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n30
12-27-2003, 07:55 PM
While visiting this site lately, I'm getting a lot of hits that say ...something about blocking:

Avenue A, Inc.

What's up with this?

bannoy
12-28-2003, 05:43 AM
Avenue A is an ad-serving company. The alert you're getting is from a cookie it places on your computer to let it know it's served you an ad already.

I'd suggest ignoring it, or using a different spyware detector (other than adaware). We've gotten these same Avenue A reports on a board that I mod. They're false alarms...

slickdeals
12-28-2003, 05:52 AM
Avenue A, Inc. serves some of the banner ads at the top. You're welcome to block off the banner ads if it annoys you.

n30
12-29-2003, 08:44 AM
Aaaah, okay. I'm using SpyBot (quite awesome), and I always like to know what's being blocked. Not that I care about the ad ...just wanted to make sure that something isn't trying to backdoor my machine ;)