Ad blocking (Was: Re: [Nottingham] Proxy Default)

[Martin]

David Wolfson wrote:
[...]
> PS since ditching IE and moving to mozilla I've been really impressed
> by the reduction in unwelcome ads without any external tweaking...

...?

That's likely just better defaults in Mozilla and a lack of the MS 
ActiveX/ MS Javascript that are wide open to abuse.

(And there's some good fun current abuse at the moment. MS bags the top 
five spots! See:

http://www.us-cert.gov/current/current_activity.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/28/cert_ditch_explorer/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/30/ie_malware_attack/

Bill Gates should be getting worriedly embarrassed!)

Aside:
The hosts file trick works for Windoze boxes also. Do a 'find' on the 
example host file somewhere in the windows tree and replace/rename as 
appropriate.


>>>> martin at ml1.co.uk 02/07/2004 10:48:15 >>>
[...]
> 
> A quick and dirty way to block most known ad sites is to add this to
>  /etc/hosts:
> 
> # This is an ad blocking hosts file compiled by # Mike
> Skallas(user245(at)hotmail.com) # Available at
> http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html # Copyright 2004. Please do not
> redistribute, use above link. # Free only for Residential use. # Just
> add '127.0.0.9 ADSERVER' to the bottom to continue the list.
> 
> 
> 127.0.0.9       www.doubleclick.net
 > [...]

Good luck,
Martin


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