Invaders xxxx.2o7 and others

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William B. Lurie

I have AdwareAlert and SpyBot running, and most of the
time that I look to see what they have caught as having
invaded my system, there are a number identified as shown
above. I destroy them, quarantine them, and, sure enough,
in a day or so, they're back again. Is there any way I
can set FF and/or TB to block them the same way as the
Mozilla Message Filters block invaders? Thank you.
 
So I guess your saying that they are coming from websites that YOU go to and
the 2 programs that you have are NOT doing their job.............
Maybe its time to up the ante and use a program that works?? or watch your
Internet button clicking

I use Adaware......Spybot Search and
Destroy......CounterSpy.........ZoneAlarm Firewall......BitDefender
Antivirus...SpywareBlaster.....and I go to some strange places on the net
using common sense and a healthy fear of Virus/Trojans have never(knock on
wood) been seriously infected.

What do you do different??
peter
 
I have AdwareAlert and SpyBot running, and most of the
time that I look to see what they have caught as having
invaded my system, there are a number identified as shown
above. I destroy them, quarantine them, and, sure enough,
in a day or so, they're back again. Is there any way I
can set FF and/or TB to block them the same way as the
Mozilla Message Filters block invaders? Thank you.
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Anything with the '2o7.com' domain (is that what you mean by 'xxxx.2o7'?) is
likely just a tracking cookie. Firefox has a native cookie blocker, and you
just have to learn how to correlate the tracking cookie domains which your
AdAware and Spybot programs are finding with domains to block in the browser
cookie manager.

Lots of good Firefox support here:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38

As for your specific question: Tools.Options.Privacy. Click on the
"Exceptions..." button. Type the offending domain name (just the TLD, i.e.,
'2o7.net', or '7search.net') where it asks for the "Address of web site:",
and then click on the "Block" button.
 
William B. Lurie,
After you run Ad-Aware, and before you delete/quarantine the sites. You can
add these sites to your hosts file in a way that they can't leave a new
cookie to gather information about you or your PC.

In OE> TOOLS> Internet Options> Privacy tab> Sites button> type in the site
name such as "2o7.com" (w/o quotes)> Select the BLOCK button> Apply/OK.
Now in your removal list in Ad-Aware, you may see variation of this address,
in most instances this single entry should be enough to block these sites
that use this service or application from leaving a cookie on your PC, for
future tracking. If not then you may need to add a new similar entry, for
this tracking is to be stopped.

I personally do the following while using Ad-Aware. In the blocked list
mentioned above. I place a second entry using dot (.)Net to the name of the
site. So for me. and have xxx.2o7.com & yyyy.double-click.com listed to be
blocked as:
2o7.com
207.net
double-click.com
double-click.net

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So I guess your saying that they are coming from websites that YOU go to and
the 2 programs that you have are NOT doing their job.............
Maybe its time to up the ante and use a program that works?? or watch your
Internet button clicking

I use Adaware......Spybot Search and
Destroy......CounterSpy.........ZoneAlarm Firewall......BitDefender
Antivirus...SpywareBlaster.....and I go to some strange places on the net
using common sense and a healthy fear of Virus/Trojans have never(knock on
wood) been seriously infected.

What do you do different??
peter
 
Thanks for the several useful responses. BTW, the OE reference
is not of any help because I never, ever, have a reason to
use OE. I don't have several of the blockers mentioned, and
I'll certainly look into them.
 
William,
Sorry the "OE" should have been "IE", typo.

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Thanks for the several useful responses. BTW, the OE reference
is not of any help because I never, ever, have a reason to
use OE. I don't have several of the blockers mentioned, and
I'll certainly look into them.
 
Rich/rerat said:
William,
Sorry the "OE" should have been "IE", typo.
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No prob, Rich. Actually, altho' IE is on my Desktop
and installed, I use it on those once-a-year occasions
when some URL demands IE instead of Mozilla FF.
BTW, I downloaded and installed ZoneAlarm Freebie,
and already fewer incidences of unwanted Adware have
showed up. Time will tell whether it does block all
of the .2o7 and ATDT garbage that AdAwareAlert kept
finding.
 
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