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Downloads do not complete - googleads.g.doubleclick.net
On two different websites in the last few days I have experienced the
same problem. I use Thunderbird. In a message, I click on a link to get further details of an item. The correct web page downloads but after it is about 90% complete it hangs with the "loading" message still showing. In several cases the message the Status Bar showed "Waiting for googleads.g.doubleclick.net" but I think there were other similar "Waiting for .." messages. I asked one of the websites and they said that no one else had reported any problems. Have I got a virus ? I have AVG virus checker and Outpost firewall. Stuart |
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Downloads do not complete - googleads.g.doubleclick.net
Stuart Grant wrote:
On two different websites in the last few days I have experienced the same problem. I use Thunderbird. In a message, I click on a link to get further details of an item. The correct web page downloads but after it is about 90% complete it hangs with the "loading" message still showing. In several cases the message the Status Bar showed "Waiting for googleads.g.doubleclick.net" but I think there were other similar "Waiting for .." messages. I asked one of the websites and they said that no one else had reported any problems. Have I got a virus ? I have AVG virus checker and Outpost firewall. Stuart Do you have a block on Google's ad servers? Could be if you use blocklists from SpywareBlaster or similar utilities that add sites to the Restricted Sites security zone. Could be if you use a pre-compiled hosts file that redirects "bad" sites to 127.0.0.1, like the MVPS hosts file (googleads.g.doubleclick.net happens to be one of its entries). Scripts expect objects to exist in the web page's document. Those objects can be generated by other scripts or define by the web page or in content delivered to that page. If you block that content then the script errors because the coders were too stupid to bother checking if the object existed before trying to use it. Is there an error icon at the lower right of the web browser in the status bar? What does it say? If you see a "gat" error then, yep, you are blocking Google's ad/tracking crap and the scripts on that page are erroring due to crappy code. |
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Downloads do not complete - googleads.g.doubleclick.net
"Waiting for googleads.g.doubleclick.net"
Stuart I am sorry to say you have some sort of Malware\Trojan . Run the following free tools as per below below Download, install, run, update and perform a full scan (separately) with the following two applications (freeware versions are the ones to use for this): SuperAntiSpyware http://www.superantispyware.com/ MalwareBytes http://www.malwarebytes.com/ After performing a full scan with one and then the other and removing whatever they both find completely, you may uninstall these products, if you wish. Download and run the MSRT manually: http://www.microsoft.com/security/ma...e/default.mspx Reboot. -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Stuart Grant" wrote in message ... On two different websites in the last few days I have experienced the same problem. I use Thunderbird. In a message, I click on a link to get further details of an item. The correct web page downloads but after it is about 90% complete it hangs with the "loading" message still showing. In several cases the message the Status Bar showed "Waiting for googleads.g.doubleclick.net" but I think there were other similar "Waiting for .." messages. I asked one of the websites and they said that no one else had reported any problems. Have I got a virus ? I have AVG virus checker and Outpost firewall. Stuart |
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Downloads do not complete - googleads.g.doubleclick.net
Thanks to those who jumped in to help.
I finally found the culprit - Agnitum Firewall Pro. Apparently in a recent update it installed a plug-in "Ads", which seems to have been blocking everything it considered an ad - not just Google. The cause was usually said to be IMAGE, whatever that is. I have removed the plug-in and the problem has disappeared. I have also reported it to Agnitum. Stuart Stuart Grant wrote: On two different websites in the last few days I have experienced the same problem. I use Thunderbird. In a message, I click on a link to get further details of an item. The correct web page downloads but after it is about 90% complete it hangs with the "loading" message still showing. In several cases the message the Status Bar showed "Waiting for googleads.g.doubleclick.net" but I think there were other similar "Waiting for .." messages. I asked one of the websites and they said that no one else had reported any problems. Have I got a virus ? I have AVG virus checker and Outpost firewall. Stuart |
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Downloads do not complete - googleads.g.doubleclick.net
Stuart Grant wrote:
I finally found the culprit - Agnitum Firewall Pro. Apparently in a recent update it installed a plug-in "Ads", which seems to have been blocking everything it considered an ad - not just Google. The cause was usually said to be IMAGE, whatever that is. I have removed the plug-in and the problem has disappeared. They added an ad-blocker component. Of those that I've seen in other products or as stand-alone programs, the user can still either modify their blacklist (to remove an entry causing the problem) or create a whitelist (that overrides the blacklist). There was no configurability to their ad-blocker? If configurable, there really isn't a problem to report. It's up to the user to understand the product and all its features to know how to use and configure it to their likes. If the slid in the ad-blocker without notifying the user then that's a problem. |
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