Recommendations please for best free banner/ad blockers FOR IE

[Clint1]

(Why is there no Software forum here?)

(On XP Pro SP3). I've gotten so fed up with Kaspersky Internet Security that I had to disable it. So I need a replacement for it's banner/ad blocker. That part of it worked great, all you had to do was right click any image, ad or banner on a webpage and "Add to anti-banner". Therefore I'm looking for the best free banner/ad blockers that work just like Kaspersky did with its right click and "Add to anti-banner". Any recommendations please? I do NOT want to install any (SpyWare) "toolbar" that has a banner blocker.

Please, no BS about "just use FireFox" or "just use Chrome", I hate them. I need one for IE.

Also, I'm fully aware of the Hosts file and how it works, but having to find it, change it from "Read only" so I can edit it, open it up in Metapad (or Notepad), then edit it, save it, and having to do all this each time I find a new parasite ad or banner, is entirely out of the question. (Mine already has over 15,000 lines in it ).

Thanks for any program suggestions.

[mark3738]

Hi Clint - You will be pleased there is now a software section, which I agreed with you and voted for.

Regarding your problem I see in your post that you are using XP Pro SP3, so can I assume that you are only using the IE8 browser as I'm sure off the top of my head IE9 doesn't work on XP. I just thought this may be relevant when looking for a replacement for Kapersky's banner/ads blocker. However I'm not much help with suggestions as I generally use Chrome myself and only IE to check my work so don't have popup issues as a rule.

[weegillis]

Your firewall should have some ability to block suspicious images. I know Outpost does, and it works in all browsers. I've been an Outpost fan since around 2001. I use no other products on our machines but the security suite pro version of OP. Uninstall or turn off all the rest, AV, anti-malware, firewall, the works. You won't need them.

Wikipedia link: Outpost Firewall Pro

[Clint1]

Hi Clint - You will be pleased there is now a software section, which I agreed with you and voted for.

Yes, thanks.

I'm using IE6. Please, no comments........long story.

[Clint1]

Your firewall should have some ability to block suspicious images. I know Outpost does, and it works in all browsers. I've been an Outpost fan since around 2001. I use no other products on our machines but the security suite pro version of OP. Uninstall or turn off all the rest, AV, anti-malware, firewall, the works. You won't need them.

Wikipedia link: Outpost Firewall Pro

Is anyone else no longer receiving email notifications for PM's and subscribed threads? WG I sent you a PM yesterday so I don't know if you know about it, but you can ignore it because I sent one to Rah as well and he's looking into it.

Yeah I know a firewall can do that, but that's a pain. I'm using Comodo Internet Security now (CIS, which is also a FW) and like all the others you have to manually open up the interface and create new rules to block banners or ads. (Isn't Outpost like that?) (Plus with CIS, idiotically there's no way of exporting that list in the event of reinstall or format, so the list has to be manually repopulated each time!) That's what I've been doing, manually having to add them, and that's ~a dozen more steps from KIS's most convenient right click any image, ad or banner on a webpage and "Add to anti-banner". See a screenshot of what happens when I right click my avatar. I haven't uninstalled KIS yet so that option is stil in the right click context menu.


Attachment 606


There has got to be something out there that can do this.

BTW, you can move this thread to the Software forum.

Thanks.

[Clint1]

I don't know what's going on what that attachment. ^^ It won't work in FF or Chrome, and at first in IE it was a thumbnail, but now in all 3 browsers all that's there is "Attachment 606", and the link won't work in FF or Chrome.

[Clint1]

Now, the attachment link above doesn't even work in IE! I'm trying this yet again.



RightClickAddToAntiBanner.jpg

[weegillis]

@Clint1 - Outpost blocks ads right out of the box. No settings involved, but you can customize the daylights out of it, if you wish to dial in the numbers. Outpost lets you save your entire configuration, even setup multiple configs, and switch from one to the other on the fly, almost. You can wipe and rebuild your database with one click.

[weegillis]

WG I sent you a PM yesterday so I don't know if you know about it, but you can ignore it because I sent one to Rah as well and he's looking into it.

I did get your PM, and had my internet go down for nearly a day just as I was replying. Unfortunately, when I did get back on, the work had piled up at my door and I didn't get back to that PM, again. Apologies. All the same, you did take it to the right person, as this is what I was going to do next.

[Clint1]

@Clint1 - Outpost blocks ads right out of the box. No settings involved, but you can customize the daylights out of it, if you wish to dial in the numbers. Outpost lets you save your entire configuration, even setup multiple configs, and switch from one to the other on the fly, almost. You can wipe and rebuild your database with one click.

Ok thanks. So what exactly is entailed to block new ads or banners? Is it a one or two-click method or do you have to go into its settings and add it manually?