Get rid of ads?

I am running Xp and i have been using kill pop up but I still have a lot of annoying ads. Can you tell me what ad killer is best? I need one easy to figure out pls!!!

 

This is a very good way of blocking adds as this needs no sh*tware.

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/spam/adblock.shtml

If you do a search you can find larger lists than this, just do a search for ads hosts and you will find sites like this.

http://www.everythingisnt.com/hosts.html # look for the here link
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm # look for the hosts.zip file

Cheers

Dagga

 

Dagga - are you sure that the information given on that first link is correct re: the requirement for proxy configuarion?

 

Correct!

On the first link there is no need to do step 2 (the requirement for proxy configuarion).

If you have a proxy server then blocking ads is a different story.

Cheers

Dagga

 

chalver...

I use a freeware app called AdShield. A very easy program to use...even has it's own forum.

Laters,

 

chalver: Are you trying to block pop-up ads specifically or ads in general? For the latter, probably the most widely recommended program is Lavasoft's Ad-Aware. The latest version is 5.83. I have it, and it works fine with Windows XP.

http://www.lavasoft.nu/index.html

 

chalver, I have been using the shareware utility Ads Gone v4 and I must say that since I installed it I never saw any other popup.

 

Chalver

If you use the hosts file be careful because if it gets to big it will slow down the system . When I say big means like huge before the slow down. Probably referenced on one of the links!

Mike

 

http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2002/2002-12-02.htm
Dear Fred: Let me tell you of a simple way I have come up with
for managing cookies. It may not work for everyone, but it
works for me.
In the Internet Options (Security tab), I set both the
Internet zone and the Trusted Sites zone to Medium security.
Then, in the Internet zone, I disallow cookies that are stored
on the computer, while allowing session cookies. In the
Trusted Sites zone, I allow both. Whenever I run into a site
which needs to store a cookie (like eBay, Amazon, cable TV
listings, etc.) I add that site to the Trusted Sites zone. At
the end of the day, I have on the drive those cookies which I
need to keep, and all others are history.
To make this even easier, I use a small application called
Trust Setter, which puts two buttons in the IE toolbar, Add to
Trusted Sites, and Add to Restricted Sites. Get it from
http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/ScriptRepository/ .

Available by right clicking on the unwanted page .