robinicus
02-23-2008, 02:28 PM
FYI,
If you are using Kaspersky 7.0 (IE or Firefox browsers it doesn't matter which one) and some posting links take you to a clickserve webpage and you don't link to the site you are supposed to (like Circuit City), but other posting links do take you to the correct website, it is NOT an error and Kaspersky is doing its job perfectly. What is happening is that you are being redirected (and all users are as well but the users who don't have Kaspersky just don't know it) through clickserve which pays SD a fee for every click that links to the website vendor. SD has contracted with some website vendors and clickserve but NOT all of them, so that is why some links work OK and others don't.
The only way to get around it right now, is to disable the banner publicity firewall. I tried to add clickserve etc to the whitelist (to allow) but it didn't work for me.
Some SDers posted on this before but assumed it was an error in Kaspersky but it is not. You can see the word, "redirect" in the URL for clickserve. You can modify the clickserve URL by deleting all clickserve info and deleting all the %2F characters that have replaced the slashes and that will take you to the correct website. The problems is that when people are using the link icon in postings, the clickserve junk is automatically being added to the URL link (for those websites that SD has contracted with). So, if you want to bypass this problem when you post you can just provide the naked URL without using the insert link icon (so no clickserve junk can be added), but will need to cut and paste it. Otherwise, you have to completely disable the banner/ad firewall of Kaspersky, which leaves you open to phishing crosssite scripting attacks.
If you are using Kaspersky 7.0 (IE or Firefox browsers it doesn't matter which one) and some posting links take you to a clickserve webpage and you don't link to the site you are supposed to (like Circuit City), but other posting links do take you to the correct website, it is NOT an error and Kaspersky is doing its job perfectly. What is happening is that you are being redirected (and all users are as well but the users who don't have Kaspersky just don't know it) through clickserve which pays SD a fee for every click that links to the website vendor. SD has contracted with some website vendors and clickserve but NOT all of them, so that is why some links work OK and others don't.
The only way to get around it right now, is to disable the banner publicity firewall. I tried to add clickserve etc to the whitelist (to allow) but it didn't work for me.
Some SDers posted on this before but assumed it was an error in Kaspersky but it is not. You can see the word, "redirect" in the URL for clickserve. You can modify the clickserve URL by deleting all clickserve info and deleting all the %2F characters that have replaced the slashes and that will take you to the correct website. The problems is that when people are using the link icon in postings, the clickserve junk is automatically being added to the URL link (for those websites that SD has contracted with). So, if you want to bypass this problem when you post you can just provide the naked URL without using the insert link icon (so no clickserve junk can be added), but will need to cut and paste it. Otherwise, you have to completely disable the banner/ad firewall of Kaspersky, which leaves you open to phishing crosssite scripting attacks.