Hmm. It's the City Equities ad alright -- but I don't think it's a Java issue, per se. It's definitely doing something really mill-intensive.

Is it constantly acquiring the name to display over and over again?

My surname has an S at the beginning, but City Equities have this as a 5. So it's acquiring the name by interrogating something or doing an OCR. I find this quite disturbing from a personal privacy point of view.

SC - yes I found the name disturbing at first - invasion of pricacy sort of thing but I guess City Equities don't actually have access to your details - the advert will be written by moneyam and as such they just access their own database. Very clever marketing.

Why does my surname have the 5, not an S then???

Curious.

If they are running a Java applet on your computer which has obtained that information, is there anything to stop it sending that info to City Equities?

Edit

My network crashed as I was typing the above post. Am I going paranoid?

Rob - you'll be known as 5eymour Clearly from now on -- 5C for short.

I would assume that MAM has provided an interface for the ad to address you personally and that information will not be available to City Equities, so I doubt there's a privacy issue. MAM are sensitive to such issues, I'm sure.

Optimist: Yes ;-)

Haystack: I don't think it is continually acquiring the name. But something's cosuming a lot of mill. Flash?

I had similar problems a few years ago with a Flash ad on the other side. I think some of them are just very badly written. In the ideal world web sites would test the ads before running them.

Kayak - you must mean the famous IG index ad - it was so bad I ended up paying advfn to not take their adverts. They were completely insensitive to the issue.

I'm sure moneyam will come up with a sensible solution. but for today no heatmap which is a pain.

Cheers Derek.

53YM0UR Cl38RL7

I read that easily, I need to go to Specsavers :-)

Ssshhhhhhhhhhhhh, Kayak. He gets very upset when you say that word.

:o)

Well so he should.

537MOU8 C134817 ;)

Still struggling with the fallout from zotzing cookies :S

Couldn't read yours Choccy. You must have been to S


omewhere else :-)

pc ran fine today with heatmap. Guess I'll just have to source it from somewhere else until the ad campaign with city equities is finished

Anyone able to help a technophobic.

Since upgrading to Vista I often encounter the following problem when attempting to go onto Internet Explorer. Sometimes it requires over 5 attempts till it works.
I open Internet Explorer and am presented with the following message (and often a frozen screen).

Internet Explorer has encountered a problem with an add-on and needs to close.

Add-on name Site Adv.dll
Company name McAfee Inc
Details Site Adviser.

Once open the problem does not arise, it is just on the initial opening of IE.

I do not want to loose this add-on if possible.
Suggestions gratefully received.

First of all I don't know Vista, but it sounds like a conflict between McAfee antivirus / security and IE. Is your copy of IE the latest version? If not suggest you download that from Microsoft.

If that's not it McAfee need to know so they can resolve it.

Or you could use Mozilla Firefox :-)

Is this the problem? Look near the bottom of the page. The problem was being discussed in January. It may be a highjack problem as ADV.DLL is also a well known trojan. Have you tried virus and adware scans?

http://www.shiachat.com/forum/index.php?s=c36fa1fa4cd872153c62128376c64d07&showtopic=234916095&st=0&p=1302557entry1302557

Thanks Seymour,

Yes latest IE. As to McAfee, it came in an included deal with Dell and Vista.
This problem did not occur immediately after installing Vista but has sort of crept in. I will contact McAfee and see what they say.
Vista looks good, but there are many having problems. I might end up getting rid of Vista if I can't cure it. As to Mozilla, it wont work with all the sites I use.

Hi Haystack,

Will look at that over the weekend when I have more time. I do a regular full scan, last one being last Friday. It was clear but will do another on Saturday.
Will let you know the results of your suggestions.

Thanks Again both
Greek.

Try this

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t71239.html