Astrisk in Yahoo! links

I cannot navigate Yahoo..

[iJeep]

This has been bothering me for a while, and I don't why why it is happening. Everybody knows about the astrisk (*) that Yahoo! uses for monitoring where we are all clicking on their site. But for some reason I cannot get my browser to follow the links. I have to delete the astrisk on back and then hit enter on every link I goto.

I usually just go to a different site, but I am trying to find out about SBC/Yahoo DSL and have to put up with it.

Does anybody else have this problem or know why I do?

It does it in both MSIE and NN. I am on Windows XP.

[2_much]

Hi Ijeep,

I've never had this before, and have no idea why this could be happening to you. I don't know much about technical stuff, I'm more into marketing.

But maybe someone else may have some ideas?

[hakre]

hi ijeep,

can't find any asterix in yahoo. can you post an example?

[iJeep]

I just did a simple search for widgets on Yahoo. The next page link has the following URL:
[rd.yahoo.com...]

[iJeep]

I figured it out...

Luckily I installed a program called spybot today that lists out the hosts file and sorts it. I found that rd.yahoo.com was being redirected to 127.0.0.1 on my machine. I don't know why.

After editing the 5 lines that said that out of the hosts file it works.