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AntiRebate is supported by advertisements from specific stores and merchants. They offer products at considerable savings to our readers because we can drive a high volume of traffic and generate more sales for them. Visitors like you know that they can get these products at a much lower price when they come to AntiRebate.com. It works very similar to a print magazine: Stores and merchants are the advertisers. AntiRebate is the publisher. Visitors to the AntiRebate web site are the readers.

The merchants want to know where their advertising dollars spent are the most effective. Whether it is on AntiRebate.com or on another web site. The only way they can find this out is by the use of web browser cookies. Cookies (also known as "tracking cookies") are just plain text files used by advertisers that tell them you've been to AntiRebate.com and at what time/date. When you buy something from that merchant, they know that their advertisement was effective. Cookies are just text files and are not programs. Text files are just words like what you are reading right now. Text files cannot cause any damage or problems to your computer. Just think of a text file like a Notepad document, and it is harmless.

There are a number of Anti Spyware programs that will block cookies or block complete web sites that conduct the accounting for our advertisers. While use Anti Spyware programs ourselves, we think that a few Anti Spyware programs are much too aggressive in the way that they block everything under the sky. Anti Spyware programs are supposed to eliminate problems with your computer and make your online time less stressful. However, if they block everything, including some of our advertisers' web sites, aren't they creating more headaches for you?

If you click on some of the offer links and it comes up blank, your Anti Spyware program might be blocking a cookie and not allowing our advertiser's web site to come up. Please try the following steps to correct this.

Anti Spyware Settings
Configure your Anti Spyware software to the medium/middle setting. Cookies do not need to be blocked. The middle setting for most Anti Spyware software should be sufficient. If you performed an "immunity" on your system, you will probably need to undo it. An "immunity" is similar to the most aggressive blocking.

Web Browser Settings
Check your web browser settings.
For Internet Explorer:

Click Tools > Internet Options

Click the Security tab

Select the Internet Zone and set it to the Medium-high setting

Click the Privacy tab

Choose the Medium Setting

For Firefox:

Click Tools > Options

Click the Privacy icon

Put a Checkmark on "Accept cookies from sites" and select Keep until: they expire

Clean Your Hosts File
Some programs may have added entries to your hosts file which blocks or redirects certain web sites. These should be removed.

Open "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer" and then navigate to the following folder:

For Windows 95/98/ME: C:\Windows\
For Windows XP: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\
For Windows NT/2000: C:\WinNT\System32\drivers\etc\

Highlight or click the file hosts, press F2 and change the file name from hosts to hosts.bak. Then restart the computer.

For Windows Vista: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\

Highlight or click the file hosts or lmhosts, press F2 and change the file name from hosts to hosts.bak or lmhosts to lmhosts.bak. Then restart the computer. If you get an error while accessing this file, see this page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923947.

For Linux: /etc/hosts
For Mac OS: System Folder: Preferences: Hosts

If you start to have a problem with links on our site again, you may need to change the hosts file one more time. You can delete the hosts.bak file if you no longer need it.

Side Note
Have you seen a documented report of a cookie causing a problem for a computer? If so, please let us know name of the article or report and where you saw or read it.

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