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Re: Can't turn off ABE Notifications!

by hhhobbit » Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:50 pm

Has this been handled to everybody's satisfaction? Since there has been nothing posted in quite a while I assume it has. If not, please contact me at my email address (at the top of my hosts file in hopefully a way a bot cannot read it) and we will discuss it privately for a while.

http://www.securemecca.com/Downloads/hosts.txt

I must say that an error of thinking exists here. Our combination of a very powerful PAC filter (OS neutral, browser neutral, IP specific and the one proposed here will not work) and a RTS hosts file exists to:

1. Stop your machine from going to hosts that can cause severe damage to your machine. This includes malware, spyware, etcetera. There are hosts you want no part of.

2. Stop your machine from even visiting tracking hosts. It isn't enough to just hobble them with NoScript - we want them gone.

3. Stop ads.

I think once that is understood, people will see how this fits into the bigger security picture. I also think it needs to be emphasized that I am recommending NoScript and will not back away from that. So it behooves us to make hosts files, PAC filters, and NoScript work harmoniously together to protect people. As powerful as NoScript is, there are some hosts you just don't want anything to do with, and NoScript won't do that for you. A hosts file, PAC filter, or the WOT will do that for you.

Re: Can't turn off ABE Notifications!

by fendertweed » Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:39 pm

Giorgio Maone wrote:@fendertweed:
you did not read the rest of this thread (nor this post) and, most inportant, you're not using latest development build 1.9.5.73.

... much better, thanks.

Re: Can't turn off ABE Notifications!

by Guest » Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:31 pm

Giorgio Maone wrote:@fendertweed:
you did not read the rest of this thread (nor this post) and, most inportant, you're not using latest development build 1.9.5.73.
I will read the link you provided, but in fact I just downloaded and installed the latest development build before testing the page that gave me the URL I put in my post (unless it failed to install properly --- it gave me no hint that it didn't).

I will try to install it again.

Re: Can't turn off ABE Notifications!

by Giorgio Maone » Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:04 pm

@fendertweed:
you did not read the rest of this thread (nor this post) and, most inportant, you're not using latest development build 1.9.5.73.

Re: Can't turn off ABE Notifications!

by fendertweed » Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:29 pm

I am getting the messages too, using latest NoScript, Firefox 3.5 --- very annoying. I am using a hosts file to block ad scripts.

Here is one of the error messages:

[ABE] <LOCAL> Deny on {GET http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/forums.da ... sz=300x250; <<< http://townhall-talk.edmunds.com/WebX?1 ... 17adf/1841}
SYSTEM rule:
Site LOCAL
Accept from LOCAL
Deny

Re: Can't turn off ABE Notifications!

by Alan Baxter » Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:00 pm

That's already been done. Install the latest development build.
http://noscript.net/getit#devel

Re: Can't turn off ABE Notifications!

by roadrunner » Sat Jul 11, 2009 7:23 pm

In the next release, please provide an option to disable/suppress abe notifications.

Re: Can't turn off ABE Notifications!

by JustSurfing » Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:50 pm

Had the same problem: Big Hosts file with 127.0.0.1 redirects and a 6 line ebay yahoo adserver alert.
The latest Development build fixed it! Thank you.
Win2000 sp4 Firefox 3.5

Re: Can't turn off ABE Notifications!

by Giorgio Maone » Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:57 am

Could you copy and paste one of them from Tools|Error Console.
Also, did you try to upgrade to latest development build 1.9.5.6, which should mitigate this issue?

Re: Can't turn off ABE Notifications!

by Guest » Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:54 am

Giorgio Maone wrote:@H. Hall:
if you turned off ABE those notification are from elsewhere.
Could you report exactly what the message is?
The ABE message is very long. It has the ABE icon on the left and ends with Filtered by ABE: local deny.

The message re-appears when I refresh the page, with ABE turned off.

After some playing around, I think that the message may only come up in pre-existing tabs. If I create a new tab and bring up the same page, the message is not there when ABE is turned off, but messages remain in existing tabs. (Firefox browser 3.0.11)

Re: Can't turn off ABE Notifications!

by Giorgio Maone » Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:14 am

@H. Hall:
if you turned off ABE those notification are from elsewhere.
Could you report exactly what the message is?

Re: Can't turn off ABE Notifications!

by H. Hall » Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:01 am

I tried turning off ABE and still got the notifications. On sites like the wall st. journal, the notifications are about 4 lines high and very annoying.

The idea of ABE is very good as is the rest of your product. You have done a great job.

I can live with the notifications until you have time to add an off switch.

Re: Can't turn off ABE Notifications!

by Giorgio Maone » Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:53 am

Sweendog wrote:Actually, I just tried the workaround, and I'm still getting ABE notifications.
Can I see both the warning and your host file?
BTW, did you try latest development build like I suggested in my previous post?
It should both automatically suppress notifications for 127.0.0.1 on default ports, and has a NoScript Options|Notifications|ABE options to turn them off completely.

Re: Can't turn off ABE Notifications!

by Sweendog » Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:28 am

Actually, I just tried the workaround, and I'm still getting ABE notifications. Just visit http://www.comcast.net for an example. I also get them all over the Yahoo news pages, as well as other locations. I'm happy to let ABE block whatever its designed to do, I just want to be able to turn off the notificaitons, they're almost as annoying as the ads. :(

Re: Can't turn off ABE Notifications!

by Sweendog » Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:15 am

Are you planning on building a way to turn those notifications off? I don't like the idea of changing my host file to an invalid IP address as a workaround. Leaving it at localhost ensures a clean, quick 'reset' when the browser calls for ads from craptastic.site.com or whatever other host makes it into my local blacklist.

Thanks,
Bill

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