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I'm still having this problem. In fact, "SpyOnYou" just popped up. It does seem to be related to Drudge and/or FR.

I've tried several pop-up blockers, constantly clear cache and cookies, tried AdAware...Anyone have anymore ideas, short of switching to Mozilla?

Did you ever solve this problem? I was still getting it after trying numerous pop-up blockers and in spite of always cleaning the cache and removing cookies. It was consistent with visiting Drudge. Could it have been some kind of hidden program that was put on my system that created the 'spyonyou' cookie?

I finally broke down last weekend and wiped my hard drive clean, and reinstalled everything from scratch. The problem seems to be solved..

Very interesting discussion.

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This has nothing to do with FR, or AdWare. It doesn't really have anything to do with cookies, except that Drudge's advertiser puts one on your machine to make sure they don't send you a pop-up too often.

If you "View|Source" on drudgereport.com, you'll see this near the top of the HTML:

< POP-UNDER CODE v1.7 for drudgereport.com >
<
var doc=document;  var url=escape(doc.location.href); var date_ob=new Date();
doc.cookie='h2=o; path=/;';var bust=date_ob.getSeconds();
if(doc.cookie.indexOf('e=llo') <= 0 && doc.cookie.indexOf('2=o') > 0){
doc.write('scr'+'ipt language="javascript" src="http://media.fastclick.net');
doc.write('/w/pop.cgi?sid=8627&m=2&v=1.7e&u='+url+'&c='+bust+'">');
date_ob.setTime(date_ob.getTime()+43200000);
doc.cookie='he=llo; path=/; expires='+ date_ob.toGMTString();} // 

< POP-UNDER CODE v1.7 for drudgereport.com -->

That's where the pop-up is coming from (actually it's a pop-under). It's a JavaScript on Drudge's home page. You could disable JavaScript (called "Active Scripting" on IE) and that will kill all pop-ups of this sort. Unfortunately, it will also disable a lot of the commercial sites you visit.

You can delete cookies until you're blue in the face, and you won't make this go away. In fact it will happen more often, because these guys use a cookie to limit how often they hit you with the ad.

I have been running Ad Aware for about 4 months and it seems to work very well keeping my cookies from loaded up from spyware.

However, each time I get a new pop-up window, I right click on it, select properties. Then I copy the URL up to the end of .com and add it to the list of restricted sites. The drill is:

In IE, click on tools.
Click on the dropdown menu of Options.
Then click the Security tab and then click on Restricted sites, then click on Sites.
This brings up a text slot "Add this Web site to the zone: where I paste the URL and then click Add.

Here is the list of sites I have added to my restricted site list. For heavens sake don't click on any of these links. I put them in a format so they shouldn't be hot links.

Web sites that have either popped up or have generated bad cookies:
http://ad.doubleclick.net
http://m2.doubleclick.net
http://m.doubleclick.net
*.doubleclick.net
*.doubleclick.com
*.fastclick.net
*.doubleclick.com
*.fastclick.net
*.fastclick.com
http://ads.x10.com
*.x10.com
http://cserver.mii.instacontent.net
*.x10.com
http://cserver.mii.instacontent.net
*.instacontent.net
*.instacontent.com
http://ww2.weatherbug.com
*.weatherbug.com
http://ww2.weatherbug.com
*.weatherbug.com
http://www.sharewareonline.com
http://banners.valuead.com
http://banners.valuead.net
http://ads.yourfreedvds.com
http://banners.valuead.net
http://ads.yourfreedvds.com
http://ad.trafficmp.com
http://images.trafficmp.com
http://a248.g.akamaitech.net
http://www.netvisionsenterprises.com
http://a248.g.akamaitech.net
http://www.netvisionsenterprises.com
http://z1.adserver.com
http://www.angelfire.com
http://us.a1.yimg.com
http://www.image.ft.com
http://us.a1.yimg.com
http://www.image.ft.com
http://info.accumail.com
http://shopping.webmarket.com
http://amch.questionmarket.com
http://clickit.go2net.com
http://amch.questionmarket.com
http://clickit.go2net.com
servedby.advertising.com
http://servedby.advertising.com
http://bannerfarm.ace.advertising.com
servedby.advertising.net
http://bannerfarm.ace.advertising.com
servedby.advertising.net
*.servedby.advertising.*
servedby.advertising.us
*.servedby.advertising
http://img.mediaplex.com
*.servedby.advertising
http://img.mediaplex.com
http://view.atdmt.com
http://spd.atdmt.com
http://www.flowgo.com
http://www.linkfinding.com
http://www.flowgo.com
http://www.linkfinding.com
http://ads.fortunecity.com
http://www.fortunecity.com
http://a.tribalfusion.com
http://ad.smni.com
http://a.tribalfusion.com
http://ad.smni.com
http://static.smni.com
http://ads.hitcents.com
http://radiop1.xr1.net
http://ad.linksynergy.com
http://radiop1.xr1.net
http://ad.linksynergy.com
http://www.jit-software.com
http://www.hotels.net
http://www.perfiliate.com
http://www3.bannerspace.com
http://www.perfiliate.com
http://www3.bannerspace.com
http://global.msads.net
http://subs.timeinc.net
*.valueclick.net
*.valueclick.com
*.valueclick.net
*.valueclick.com
*.valueclick.org
*.valueclick.usa
*.valueclick.info
http://www.youclick2earn.com
*.valueclick.info
http://www.youclick2earn.com
http://63.246.3.5
http://209.164.32.120
http://208.253.92.54

Some of these might be redundant, but this list is working. Very seldom does Ad Aware find any new offending cookies now.