Hi Shari at Bixby, I went to Yahoo and did a search for Avenue A, Inc. Sounds like Avenue A spyware is probably provided by some of your legitimate software, I'd guess? There were products also to remove the spyware. So sounds like it's on your machine, not the web site, although I don't know what process you use to maintain your web info. I am wondering how it got out there. To learn more, I clicked on the Wikipedia link that was on the screen. Wikipedia says, in part, ----------------------------------- "Microsoft announced on May 18, 2007 it will acquire Avenue A | Razorfish as part of a $6.0 billion cash purchase of parent company aQuantive.[2] The deal is expected to be completed in calendar 2007. Spyware Controversy As part of their digital advertising service, Atlas, a sister company of Avenue A | Razorfish, writes cookies to users' machines that are used to track their non-personally identifiable data and behavior, to allow for the delivery of more targeted advertising. These cookies are or have been listed by several spyware removal programs including Spybot,[3] the Computer Associates Spyware Information Center[4] and the Scan Spyware online spyware removal tool.[5] The Avenue A | Razorfish privacy notice indicates that the company "may collect information about user interaction with client Web sites and provide that information and our analysis to the client" and the type of information that is collected is not specified.[6]. Avenue A | Razorfish directs users that are concerned about how Avenue A clients might use information they collect to the privacy policies of their clients' websites.[7]" ------------------------------------- I'd probably consider a number of options - go out to McAfee or Nortan and read up on it; possibly go ahead and accept the cookie, temporarily; and/or look into removing it with Spybot . I went to the Avenue A / Razorfish web site and it was meaningless, not forthcoming about spyware or much of anything that I could see, just ad agency stuff. Gloria. On Jun 24, 2007, at 6:58 AM, Bixby Historical Society wrote: > Does anyone have an easy to update suggestion for organizing and > posting a group of photos on a website? Like most historical > societies, our money needs to stretch in many directions so am > looking for something very reasonable in price or something I can > write, myself. It doesn't need to be 'cute' just neat, easily > navigated and quickly updated. Would like to see examples on some > websites. > > Shari > > P.S. About Hacker: > Using IE browser, when I go to the 'View' page of our guestbook, I > get a notice that Avenue A, Inc. (a cookie) needs to download to my > hard drive. I block it but have noticed that, now, 'back' button > on that page no longer works. Can't tell how long this has > happened. IE is not my preferred browser, however, I often check > to see how things appear on IE because many of our site users do > prefer it. I have no problem with other browsers. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

On 6/24/07, Gloria Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd probably consider a number of options - go out to McAfee or > Nortan and read up on it; possibly go ahead and accept the cookie, > temporarily; and/or look into removing it with Spybot . I went to > the Avenue A / Razorfish web site and it was meaningless, not > forthcoming about spyware or much of anything that I could see, just > ad agency stuff. It's never, ever, ever a good idea to accept a cookie from spyware--- or any site unknown to you. Spyware OFTEN writes registry values to your PC's registry -- and then is tough to remove. Most users end up rewriting their entire harddrive! Cost: $100.00 to $200.00 unless you know how to do it. Plus, HOURS of time lost. So NEVER willingly accept a cookie from these jerks (sorry, but that's the way I see those ad companies). I also think it should be a Federal crime for a company to change a PC Registry without permission of the user. Judy