Advert Blocking/Unblocking

[george]

Hi All
I recently started experiencing the following problem: I cannot see the
banners on my web site (or other sites). I get error message 'The web page
you are trying to view cannot be displayed...' - I have Norton Security and
it had identified TopSearch.dll which I deleted as it's an adware
component - not sure if this is related to the problem, but I do want to see
my banners and some others too. I have turned ad blocking off in my Norton
settings, looked through my I.E 6 settings (with all updates) to no avail.
My banners are in the following format and used to work properly:
<script language="javascript">
var uri = 'http://theadvertlink?' + new String (Math.random()).substring (2,
11);
document.write('<iframe src="'+uri +'" width="468" height="60"
frameborder="0" border="0" marginwidth="0"

marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>');
</script>
Any ideas?
George

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

Hi All
I recently started experiencing the following problem: I cannot see
the banners on my web site (or other sites). I get error message 'The
web page you are trying to view cannot be displayed...' - I have
Norton Security and it had identified TopSearch.dll which I deleted
as it's an adware component - not sure if this is related to the problem,
but I do want
to see my banners and some others too. I have turned ad blocking off
in my Norton settings, looked through my I.E 6 settings (with all
updates) to no avail. My banners are in the following format and used
to work properly: <script language="javascript">
var uri = 'http://theadvertlink?' + new String
(Math.random()).substring (2, 11);
document.write('<iframe src="'+uri +'" width="468" height="60"
frameborder="0" border="0" marginwidth="0"

marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>');
</script>
Any ideas?
George

Is this a Win2K problem or a WinXP problem? You posted to both.

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[george]

Is this a Win2K problem or a WinXP problem? You posted to both.

Thanks for your response, Frank - sorry, but I didn't think that the problem
was specifically related to Windows version. In fact, the following sorted
out my problem:
'HOSTS file may be
blocking them.
To check the HOSTS file in Windows XP...
Make sure that Windows is showing hidden files (Folder options> View) and is
not hiding file extensions for known file types then check for a HOSTS file
at [C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc] Open the HOSTS file with notepad. If
there are entries you wish to disable, you can put the pound sign (#) in
front an entry to disable it. Then File> Save. Or you can rename the HOSTS
file to HOSTS.OLD to disable it.
In Win 9x, the file will be at [C:\Windows]
In Win 2K, the file will be at [C:\WINNT\System32\Drivers\etc]' - hope
people find this useful, it was a post I found by 'Don
[MS MVP- IE]
"JMU" <JMU[at]discussions.microsoft.com>'