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ok, my notebook computer is infected with that ad.yieldmanager thing running windovista. so i was going to just dump vista completly and put linux alone on that comp also ( ...
  1. 06-26-2008 #1
    bigvoo
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    ad.yieldmanager ?

    ok, my notebook computer is infected with that ad.yieldmanager thing running windovista. so i was going to just dump vista completly and put linux alone on that comp also ( already have ubuntu on one ) well, I just got done reading some guys post that he in running gentoo linux ( with firefox ) and that yield manager is messing up that comp... i read this on yahoo anwers b.t.w. is this stuff going to start causing problems in linux distros also ? I have not had any problems with ubuntu so far i love it, but now I'm worried what the future might bring. any thoughts ?
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    I just got done reading some guys post that he in running gentoo linux ( with firefox ) and that yield manager is messing up that comp... i read this on yahoo anwers
    Could you post its link over here?
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    here it is

    have a Gentoo Linux OS (not that I am a Linux techie, my son set it up for me!). I cannot search my Yahoo home page to read the news, or even ebay, without spending half my time with pop-up boxes that say the same thing, "ad.yieldmanager.com" with a bunch of numbers. It gives you three choices, save at, open, or cancel, along with a box which you can check "don't ask again." The more I cancel, the more it pops up, and it is getting worse daily. The "don't ask again" is a joke. I have stopped reading my Yahoo news or checking baseball scores it is so bad. How can I get rid of this problem?
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    This is the only reference I could find for ad.yieldmanager and Linux:

    Re: ad.yieldmanager.com - Konqueror

    In your case (Gentoo) the command would be emerge privoxy.
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