If the screenshot below looks familiar to you, chances are you are having a problem like me, wherein everytime I login to Kontera to check my stats, or the the sitemeter to see my visitors, I can’t get inside the page and I was always stuck as illustrated below.
GIF Image, 1×1 pixels Mystery
It’s not actually a mystery but I just want to to name it that way. 
If you are encountering this, there is a big possiiblity that your antivirus, or internet security that you are using is preventing the access to this site. In my case I’m using Kaspersky.
To solve this issue you need to modify your content setting security. I’l share you how to do it in Kaspersky Internet Security. For other internet security software, it will work the same way so just figure out how to modify the content filtering, white list the site and that’s it.
Here’s how I resolve the GIF Image, 1×1 pixels Mystery
1. Double click the Kaspersky Internet Security Icon
2. Then go to setting >> content filtering then click the setting buttong beside the “enable banner ad banner”.
3. In the banner ad blocker dialog tab, add the site you want to whitelist. In my case since I want to connect to kontera and sitemeter, i add in the white list the *.kontera.com, and the *sitemeter*.com The * stands for the wild character.
4. Click OK , Apply
That’s it.. the quick guide to fix the GIF Image, 1×1pixels problem.
Dec 9, 2008 at 09:41:08
Thanks for the info. BTW nice blog I never thought that creating a cad blog that doesn’t blog about cad can be possible. After all, a title is only a title. Good work!
Dec 9, 2008 at 19:14:54
hahaha.. nice to see you here Lito. Cad Engineer ka rin pala..
I do have a blog about Cad .. check it out here >> http://www.caddsoftwares.com and its a coincidence we are using the same template
see you around..
Jan 24, 2009 at 16:42:35
Thank you so much for helping me fix this problem!
Saundra
Jan 25, 2009 at 13:46:25
I’m also getting this message when I do a Google Search and try to access web sites. Any suggestions for that problem?
Thank you,
Saundra
Jan 27, 2009 at 22:49:08
Thanks for the note on GIF Image 1×1…it worked after modifying Kaspersky settings. THANKS
Feb 7, 2009 at 01:13:35
THANKS man! u just helped me BIG TIME solve the “GIF Image, 1×1-pixel mystery”. I’m using Kaspersky, too, and that made it a lot easier.
btw, i have a pc in the office that has been attacked by a Surabaya virus (Surabaya in my birthday. Don’t kill me….). Couldn’t remove it. I already tried MBAM but it didn’t help. Tried editing the registry, too, following some advises I found from the internet when I googled “Surabaya virus”. but I couldn’t even get past Start-Run-cnd, the pc auto-shuts. Will u help me pls? THANKS SO MUCH!
Feb 7, 2009 at 01:15:06
sorry, that’s Start-Run-CMD…
Feb 12, 2009 at 05:23:52
@Saundra,
I’l post how to fix it later.. and lets see if that will solve your problem
@NR,
Regarding the Surabaya virus removal let me see what I can do.. I check and will let you know if i found a working solution.