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    Amazon ad?

    Amazon ad?
    http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53218
    Just today, I've noticed a problem when I enter the civfanatics.com main page. It first loads up the page (with the usual pop-up which gets blocked by my pop-up blocker). But then, the page advances on its own to an Amazon.com web page, shown here: I ran Adaware, removed all identified...


    From this post, I tried an experiment here at Apolyton, and had the same results here as I have at CFC.

    The first time I go to the Apolyton main page, www.apolyton.net , in any window, I get a redirect to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/su...267609-9609642 . It is only the first time I try to go to the Apolyton main page in a window; subsequent attempts in that particular window will take me to the main page. This also happens if I have multiple windows open; any tiime I go to Apolyton's main page in a window for the first time in that window, it redirects.

    This is using IE 6, the latest version. It doesn't happen in either Netscape or Opera. I have tried 3 different computers, and it happens on all three. Windows XP Pro and Home, and Windows 2000 OS.
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    on our main page (www.apolyton.net), do you get any warnings on parasites?
    Co-Founder, Apolyton Civilization Site
    Co-Owner/Webmaster, Top40-Charts.com | CTO, Apogee Information Systems
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      Isn't our main page apolyton.net (without the www.)
      I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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        It doesn't matter, does it (with or without the www.)?

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          No, it doesn't matter with or without the www.

          On the three computers I use, I get no warning about parasites, MarkG; and I used to see the warning on this computer. I do get the following file: parasite.js with the internet address: http://apolyton.net/parasite.js in my temporary internet files showing 9 KB in size, original date January 23, 2003.

          On the computer I am currently on, I know it has spyware (Xupiter among others), but I don't have admin privileges for the computer so I can't remove any spyware from it.

          I ran spybot on one of my home computers last night and it came up clean; I will run adaware on both and spybot on the other computer when I get home and see if that makes a difference. I did run both spybot and adaware several times since this problem started and they haven't shown any spyware the last two times I have run them. I update both programs before I run the scans.

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            http://apolyton.net is Apolyton's official and primary address, which is e.g. used for PR and such.
            "Kids, don't listen to uncle Solver unless you want your parents to spank you." - Solver

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