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Thanks for your comments…. Ref Dick-Y’s post, How can I check which build I have present on my PC ? I can’t see any reference to a ‘build’ on the ‘Properties’ page of Win 7….

I downloaded the appropriate ISO file from the suggested website, but when I tried to Unzip it, WinZip created an error :

Extracting efimicrosoftbootfontschs_boot.ttf Unable to create file.

This file and all the files in this ‘fonts’ folder are of Zero length.
I repeated the download from the Techdows website and tried again but the result was the same

I bought this program about a year ago to try to fix some problems on my Win 7 Laptop. It totally screwed up my computer and I had to reinstall everything:(
I did manage to get a refund…. I wouldn’t touch it with a very long bargepole !!!

Hi Sven,

Yes, I added the clk.atdmt.com to the filters, when I installed the add-on, and the ‘ABP’ symbol is showing Red at the top right of the display.

It is indeed very strange. After accessing the website and being directed to clk.atdmt.com site, I had a look on the Adblock Plus preferences window, the ‘Hits’ counter for the clk.atdmt.com entry, is showing Zero ! I’ve attached a screenshot of this window. No matter how many times I access the site, the hit counter remains at Zero!!

I think I’ll just give up on this one – it’s not really important – just an annoyance and only happens with the quoted website………….

Thanks for your interest in my problem – it is very much appreciated

Thanks for taking the trouble to reply again Sven.

I downloaded the ‘Adblock Plus 1.1.3’ program, as you suggested, installed it in Firefox (ver 3.6) and accessed the link in question again. However, exactly the same thing is happening when I click on the link which contains this address : “http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/go/MTYxNjgtMTYyMjgtMTIxNjUtMC0wLTk5”
I’ve had to add the inverted commas because this forum shortens the address to http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/go/MTYxNjgtMTYyMjgtMTIxNjUtMC0wLTk5 which does not show the entire address.

I have checked that the Adblock Plus ‘add-on’ is active in Firefox and it is reported as ‘enabled’.

As I said before, it would appear that the problem is caused by the last part of the address ( go/MTYxNjgtMTYyMjgtMTIxNjUtMC0wLTk5 ) since if I shorten the target address to : http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/ the correct page appears.

I realise that this is generally not a ‘dangerous’ problem – just an annoyance, since clicking on the link only produces a blank page, instead of the desired page.

Thanks for your suggestion Sven. Having checked my Hosts file there is only the usual single entry ( 127.0.0.1 localhost ) so no luck there…………

Thank you for your replies, however, despite following all your suggestions, the problem still exists every time I try to access the particular page, via the link quoted in my original post. I have scanned my laptop using ‘Malwarebytes Anti Malware’ (which I already had on my laptop), Lavasoft’s ‘Ad-Aware’, ‘Spybot Search and Destroy’ and my resident ‘Kaspersky 2010’. All scans used the ‘Full Scan’ option – where appropriate – rather than just a Quick Scan. None of these programs dectected any problems…….. I did ‘Google’ atdmt before I submitted my original post but drew a blank as far as a solution is concerned.

After deleting the http://clk.adtmt.com cookie from the list of cookies, and having this website blocked in both the ‘Security’ and ‘Privacy’ tabs of the ‘Internet Options’ settings, if I click on the stated link, I am still being re-directed to ‘atdmt’ and the cookie re-appears in the list.

On further investigation, if I use just the first section of the address i.e. http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/ , the desired website is accessed, so it would appear that the problem is being caused by the content of the latter part of the address ( go/MTYxNjgtMTYyMjgtMTIxNjUtMC0wLTk5 )

Incidentally, The ‘Kaspersky Internet Security 2010’ includes protection against Malware as well as viruses, and is consistantly reported to be among the top security packages available, so I’m not really surprised that other Malware scan programs did not find anything