Thread: blocking ad ware

Anyone hear of alltagcloud.info?

It is causing a problem that seems to show up on certain forums.

After moving to a new page, you have to hit the "back" button more than once to return
to a previous page. Looking at the list of the page "path", you see:

http://www.altagcloud.info/icons/index

and sometimes also

http://.googleads.g.doubleclick.net/page

in the list.

They don't show up as web pages when moving through them. But you have to keep
hitting the "back" button to get past them. Placing the addresses in the site blocker
doesn't help.

No problem here. Do you have Ad Block Plus installed? If not you should get it and see if that doesn't fix things.

I am building a new computer soon, so I'll have some more up to date stuff.
Even with IE 6.0, I can eliminate the problem by using a high security setting.
But you lose some functionality at some sites.

I am asking more for many others that are seeing the same problem with IE 7 and 8,
and no one seems to know how to get rid of the extra adresses in the page path.
Higher security settings work but again, cause loss of some functions.

I'll try some things like Ad Block Plus. But it's strange though, because the forums
that are affected can't find anything that could be loading this stuff in.

It's something that just started recently too, I think.

Yeah, it happens in higher versions of IE too.
You can mitigate it to a large degree by going to Tools->Internet Options->Security->Restricted Sites zone->Sites
and adding
http://*.doubleclick.net
https://*.doubleclick.net
to the list

Doesn't block ads, but the back button works where it previously didn't on the one page I tested it on (YOUNG MC lyrics: 33 song lyrics)

Thanks. It didn't help on my computer, but it obviously can help.

I will pass the information along in case it can help the others.

It's strange. Most are not having the problem, but a few are (like me).

Does it matter how the sites are specified in the site blocker? Do all versions of
IE recognize wild cards, '*' ?

The only other thing I can think of, if that hasn't worked, is editing the hosts file, and changing bad domain names to the local address. See Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File

Originally Posted by whiteflags

The only other thing I can think of, if that hasn't worked, is editing the hosts file, and changing bad domain names to the local address. See Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File

If it is a page between links and not parallel connections, wouldn't that method result in 404 when those links are clicked ?

Originally Posted by Elysia

No, you would get a domain error. The host files block any attempts to connect to those servers, hence you can't get a 404 which is a sever response.

Why?
I knew that it just says that the specified domain is essentially localhost.
So, attempting to find.. say .. ad_454444.php on your computer would result in a file not found .

Originally Posted by Elysia

True, you would most likely get a 404, if your local computer is running a web server, which most aren't.

Even if it isn't, some kind of error would be shown (In Firefox: Can't establish connection) . And the original purpose, proceeding to the destination page, would have failed.

Originally Posted by MK27

You just haven't had the chance to upgrade sometime in the past four years or what? IE 6 is one of the most notoriously defective pieces of software of all time. If you insist on using it, why bother to complain about anything?

I'm not complaining. As I have IE 6 set up, it does 99 % of everything I need to do, and it does it fast.

As I already stated, others are having problems with IE 8 also. It's not just an IE 6 problem.

They seem to have fixed the problem although they are not saying what they did to fix it.

So thanks, and no need for anyone to look further for solutions.