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Originally Posted by kbudden
Are you running Norton or some similar security package?
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When it became obvious that the problem was "me"
I shut down everything (Avast Anti Virus & Microsoft's Beta Anti Spyware)
I have been through the registry line by line looking for all instances of "Trade Doubler" and deleting it.
Looked at the security & privacy settings in Internet Explorer & reduced them to the minimum, with all advanced settings reset to default.
Been into the hosts file and seen that it only had: localhost 127.0.0.1
Downloaded one of this programs that examines your windsock programme, nothing untoward
All to no avail.
However I did notice even the logos from tradedoubler.com don't come through either when I sign into Trade Doubler, though the UK gifs do. Now at the start of them is the following:
http://hstde.tradedoubler.com
Does anybody know what this "HSTDE" is. I feel that somewhere in my system or perhaps on BT Broadband there is a setting that does not recognise this term?
Anybody with BT Broadband out there who could just check that they can get that link. I have "Googled" it, but strangely nothing much is mentioned.
Thanks for your help, but this is a strange, strange effect that has, I now realise, cost me money as I have taken all my affliate links out for no real purpose!
Paul