Will SuperAd Blocker not going to be updated by their company in future ??

[Ashwin]

Perhaps they are feeling pressure from somewhere and thus they haven't been putting much of their resources into that app (wearing my Conspiracy Hat)

Or perhaps, they are feeling the financial crunch too and are simply putting most of their available resources into SAS.

One form of ad-blocking is to use a host file like the one from MVP Hosts. As soon as I tried it out a whole lot of "stuff" stopped appearing on pages... like the ads in the top right hand corner of CNET download pages: just shows a message that "such and such" address can't be found... and the address is always related to some sort of advertising domain.

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Nice list!

Flash Block is nice.

Be careful with No-Script... it can cause some pages not to even load if you aren't selective in the settings.

A non-computer-savy friend complained about her web e-mail no longer working after her paranoid brother "tweaked" her machine. A couple of questions revealed he installed No-Script and applied rather severe restrictions. Told her just to disable it and then... she was happy again.

Yes No-script can be troublesome too. Especially with blogs that use a java based comment system, (like Disqus) but it has its uses

My uncle got a rogue AV pop-up on a website and it wouldn't allow him to close the window, he used the Task manager to end FF.

But when I tried accessing the page No-script prevented the script from running


BTW Super AdBlocker isn't free.

Anyone using any other pop-up/ad blocker? Just curious

[jelson]

Yes No-script can be troublesome too. Especially with blogs that use a java based comment system, (like Disqus) but it has its uses

My uncle got a rogue AV pop-up on a website and it wouldn't allow him to close the window, he used the Task manager to end FF.

But when I tried accessing the page No-script prevented the script from running

Excellent, so what sort of configuration parameters do you use for No-script? I like the idea of its protection, but am unsure of how to use it effectively against "bad" scripts without causing problems. Sounds like there's a good blog post in this.

[Ashwin]

Excellent, so what sort of configuration parameters do you use for No-script? I like the idea of its protection, but am unsure of how to use it effectively against "bad" scripts without causing problems. Sounds like there's a good blog post in this.

Well, I don't allow scripts for every site I visit. Only the ones that I frequently visit.

I also use WOT to see if a site is safe or see the comments by users. Many sites have annoying pop-ups

As for blocking scripts, just right click on the page you are viewing and see the list of scripts, if anything looks suspicious you can do a google search to confirm if it is malicious and block it