--- "Doncho N. Gunchev" <gunchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 2007-10-05 06:01:12 Antonio Olivares > wrote: > > --- "Doncho N. Gunchev" <gunchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Friday 2007-10-05 00:20:51 Antonio Olivares > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > when surfing the net with Konqueror and > > > reading > > > > > yahoo > > > > > > mail, I get the following box: > > > > > > > > > > mail.yahoo.com WORKSFORME. Was it simply > > > logging in > > > > > that started this, or > > > > > something else? > > > > > > > > > > -- Rex > > > > > > > > I do not know what causes it. This happens > when > > > > checking emails within yahoo mail. > > > > > > > > If you care to look at a snapshot here it is: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.geocities.com/olivares14031/Screenshot-adyieldman.png > > > > > > Yep, I've seen that. My quick fix/workaround is > to > > > see what the ads > > > site is (resize the dialog) and a quick: > > > $ echo "127.255.255.254 bad.add.site.com" | sudo > tee > > > -a /etc/hosts > > > :-) > > > > ... > > > > So the command would be ad.yieldmanager.com > instead of > > bad.site.com correct? > > Exactly. > > > Thanks for helping, > > You are welcome, but this is not a fix, this is > workaround. Imagine > you needed to see this advertisement... > The thing to fix is ad.yieldmanager.com, but > browsers sometimes > tolerate buggy sites when the bug is widespread :-(, > so it's > not so clear what should be fixed or not. You should > report > this to KDE's bugzilla I think. > > -- > Regards, > Doncho N. Gunchev, GPG key ID: 0EF40B9E, Key > server: pgp.mit.edu > Doncho, Thanks to your suggestions, I found something that helps tremendously and it is working (crossing my fingers). I went to Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> Adblock Filters and clicked on Enable filters added the expression http://ad.yieldmanager.com/ Clicked OK and so far all is well. Thanks for your suggestion I also did that on the other machine combined with this and the ads have stopped. Regards, Antonio ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/ -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
