WCollins and stickyb,
If I'm wrong, then I'll be glad to admit it. (Actually, I'm not concerned about being "right" or "wrong" -- I am trying to help solve the problems that you and others are encountering.)
However, at the moment, I'm still thinking that there might be differences in the way our browsers are set.
I've just downloaded the latest version of SpyBot, and ran it. Nothing from PPRuNe. (Actually, nothing at all, thankfully). Same thing when I ran AdAware from Lavasoft. Then, I cleared all my caches, histories, etc. (using PurgeIE -- a great tool, IMHO) so that I could start with a "clean slate". I then went to more than 10 different PPRuNe pages and got no warnings. But, just to be safe, I ran SpyBot again. Nothing at all.
So, am I wrong? Are others (who posted on this thread and the related thread, who also have no problems with PPRuNe) wrong too? Or do we just have different browser settings which have a different way of handling cookies?
Remember that AvenueA is advertising spyware. Remember also Danny's quote in the previous thread "The product you have referred to is probably something one of the advertisers uses to track you if you visit their website and it will be able to verify that you came from PPRuNe but that's it." It really sounds to me like the warnings are coming from the ads on PPRuNe pages, but not PPRuNe itself.
Again, I could be wrong, but rather than taking an adversarial stance, let's work on this together.
I'll tell you what ... take a look at your browser settings and see how your browser is set to handle cookies. I'll do some more tests with SpyBot and Lavasoft and see if I can duplicate any of the warnings you're getting.