Norm, Lobo, EA...

[SannieRose]

Awhile back I asked why PCPitstop attempted to add a key to my registry and place files on my system. Now I know why:

Napster's Hank Barry insisted that, despite the new filtering technology, the file-trading company remains the market leader. He cited a report from PC Pitstop, which found that Napster was installed on 40 percent of the PCs on the market. The next nearest competitor, mIRC, placed a distant second with only 6 percent market penetration.
Sorry, gentlemen but PCPitsop installs Spyware on your machines :(

[Lobo]

I am aware they install Active X to read whats in your registry, here is the list of spyware and Pcpitstop is not on it here (http://www.infoforce.qc.ca/spyware/enknownlistfrm.html)


I think what the letter is saying is it is already on computers when they come to pitstop :)

[Buggyman]

I ran my ad wares program to make sure I'm clean and then went to the PC Pitstop site. ran a connection test and then ran the Ad ware program again...
It turned up a "DoubleClick" spyware program on the scan.
So beware! :)

[SannieRose]

Originally posted by Lobo

I think what the letter is saying is it is already on computers when they come to pitstop :)
The question is: How do they know Napster is already on our computers? Obviously they are compiling data for market research and they are using PCPitsop as a front :(

[Lobo]

I like pitstop and there is a way to keep doubleclick of your computer if the person who knows how to would post it, I saw it before and can't remember where:) :)

[Lobo]

PCpitstop a front, do tell, well they got me then for as long as they like as they are more accurate than alot of others I've seen:) :)

[SannieRose]

Lobo, it isn't Doubleclick I'm worried about. PCPitsop installs a couple of files (probably similar to Webhancer) on your PC. I caught them cuz eSafe alerted me :(

[Buggyman]

Hi Lobo! :)
Dannjr gave it to me to put on the wifey's PC.. I'll go get it.
as for removal use this AdAwares program. It's a free ware and advailable here-->AdAwares Site (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/)
This will remove any known spywares.
I'll be back in a short about the keeping them out files! :D

[SannieRose]

Thanx Bugs. I think everyone here is familiar with Ad Aware. My concern is we are directing unsuspecting users to a site that apparently loads Spyware on their PC's :(

[Buggyman]

Compliments Of Dannjr over at Broadbandnuts. :)
You need to run adaware to remove them out of your registery.
Then you go to Tools on your Tool bar,
then to Internet Options,
Then click on the Security Tab,
Then click on the Restrictive Sites Icon.
Click on the "sites"
Then add these in
*.doubleclick.net
*.flycast.com
*.valueclick.com

Add them in one by one and exactly as they are above.
save all that and it will work. It has on my wife's PC

[SannieRose]

Thanx Bugs :D

[Lobo]

Yea thanks bugs, all ad-aware picked up was doubleclick but after doing what you said above, I'm free, don't have to jump,
thanks for telling us SannieRose, they just changed there site around alittle but now I'm safe again:) :)

[EvilAjax]

Thanks for the info everyone. :)

[Buggyman]

I just updated my adaware to the new 5.5 and guess what?
It turned up 8 more spywares the older version didn't pick up. :eek:
And they were doubleclick and flycast and serveral other.
I guess the spywares are changing as well. :(
:D

[Lobo]

Yea I got the 5.5 and at pitstop it was just doubleclick until I did what you said above, now I'm free, was that da da's voice I heard, lol:) :)

[SannieRose]

Originally posted by Lobo
Yea I got the 5.5 and at pitstop it was just doubleclick until I did what you said above, now I'm free, was that da da's voice I heard, lol:) :)
Lobo, does this mean u will not be pointing anyone else to PCPitsop? :D

[Lobo]

Alot of us test at www.pcpitstop.com and since they changed their site around alittle they now add alittle spyware thing, not to worry, following the below directions and you are safe
Compliments Of Dannjr over at Broadbandnuts.
You need to run adaware to remove them out of your registery.
Then you go to Tools on your Tool bar,
then to Internet Options,
Then click on the Security Tab,
Then click on the Restrictive Sites Icon.
Click on the "sites"
Then add these in
*.doubleclick.net
*.flycast.com
*.valueclick.com

Add them in one by one and exactly as they are above.
You may get ad aware spyware removal here: http://www.voiceofthepublic.com/Lavasoft/index.htm


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:) :)

[Buggyman]

Originally posted by Lobo
was that da da's voice I heard, lol:) :)
what you heard was them Dodge boys winning the race tonight!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[BigAmp]

K I've just but on ad-aware so I'm new to it is there any files I want to leave? it found five of them when I ran it.
they are:
c:\windows\tsad.dll (timesink)type F and V
c:\windows\profiles\****\cookies\hp authorized customer@doubleclick[2].txt (doubleclick) type F
the tsad.dll came up three times (2 as type F and 1 as type V) and the other file came up two time both as type F
so in short what should I do with these file? keep'em or dump'em

[Lobo]

Fat chance of that, watch out for that #8 car:) , I'll be watching so da da can come over here until the lawyer's serve him the papers, seems like he has kids everywhere,lol:) :)

[Lobo]

BigAmp, Nuke them
:)

[SannieRose]

Originally posted by Lobo
Alot of us test at www.pcpitstop.com and since they changed their site around alittle they now add alittle spyware thing...
a little spyware thing??? For shame, Lobo. For shame :(

[BigAmp]

nuked'em and thanx for the file tweak to block them.

[Lobo]

Well you have to way the thing out, I used to go to that dsl place until they called us @home addicts, alot of people do not have the time to test using a download or whatever and prefer online testing, pcpitstop is very accurate in there reporting so if it takes a one time thing to be able to use their stuff rather than the other,
OK for shame, I'm shamefull, and ready to jump, but I have been saved by Dannjr and Buggyman so I can watch the race tonight,lol :)

[Buggyman]

Those I gave you are just a few to block.. there are more out there.
But if you know the site address like i gave you above you can add them as well... just becareful :)
The best thing to do is run the adaware ever so often to nuke em! :)
Later Guys! :D

[Lobo]

SannieRose, thanks again for telling us, no one will be sent there without (Or should I say) I will send no one there without telling them what to do first, all will be cool
:)

[BigAmp]

so you show how to block out the site on IE what about Netscape and Opera would I need to do the same in them some where?

[SannieRose]

Originally posted by Lobo
SannieRose, thanks again for telling us, no one will be sent there without (Or should I say) I will send no one there without telling them what to do first, all will be cool
:)
Thanx Lobo :D Enjoy the race!

[blebs]

Originally posted by Buggyman
Compliments Of Dannjr over at Broadbandnuts. :)
You need to run adaware to remove them out of your registery.
Then you go to Tools on your Tool bar,
then to Internet Options,
Then click on the Security Tab,
Then click on the Restrictive Sites Icon.
Click on the "sites"
Then add these in
*.doubleclick.net
*.flycast.com
*.valueclick.com

Add them in one by one and exactly as they are above.
save all that and it will work. It has on my wife's PC


And any others that you don't want!!!!!!:D

[kgsuth]

Thanks.

I just learned how badly infected, infested and infiltrated I was with these dirty nasty little bugs. So I squished the lot of them, thanks to you all. What a great bunch here at Speedguide. I need to spend more time listening to you all.

Now if only if only I could get rid of that annoying ad at the top of this page that blinks its little yellow neon sign at me and tells me "Your free entry arrived" How I would love to squish her.
She is so distracting!!!!!! (Has to be a woman):rolleyes:

[Buggyman]

You're right and I for one owe you an apology :)

[emixnem]

nevermind

[BigAmp]

K so i just saw what I should notdo that. just a little after the fact, but it worked out fine.
I first went into regedit to see if I had to do anything else but no! it was all done but the program