Open 'http://ad.yieldman...62/A=4919451/R=0/*'?

[Doncho N. Gunchev]

On Friday 2007-10-05 06:01:12 Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- "Doncho N. Gunchev" <gunchev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 2007-10-05 00:20:51 Antonio Olivares
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > --- Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> 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