SKA claims its first victim

**DiscoStu** · 4 April 2008, 14:59

Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...gle.technology

Surely AtW was the first long-suffering victim of it?

**bogeyman** · 4 April 2008, 15:00

They acquired DoubleClick!

So much for Don't be Evil

I recommend: 127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net

**cojak** · 4 April 2008, 15:08

I recommend Firefox with the NoScript add-on....

**bogeyman** · 4 April 2008, 15:11

Originally posted by cojak View Post

I recommend Firefox with the NoScript add-on....

Noscript helps but you'll still end up with DoubleClick cookies.

**cojak** · 4 April 2008, 15:19

Ah - right, will use spybot more regularly, then...

**bogeyman** · 4 April 2008, 15:27

Originally posted by cojak View Post

Ah - right, will use spybot more regularly, then...

Never found a use for SpyBot.

Just edit your 'hosts' file and add the line:

127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net

That will cause any DNS requests from your browser to resolve the 'ad.doubleclick.net' URL to 'localhost'.

There are tons of other parasites that can be dealt with in this way.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file

**gingerjedi** · 4 April 2008, 16:16

Originally posted by bogeyman View Post

Never found a use for SpyBot.

Just edit your 'hosts' file and add the line:

127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net

That will cause any DNS requests from your browser to resolve the 'ad.doubleclick.net' URL to 'localhost'.

There are tons of other parasites that can be dealt with in this way.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file

Just had a look at mine and there are probably 500-1000 127.0.0.1 entries which I didn't add, maybe thats what spybot does with them?

**bogeyman** · 4 April 2008, 16:29

Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post

Just had a look at mine and there are probably 500-1000 127.0.0.1 entries which I didn't add, maybe thats what spybot does with them?

Yes but it's not a good idea to add everything to hosts. Just bogs things down.

SKA claims its first victim