[WEB4LIB] Re: Blocking banner ads

[Robin Zalben]

The best ad blocker I know of is WebWasher. http://www.webwasher.com/

Free and very very easy to install.

Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Hellman [mailto:eric at openly.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 10:49 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Blocking banner ads


Read all about it:

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/%7Eatman/spam/adblock.shtml

What you're doing is fooling your computer's networking software to 
think that these major ad serving sites are located on your computer.

At 8:18 AM -0700 8/10/00, John Williams wrote:
>A recent article in Linux Journal described a method of blocking banner ads
by
>replacing them with a local file - the Apache URL renaming function was
used.
>
>Does anyone know of any Windows95/98/NT software that can perform a similar
>service?
>
>
>John Williams
>Bologna, Italy