[Tfug] Annoying cookies

[Sam Hart]

I haven't seen this specifically, but a really quick way to fix it (if you 
don't care about this view.atdmt.com site) would be to alias it for 
localhost in your /etc/hosts file. Something like this will take care of 
it nicely:

127.0.0.1	view.atdmt.com

This would even work in Windows (tho, you'd have to figure out where they 
squirrelled this file away.... XP Pro usually has it in
{SYSTEM ROOT}/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc )

* On 04-06-29, ewf wrote:

> 
>     I  keep getting error messages from Mozilla:
> 
>                               The operation timed out when attempting to 
> contact view.atdmt.com
> 
>     Evidently this is a connection to an advertizer on financial & 
> investing websites. A check
> of Netcraft shows that Netcraft was able to contact them. Anyway I 
> deleted the cookie
> but the message still occurs when I visit financial websites, (Bloomberg 
> <http://www.bloomberg.com/>, CNN Money <http://money.cnn.com/>)
>      Apparently the process that plants the cookie has a life of its own 
> even when the
> URL is dead. Has anyone else seen this?
> 
>                                                                         
>                                                                         
>  Cheers,
>                                                                         
>                                                                         
>   Erich
> 
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Sam Hart
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