alerts me
that "Avenue A, Inc." is trying to download.

What is "Avenue A, Inc" and is it a necessary part of IE?
Is it harmful? I always tell Spybot to block the product
from downloading, but is that a bad or good idea?

The pages you visit have 3rd party content and AvenueA is trying to save
a cookie to your host. To Spybot, a "bad download" is anything from any
site it is blacklist. However, that also includes cookies. I use
SpywareBlaster but let it only add killbits for ActiveX components and
do NOT let it block cookies from "bad" sites. I have much better cookie
management with PopUpCop and its cookie domain whitelisting function:
cookies from whitelisted domains are kept (if they are permanent
cookies) but all other cookies (permanent or per-session) are forced to
be per-session cookies because they get deleted when the last instance
of the browser closes. That way, any site that demands the use of its
cookies will still function but their cookie gets deleted when IE closes
regardless of what they wanted.

While SpywareBlaster differentiates between bad ActiveX download and
cookies from bad domains, Spybot makes no such distinction, as is also
evidenced by the fact that you get no choices in what *categories* of
bad [addresses for] downloads to prompt or block when using Spybot's
Immunize.

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[Guest]

i found the answer:

go to: internet options > programs > manage add-on > on the list of add-on
search for a numerical vaule, publisher "safer networking limited", type:
"browser helper object", file: "SDhelper.dll"
click on "disable" and the problem is gone .... at least on my computer.

hope it helped you

 

[Guest]

I did a google search on SDHELPER.dll and it is part of Spybot- so thats why
the message stopped occuring- you turned off the spykiller. We still need
to find out what is enableing this spyware- for me my home site is MSN.com
and I have the same problem.

Len