free ad blocker/remover

catford

can any one recommend a really good FREE ad blocker/remover. there are so many to choose from but i just want to stop ads&pop ups,so i'll rely on forum members experience!!!

digp

next best to free is the rather inexpensive admuncher (at https://www.admuncher.com) get the current beta [4.7] and be amazed at how it rips out text and graphical adverts!

bbb_uk

I've found SP2 on WinXP does a good job of blocking ad's/Pop-ups

squeaky

But is not a very good firewall though.

The windows firewall is one way. It only stops incoming.

So if spyware finds its way past - and you know some will... it is then free to "phone home" with all your personal details etc.

You need a two way firewall such as Zone Alarm or Norton along with your ad-blockers.

salli9

Will MOZILLA run ok with Norton?????

squeaky

Should do. Their site will tell you somewhere, I'm sure.

Rex_Mundi

Will MOZILLA run ok with Norton?????

No problems whatsoever. I use both with no conflicts at all.

bbb_uk

squeaky wrote:

But is not a very good firewall though.
The windows firewall is one way. It only stops incoming

My apologies I wasn't very clear in my last post. I wasn't referring to XP's firewall, I agree its useless. As they only wanted a way of stopping ads, etc I was referring to using IE6 as normal with SP2 installed. IE6 with SP2 has a pop-up (ad) blocker. Not the best but its free and I don't have any issues with it and it has stopped all the ads I used to get.

squeaky

No problem. I was thinking as much of all those people who think their XP SP2 firewall is safe.

Personally I use Zone Alarm and having seen it in action I bought it. That got me a free anti virus program which auto updates and so stays on the ball.

For Ad blocking I use Ad-Watch and again, having tried the free version, I bought it. That came with a pop-up blocker and again updates are frequent.

Microsoft only updates every now and then - MILES too late for most things.

bbb_uk

As IE6 (with SP2) blocks ads it also manages to block those sites that try and install spyware/adware automatically on our machines.

I also use ZA and use NOD32 for my anti-virus as its lot quicker and has detected more "in the wild" viruses than the likes of Norton AntiVirus. Having read a lot of reviews about anti-virus software the one thing that lets NOD32 down is that it doesn't have the big name backing behind it like Symantec.

squeaky

Yeah. I sat on a couple of microsoft support groups for a while. The two firewalls that got the most good mentions while I was there were Norton and Zone Alarm.

I heard fewer people swear at Zone Alarm than at Norton, so that's the one I picked. Never been sorry I did.

Those groups are also the reason why I have Ad-Watch and SpyBot Search & Destroy and Spyware Blaster.

I don't rely on Microsoft for anything in the way of real security. Very little in the way of spyware gets in through that lot - and none of it gets the chance to "phone home"