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Guest
i get this message when i click on certain banners or links i would like to visit. how do i get rid of this message and be able to access the sites? Please advise. Thanks.
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*Vanguard*
roydio said:i get this message when i click on certain banners or links i would
like to visit. how do i get rid of this message and be able to access
the sites? Please advise. Thanks.
The host (not site?) is in WHOSE blacklist? Do you run software that
restricts access to some sites, like censorware (CyberPatrol, NetNanny,
etc.)? Do you run a personal software firewall on your computer or use
a router that has a firewall which are blocking the sites (by their FQDN
or by using a URL filter)? The message you mentioned in the Subject
line doesn't sound familiar of IE's Content Advisor (but then I don't
bother using it).
You don't give an example of the target site that a banner tries to
connect (you don't see the site shown in the status bar or by viewing
the source)? You don't give a clue as to what anti-spyware, firewall,
censorware, or other blocking products you might have installed.
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Guest
sorry, i am quite new with this kind of tech stuff.
i get an email in outlook, for example, from (e-mail address removed), i click on Royal Caribbean banner offering a 7 night cruise, when i click on the RC banner, it goes to IE6 and in the text i get the above message (this is the link, http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;81175...lcaribbean.com/svs/landingpage.asp?sweep=BAN4).
i do have Spybot, Ad-aware 6.0, Advanced System Optimizer, F-Prot Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus 2002, and Linksys Wireless Cable/DSL router with 4 Port Switch.
Thanks for the assistance.
RVB
i get an email in outlook, for example, from (e-mail address removed), i click on Royal Caribbean banner offering a 7 night cruise, when i click on the RC banner, it goes to IE6 and in the text i get the above message (this is the link, http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;81175...lcaribbean.com/svs/landingpage.asp?sweep=BAN4).
i do have Spybot, Ad-aware 6.0, Advanced System Optimizer, F-Prot Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus 2002, and Linksys Wireless Cable/DSL router with 4 Port Switch.
Thanks for the assistance.
RVB
V
*Vanguard*
roydio said:sorry, i am quite new with this kind of tech stuff.
i get an email in outlook, for example, from
(e-mail address removed), i click on Royal Caribbean banner offering
a 7 night cruise, when i click on the RC banner, it goes to IE6 and
in the text i get the above message (this is the link,
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;81175...lcaribbean.com/svs/landingpage.asp?sweep=BAN4).
i do have Spybot, Ad-aware 6.0, Advanced System Optimizer, F-Prot
Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus 2002, and Linksys Wireless Cable/DSL
router with 4 Port Switch.
Thanks for the assistance.
RVB
The anti-virus products don't have site blocking, so it's not them
presenting the "host is in the blacklist" message (which apparently is a
substitute for some content within the web page rather than a separate
popup notifying you of the block). Spybot doesn't block sites, either.
You can use it (or edit directly) to modify the 'hosts' file so an IP
name gets equated to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) but that will result in IE
looking at your own host for the web page but you don't have a web
server running or you don't have that page so you'll see IE error with
"page not found" or "no server", not with some "host is in the
blacklist" message ... unless you are running a web server to handle
those blocked sites listed in the hosts file. There is some mini-web
server available whose only job is to present a web page saying that an
IP name got blocked (don't recall the name of this tool). However, I
don't know that it works by modifying the HTTP datastream to substitute
the content of a web page with its own to insert an info message about
the block within the web page that you see rendered.
You could check if Content Advisor is enabled in IE. It just doesn't
sound like what Content Advisor will do. As I recall during a very
short test of it, the user is informed the site is not allowed or a
popup appears to ask for a password to allow access (this is
configurable).
You didn't mention a firewall. If you have site or URL blocking enabled
within your firewall, it is possible that it substitutes the blocked
content in the web page with this info content (rather than making you
review your firewall's logfiles to see the block occurred). For
example, in Norton Internet Security, if I block on "doubleclick.com"
and a link to an image goes to somewhere on that domain, NIS will
substitute the image with its own info image noting that access was
denied. If I instead used the firewall rules within my router to block
by URL or site, that linked image to the blocked domain will get
replaced by an info message that the router substituted into the web
page. In either case, a firewall replaced some of the content of the
visited web page to note that some of its content got blocked. You
never mentioned a personal software firewall running on your computer or
using the one in the router.
Note that the link you show is redirect through Doubleclick. You first
go to their site to then get redirected to the targeted site. This lets
them track your web navigation. Cheaptickets.com uses Doubleclick a lot
but since I block all access to Doubleclick's domains then that site
becomes effectively useless.