•AdBrite, AdViva, DoubleClick, MediaPlex

[Robie]

Hi

How do I get rid of these four tracking cookies forever?

• AdBrite, AdViva, DoubleClick, MediaPlex

spybot flags them up as tracking cookies. I have set up Chrome to block these cookies, yet the turn up every week I run spybot.

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Thanks.

[HansV]

I wouldn't worry too much about them, but if you wish, you can block these sites by adding a line for each of them of the form

127.0.0.1    adbrite.com

to your HOSTS file in C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc. It is a plain text file (without extension) that can be edited in Notepad.

[Robie]

Thanks Hans.

EDIT: Got it Hans. I googled it. Thanks for your help.

Thanks.

Robie

[HansV]

127.0.0.1 is the IP address of "localhost", your own computer. By referring those sites to localhost, they are effectively blocked from doing anything on your computer. See for example How to: Use the HOSTS file to block websites in Windows? for more info, or search Google.