ads and junk

davidclayton

i'm probably asking a question that many have asked before,
but i need a anti-ads type thingy, coz norton doesn't seem to block everything.

freeware preferably...
what are people's recommendations?

Serbian

Personally, I would recommend using Mozilla FireFox as your browser and installing the AdBlock Extension.

I think it's the best thing on the net at the moment, and it's completely free!

davidclayton

is it a proper anti-ad plug-in,
and not just an anti-popup google bar type thingy?

BloodBath

It's a different browser to replace internet explorer.

If you want to remove the crap I find spybot to be one of the best.

Simply google "spybot download" for the link.


BloodBath

Cabaal

Do you mean Adblock? (for Mozilla/Firefox)
see sig for link

Serbian

davidclayton wrote:

is it a proper anti-ad plug-in,
and not just an anti-popup google bar type thingy?

It's a proper anti-ad plugin. It basically works by Wildcards. So say ads keep displaying from http://ads.somesite.com/banners/somebanner.gif, you can just add ads.somesite.com/* and it blocks anything that comes from that address. It's really simple to add to it also, you just right-click on it, choose AdBlock Image, then click ok.

You can also get a text file that you can import and it will block the most common ad site URLs. You can look at details about it on the AdBlock Site.

davidclayton

ok that sounds good,
i'll try that and get back to ye.