My Computer is not displaying adsense ads

on any site

[petra]

Is anyone else having the same problem? What do I need to do to fix this?

[vincevincevince]

Certain Norton products, disabling javascript, and refusing cookies have all been reported to affect adsense display.

[petra]

Thanks, unfortunately its none of those, very weird I have no idea why this has happened?

[Dantol]

do you have any ad blockers on your computer?

Hey, check your computer for spyware.
Go to [microsoft.ca ] and download Microsoft's ANTISPYWARE software. Then, scan your computer and remove spyware.

[lammert]

Go to the commandline and type

nslookup pagead2.googlesyndication.com

If you don't see a normal Google IP address and canonical name, the access to the server might be blocked by either something in your hosts file, or a DNS resolution problem.

[petra]

Go to the commandline and type
nslookup pagead2.googlesyndication.com

If you don't see a normal Google IP address and canonical name, the access to the server might be blocked by either something in your hosts file, or a DNS resolution problem.

Hi, did the spyware thing, didn't work and not sure how to perform the above.

One more thing, for some bizzare reason when I try to go to www.adwords.com I get a "This page cannot be displayed sign" As if the adwords server is down.

Any other possibilities?

Thanks

[lammert]

...and not sure how to perform the above.

Assuming you are on a Windows system, you open a Command prompt window. In this window you paste the line nslookup pagead2.googlesyndication.com

The nslookup program searches for the IP address of the Google adserver. Normally it will return three or four IP addresses, but if there is an error message you have probably a DNS configuration problem.

I forgot to ask in my previous post, but are ALL AdSense ads missing--i.e. on your sites, but also on sites from other publishers--or only the ads with your own publishers account?

[petra]

On all sites and all my affiliate ads are x'ed out. But the oddest thing is that I can't access the adwords home page it keeps telling me "This page cannot be displayed"

[lammert]

Looks like spyware.

If you login at Adwords with javascript/cookies disabled there is a polite message telling you to enable javascript/cookies or upgrade the browser.

[petra]

I downlaoded windows spyware and ran a check and removed all spyware but the problem still remains. Do I need to do anything else?

[ann]

have you checked blocked sites in your browser?

Ann

<edit> if you are using IE look under tools then go to internet options and click on the security tab then choose restricted sites and scroll down the list, deleting any that you need to see.

[petra]

Hi,

Thanks to all but I figured it out, my host file seemed to have been hijacked by Spyware that MS did not delete

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

Clicked on host a manually deleted all unwanted items.

Thank you all again :)