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Stuart Grant

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Nov 7, 2009, 9:26:59 AM11/7/09
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On two different websites in the last few days I have experienced the
same problem.

I click on a link to get further details of an item. The correct web
page downloads but after it is about 90% complete it hangs with the
"loading" message still showing. In several cases the message the Status
Bar showed "Waiting for googleads.g.doubleclick.net" but I think there
were other similar "Waiting for .." messages.

I asked one of the websites and they said that no one else had reported
any problems.

Have I got a virus ? I have AVG virus checker and Outpost firewall.

Stuart

KristleBawl

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Nov 7, 2009, 9:39:48 AM11/7/09
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Stuart Grant expressed an opinion:

You have a privacy setting blocking ads, like the AdBlock Firefox
extension, for example.

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KristleBawl

Stuart Grant

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Nov 10, 2009, 3:51:29 AM11/10/09
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I had the Firefox Add-in Adblock Plus installed. I have uninstalled it
but still have the problem. It is not confined to googleads but maybe
pop-ups.

Stuart

Stuart Grant

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Nov 10, 2009, 4:35:59 AM11/10/09
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I found the answer - the firewall Agnitum Outpost Pro.

It had a PlugIn - "Ads" which must have been installed in a recent
update. I never deliberatly installed it. I find looking at the Outpost
log that it had been doing all the blocking. The most common cause
"IMAGE". I have removed the plug in and the problem is cured.

Stuart

David McRitchie

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Nov 10, 2009, 8:18:55 AM11/10/09
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"Stuart Grant" ...

> I found the answer - the firewall Agnitum Outpost Pro.
>
> It had a PlugIn - "Ads" which must have been installed in a recent
> update. I never deliberatly installed it. I find looking at the Outpost
> log that it had been doing all the blocking. The most common cause
> "IMAGE". I have removed the plug in and the problem is cured.

It's Google AdSense ads and the urls with googleads.g.doubleclick.net
you mentioned are specifically blocked with a good hosts file see and install
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

As for never completing a download, I can't test that as you did
not supply the urls that you were experiencing a problem with,
but being ads you get one thing that brings your system to it's
knees one day and the next day you get a different ad. And most
people won't get served the same ad as you get anyway.

I think you can protect your own web pages from Google AdSense
vandalism with the same mechanism that Microsoft provided to
avoid Smart Tag ( IntelliText) ads that they developed and had to drop.

<!-- prevent IE6 highjacking/replacing links/keywords with Microsoft adverts -->
!-- scumware/theftware: http://www.itpulse.com.au/Newsletters/Newsletter02.htm,
http://gnwda.org/smart-tags.htm -->
<META NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">

If you want the read the first article above articles find it on the web archives
http://web.archive.org/web/20050616080641/http://www.itpulse.com.au/Newsletters/Newsletter02.htm

BTW, Google bought doubleclick in 2007, and doubleclick
continues to operate basically in the same manner as always serving
sponsored ads often with links to malware.

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