I donīt see adsense on my computer but can elsewhere.

cannot see adsense on own computer

[scandix]

I have seen others writing about this but the usual tips donīt help me. I have no firewall, have emptied the cache and no Norton internet security and the script is active on the browser (IE6).

I remember when I installed adsense on a page it first seemed to disappear after a day to come back next day and then vice versa. But after ca two days it was gone never to come back.

What can be wrong? If I look on any adsense site including mine through an anonymous site like the-cloak.com I see the adsense.

I read about people having these problems and where they later found out that trojans in their computers was to blame. Why would a trojan have the purpose to disable adsense?

I must see the adsense in order to design my sites.

[netmeg]

Have you looked at it in Firefox? Do you have any add-ins in your IE that might be blocking ads? Can you see adsense on other people's sites?

[netmeg]

Ok, so it looks like you can see it through a proxy server. Have you looked at your hosts file to see if there's anything in there that's redirecting or blocking the AdSense?

C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

[scandix]

Thanks for replying!

I looked in there and there are host files. In some of them I also found google.. syndication.. url files among many others, same adress as in the adsense code that is put in a page where adsense will show so.. What will I do with this? How can I se if anything is redirecting or blocking?

[scandix]

Now I found something!
In the two HOSTS -files I took one of many urls to try, and my browser showed

"
nick 's Scol Services

Commutron "

I have seen that many times and without understanding what it was. Also, I hade a program that has always appeared, called Scol, I never knew what it was.
I changed the name of the two HOSTS-files to gibberisch and then... the site addme.com showed up and on my own site then ... adsense came back! Should I erase these hosts-files?

Anyway, I thank you greatly! I will stay here more on this forum!

[edited by: jatar_k at 2:21 pm (utc) on Oct. 23, 2007]
[edit reason] no urls thanks [/edit]

[silverbytes]

I have same problem and never found solution. I dont see adsense ads in IE7 except in google search. That means that when I use google.com I see ads there, but I can't see others (nor in my sites or other people's sites)

I do, however, in Firefox...

BTW, do you mean you had malware putting garbage in your hosts file?

[encyclo]

The only thing you will find in a default hosts file is an entry for 127.0.0.1 localhost. The rest was placed there by spyware.

Clean up the hosts file, and clean up the viruses and spyware off your machine so it doesn't get overridden again.

[netmeg]

Ok, it sounds like someone or something put something in your hosts file.

A perfectly clean, unchanged hosts file will have a bunch of comments in it (all prefaced by the pound sign (#) and ONE single line:

127.0.0.1 localhost

That's what Windows comes with as installed, and under normal circumstances, there's no reason why that should ever change.

So if your hosts file looks any different, temporarily rename it to hosts.old, and create a new one with just that localhost line it, and see if it solves the problem.

(opps, encyclo slipped in while I was typing this)

As for you, silverbytes - do you by any chance have a plugin installed for your browser called IE7PRO? Because that will take out ads, unless you go into it and turn 'em back on.

[jomaxx]

Even if you fix the hosts file, it still sounds like you will have spyware lurking on your machine. It might even overwrite the hosts file again. You need to run Ad-Aware and/or Windows Defender and remove everything they find.

[celgins]

Like encyclo and netmeg said (and pay particular attention to jomaxx's recommendation), I have seen this happen several times to unsuspecting Adsense users.

The spyware modifies your HOSTS file, so you should take the recommendations to clean it up. You should also take the recommendations to clean up your computer. Anything that will modify your HOSTS file will attempt to modify it again -- unless you clean.

You should at least consider running the Windows XP built-in firewall if you don't plan on purchasing a third-party one.

After that, starting running anti-spyware and anti-adware programs like Ad-Aware and Ewido.

[silverbytes]

I don't have IE7PRO, and I see ads in google.com (I guess if something were blocking, should block those too?