Problems with a spy cookie and activeX

[RatDog8102]

I recently tried Spybot search and destroy to see if it would catch spy cookies that Adaware did not. It did find a couple, one of which was from atdmt.com. So I had it delete these cookies and went about my normal browsing for an hour or so. Out of curiosity I decided to run spybot again. Low and behold the atdmt.com cookie showed up again. I searched around and found that the only way to keep this spy cookie from appering was to add atdmt.com to the restricted sites in the security tab of explorer's options settings. Now, when I do this, I get the following error message dialog on some AT forum pages: "Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this page. As a result, the page may not display correctly." Also on the pages with this error there is an empty advertising box that has properties where the URL is pointing to here: http://view.atdmt.com/CIB/iview/nndtcati00500003cib/direct/01?click=

If I take atdmt.com out of the restricted sites, then all pages load fine and there is a flash ad for ati where the empty box was before. Am I being too cautious about spy cookies. Or is there another way to avoid this cookie getting set? Or is it time to try Opera or Mozilla?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Originally posted by: RatDog8102
I recently tried Spybot search and destroy to see if it would catch spy cookies that Adaware did not. It did find a couple, one of which was from atdmt.com. So I had it delete these cookies and went about my normal browsing for an hour or so. Out of curiosity I decided to run spybot again. Low and behold the atdmt.com cookie showed up again. I searched around and found that the only way to keep this spy cookie from appering was to add atdmt.com to the restricted sites in the security tab of explorer's options settings. Now, when I do this, I get the following error message dialog on some AT forum pages: "Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this page. As a result, the page may not display correctly." Also on the pages with this error there is an empty advertising box that has properties where the URL is pointing to here: http://view.atdmt.com/CIB/iview/nndtcati00500003cib/direct/01?click=

If I take atdmt.com out of the restricted sites, then all pages load fine and there is a flash ad for ati where the empty box was before. Am I being too cautious about spy cookies. Or is there another way to avoid this cookie getting set? Or is it time to try Opera or Mozilla?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Pretty much the only way to get rid of the ads is to subscribe, which may/may not be an option for you. I'm not sure about you but I have a large hosts file which blocks most if not all ad banners/pages. (It was included with KazaaLite 2.x) Might want to look into that and see if that solves your problem

 

[RatDog8102]

Thanks for the tip. I had tried using the 302kb host file that the spybot program has, but it did not prevent the cookie from being set. So I went into the host file and manually added the following line:

127.0.0.1 view.atdmt.com

This seems to keep the cookie from appearing and I do not get the ActiveX controls error any more.

Thanks