Re: pop/ad blocking

For Windows users (at least), it's possible to block known ad/spyware sites
by installing (or modifying) the hosts
file to point to your own machine rather than the actual ad/spyware site
whenever a web page tries to link to them.

Instructions, and a downloadable "blacklist" hosts file can be found at:

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Of course, this means that you are trusting the compiler of the "blacklist"
in terms of what sites are
disabled. (and standard disclaimers apply!)

Al Stangenberger

At 12:53 PM 2/4/04 -0800, Gordon Vrdoljak wrote:
>Hello,
>After having to run too many ad/spyware removal tools, I was considering
>either blocking them through our firewall or setting up utilities on each
>desktop system in our lab. I've not decided which, but I was thinking...
>has anyone thought about blocking them directly at the university
>level? Instead of ads, from outside, the university can leave them blank
>or place its own messages in its place. It would reduce traffic on the
>network outside campus and save the university some money and
>bandwidth. Alternatively, they could enable ads, but only if the ad
>company gave the university a fee/donation for advertising on the campus
>network.
>
>By the way, what ad/spyware tools is everyone using? I've been using:
>spybot
>adaware
>12GhostsPopupKiller (testing this one out).
>
>not tried but thinking about...
>alto block all
>WinSettings
>Sopzilla
>EmeraldPopStop
>NoAds
>
>
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