Hackers Use Banner Ads to Hijack Your PC

[JohnnyPissoff]

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/n...11/doubleclick

If you guys want to disable doubleclick, AdTariff or any other 3rd party spy/malware cookies that end up on the list after a Spy Bot A&D or Ad Aware scan, to ever appear again:

- On IE, go to view/privacy report/settings
- On the "Web Sites" box, click Edit
- Add the address in the block column
- After adding as many as you want click OK

To obtain the actual address; google the spy bots name. Add .com .net etc after the spy bots name in Google field to find the site. (for example: AdTariff.com) then add the full URL that you reach via Google.

If you go slap happy and block any important cookies go back and reinstate the site.

For FireFox: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/secu...priv_help.html
it's a bit more complicated or at least you have many more choices as well as some really great cookie editor plug-ins as well as HTTP header decoding tools if you really want to See the cookies sent by remote sites

CRUSH THE BLACK HATS!

[Lothrian]

To add:

I ended up putting an adblocker (one of the firefox recommended addons) on my browser finally. Websites now load up at least 3 times faster.
Its worth while doing if not nothing else but that.

[[R-DEV]Rhino]

wont a firewall stop this?

[Deadfast]

Firefox + Adblock Plus + NoScript = no annoying ads and/or malicious scripts

[JohnnyPissoff]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]Rhino

wont a firewall stop this?

No Rhino, because you've already opened that port and authorized that action.

Deadfast, Lothrian, have you guys given this a try:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts
It really speeds FireFox up tremendously.