theFreeDictionary.com pushing DoubleClick

[walter4h]

Hi everybody:
I visited www.thefreedictionary.com
When you do a search for any item, e.g. "DVD", it gives the result, then, as you run a cursor on a page over the search term, it changes its appearance; a small icon of a book is added with letters "dbl-click"

When I had "SpyBot Search and Destroy", it was giving me warnings that a particular site is trying to download a "double-click", which is "A KNOWN THREAT" (emphasis added). It was also offering an option of blocking the download.

Now I do not have SpyBot and I do not get this warning.
Does this mean that my computer gets infected with a double-click adware after visiting sites like thefreedictionary.com

Thx: walter

[BJ_M]

yes

[thecoalman]

You can double click any word where that appears to bring up the definition. Doubleclick to the best of my knowledge only uses cookies for tracking your moves. There's many sites that use their services. The dictionary site isn't serving any doubleclick cookies ...

[Wile_E]

Yeah it's not really an infection. It's just tracking information that they collect. I don't have to worry about any of that stuff. I use Firefox with Adblock, Flashblock, NoScript. My firewall (Outpost Pro) and Avast Anti-virus also takes care of the rest of the junk like referrers,etc. Plus I have an edited HOSTS file that contains entries of most all the bad stuff and reroutes it to a local address(127.0.0.1). I never see any pop-ups, ads, or anything. This is how the internet should be, free and clean.