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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 6:18 pm
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spyware, tracking cookies, trojans

All of a sudden your site is trying to load this junk onto my computer. The fact that my firewall is blocking these is making your site unusable to me. What are you or your advertisers doing?
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 7:44 pm
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Sounds to me like your spyware blocker is set so "stun"... All I get off FT are cookies and there is nothing harmful about cookies... I've certainly not seen spyware or trojans. Perhaps it's time to use a less strict ad blocker?
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 8:57 pm
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Avenue A, Inc is the main one and my blocking program says it is a known threat.
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 10:07 pm
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Avenue A is just an ad-tracking cookie, all these spyware programs claiming it's a "threat" are exaggerating.
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Old Oct 24, 2003 | 10:10 am
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Exactly. We've had this complaint in the past and checked with our ad company.
 
Old Oct 24, 2003 | 1:45 pm
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They offer an opt out:
http://www.atlasdmt.com/privacy/opting.asp


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Old Oct 26, 2003 | 7:31 pm
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Thanks, I used the opt out and it solved
my problems.
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