Why is Yahoo slow to respond to attacks from their website?

No need to panic, those "viruses" aren't real viruses, they are tracking cookies - let me explain...

Some time ago Yahoo had technical problems and accidentally placed a script in the box on the YA pages instead of the flash ads normally displayed. That's when I found out that adyield-manager and "bluelithium" are used to place personalized ads - they use cookies to track your browsing habits, so you may get a different ad displayed than somebody sitting right next to you. That prompted me to look for solutions since I don't like to get spied upon, and I found several good solutions...

1: Click tools in your top bar -> click "Internet Options" -> click "Security" tab -> click on "Restricted Sites" -> click "Sites", type in the following two sites:

http://ads.bluelithium.com/

http://ad.yieldmanager.com/

Or 2: Download and install the latest Firefox browser:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Install "adblock plus":

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/186...

Result: no more annoying ads! And pages are loading much quicker too...:-)

3: http://www.admuncher.com/ - this adblocker for the IE (and other browsers) gets highly recommended in several forums.

4: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26171/safari-... - for Safari Mac

5: http://opindian.com/blog/2009/02/25/adblock-soluti... - another solution for Safari 4 Win and Mac.

I for one have the Firefox installed and don't see a single ad on the Yahoo pages...:-)

About the Yahoo staff reading anything posted on YA: they have only a few staff members, but YA has millions of users - it would be impossible to monitor everything posted on YA...

Because they're idiots and probably only a few of people work for them!

I think Yahoo Customer Service hardly cares about the average person on here!

Hmm... undecided approximately that one, and not that professional in viruses the two. yet i visit assert that browser-based spyware is getting further and added intrusive. i take advantage of Maleware Byte's AntiMalware and Spybot seek & smash. the two are loose, run interior the background without throwing up greater than a number of popup crap, and do a solid activity of removing junk.

bad people trying to extract a dollar from a million people, without even adding anything usefull or fun or valuable in any way?