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chris635:
Hi
You must have a bunch of tracking cookies or something of that nature reading your surfing habits to give you ad's based on your surfing nature. I hate these, so here are a number of things to try to block them.
http://www.ghostery.com/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
and something extra for IE
http://www.techgeekandmore.com/2013/02/10/removing-vibrant-in-place-ads-in-internet-explorer/
I use firefox specifically so the top two will work great for firefox (I use them both, They work to well sometimes, so you may need to unblock some cookies and widgets to see certain add's in different sites or may be to log in).
I have set firefox to only keep tracking cookies I want. For example I have set firefox to keep cookies for this website and forum.
When I close firefox it will delete cookies I haven't specified.
As you cant tell I hate being tracked or ad's trying to get me to spend money.
It isn't 100%. But it's a good start.
I also use open dns which helps to block some of this crap as well.
Chris
cnnashman:
Thanks Chris, i was just curious about having once clicked on the rogue program Reimage (supposedly there's a legit program called that but of course i found the bad one) that when it now appears on pages that i visit that it must mean i'm still infected by it.
chris635:
You need to delete your cookies then use the tools I suggested. Your not infected by anything bad. You have tracking cookies on your system. Every site use's tracking cookies. With out them you wouldn't be able to log into your favorite sites or even look at video. You need cookies for almost everything anymore. You want to do is get rid of the ones that aggravate you and keep the ones that don't.
CCleaner does a good job of deleting cookies.
Download it and run it. Keep the default settings with the exception of tracking cookies, enable this for deletion. Run a system restore first, and stay away from the registry cleaner unless you know what your doing or are prepared for the possible consequences.
Once you delete the cookies, any user I'D's and passwords you have saved will be deleted (they are cookies to). Then set up firefox to keep the ones you want. This with the tools should take care of it. I hope :wink: LOL!
Chris
cnnashman:
I know about cookies, i have them turned off at all times. The thing that baffles me is that this Reimage program is shown on every page i visit regardless. Before i clicked it on that one time in the past i never have seen the ads for it on any page. The Reimage program is the only ads that i ever see , only very very occasionally do i see any other ads.
Even after two complete reinstalls that ad still always shows itself and cookies are always turned off. I always fill in my login details manually at all sites, never do they fill in themselves.
Shane:
With a fresh install you wouldnt have any old cookies or anything old at all.
Reimage has a huge ad campaign going right now so it is no wonder you are seeing it. But again those are just ads. There is nothing infected or wrong on the system :wink:
Install firefox and use the adblock add on and you wont see ads any more. Even though I make money from ads on my site I use firefox and adblock LOL
Shane
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