Freshmeat with M$ Ad?

[Enmity]

Freshmeat
Look at the ads at the left column... Look at the first one.
 

quote:Discover new Microsoft Windows 2003 now!

What the heck is it doing there?

[Zombie9920]

What ad? Oh wait...I block ads. No wonder I can't see it.

[Enmity]

How can you block text ads?   :confused:  

Ohh I get it....you blocked the frames.
Slightly OT:
I forgot how to block ads in Mozilla Firebird. I remember its something about usrcontent.css can anyone give me some help on this subject please
   

[ September 14, 2003: Message edited by: Enmity ]

[Zombie9920]

I don't know how to block ads with Firebird because I've never used it's ad blocking feature.

One of my firewalls(Norton Personal Firewall 2003) is capable of blocking ads and pop-ups for all browsers available to Windows. I also have another pop-up blocker combined with the firewall popup blocker. It is the popup blocker in the Google Toolbar(for IE). The google pop-up blocker does not block the ads that are embedded into a page, it only blocks pop-ups.

I also manually block ad sites and spyware addresses via the HOSTS file. If you use Windows and you want to block most ads and known spyware url's try my hosts file. You don't have to rely on ad-blocking capabilites of a certain browser when you have the IP/URL of the ad sites permanently blocked from your TCP/IP connection.
I also have it set to read-only so no malicious website can modify it.   When a bad site is blocked via the hosts block your computer sends back a fake IP so they can't log your real IP address(my hosts file sends back the IP 127.0.0.0 which is a standard fake IP).  

My HOSTS file is located below(right click the link and save it). If you don't know where HOSTS belongs, it goes in \WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\ .(replace Windows with WINNT if you use Windows 2000). If you don't use Windows the HOSTS file is useless(it contains URL's of sites you want to block that you can add to whatever block list method your OS uses though).

 http://www.ticz.com/homes/users/waltw/HOSTS

[ September 14, 2003: Message edited by: Viper ]

[Enmity]

OMG... you

[Zombie9920]

Yeah because I have no reason to use anything else. IE renders all of the sites that I visit perfectly(and quickly might I add), it doesn't have any website compatibility issues with some of the sites I visit often, it works seemlessly with any visual style I use(no UI oddities), I don't have any ad or pop-up issues with it, I don't have any serious security issues to worry about with it(due to the fact that I know how to administor my box), I like how it is laid out, I think that it is the least painful on the eyes(I hate the navigation icons and the throbber of other browsers), I have a nice and useful little add-in Google toobar for it, I have no issues with any of the plugins I use for it and Acrobat, Word, Frontpage, Outlook, WMP 9, etc. intergrate into it pretty well, etc.

For some reason I just simply don't like Mozilla, Firebird, Netscape or Opera(I have tried all of them). I like IE so I stick with it.  I don't care about tabbed browsing because I'm not to lazy to press ALT+Tab to switch between browser Windows. If I wanted Tabbed browsing I'd probably just use MyIE2.

If you don't believe that I have my IE locked down pretty tight have a look at this.


(The CD ejecting trick doesn't work on my system either).

That is just a small example. I've tried a few sites that exploit the vunerability to where IE can excute a file without user permission. I've also tried a few other exploits.  Anyways, no exploits work on my system due to the fact that I have it locked down so tight. I have very strict ActiveX rules in effect and I have every trace of DCOM+ disabled, etc.

I have it secured pretty well but I still don't lose any functionality of the browser.

In other words, I'm not afraid of security vunerabilities at all. A system is only as good as the administor who sets the system up.      

[ September 14, 2003: Message edited by: Viper ]

[flap]

quote:Originally posted by Viper:
I also manually block ad sites and spyware addresses via the HOSTS file. If you use Windows and you want to block most ads and known spyware url's try my hosts file. You don't have to rely on ad-blocking capabilites of a certain browser when you have the IP/URL of the ad sites permanently blocked from your TCP/IP connection.
I also have it set to read-only so no malicious website can modify it.   When a bad site is blocked via the hosts block your computer sends back a fake IP so they can't log your real IP address(my hosts file sends back the IP 127.0.0.0 which is a standard fake IP).

That's a bit of a hack. Why don't you just block the ips with your firewall?

[ September 14, 2003: Message edited by: flap ]

[hm_murdock]

he did it that way because Captain Kirk is a badass

[Annorax]

what the hell did that have to do with IE being shit?

[Enmity]

Mister leet viper, can you please teach me how you have done so?
I'm very interested      
Oh by the way I'm using Windows 2000 in my dual boot, is it any different?

Ah yes I'd be yearning to know how you locked down your system so tight too

[ September 17, 2003: Message edited by: Enmity ]

[suselinux]

MES

Microsoft Eradication Society!!!

ANTI Microsoft

MS BAD alternatives GOOD!  

Fixes to make MS almost as good as its alternatives (*NIX,Mac) BAD!

GET IT?

[Enmity]

OK