banner ad blocking

[JohnD66]

I recently changed AV programs from Kaspersky to Norton/Symantec.

The Norton/Symantec AV doesn't have banner ad blocking, and I'm hoping that
IE8 might have some settings somewhere that minimize these annoying
banner ad programs (they do for pop-ups).

Anybody know of anything?

Thanks

 

[Richard Pounder]

No, IE doesn't.
Replacing your hosts file with the one found here will block most ads:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/. Click "There is no place like 127.0.0.1",
then look for "download".

"JohnD66" <bugger@off.com> wrote in message
news:i7qn50$e6c$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>I recently changed AV programs from Kaspersky to Norton/Symantec.
>
> The Norton/Symantec AV doesn't have banner ad blocking, and I'm hoping
> that
> IE8 might have some settings somewhere that minimize these annoying
> banner ad programs (they do for pop-ups).
>
> Anybody know of anything?
>
> Thanks
>
>

 

[VanguardLH]

JohnD66 wrote:

> I recently changed AV programs from Kaspersky to Norton/Symantec.
>
> The Norton/Symantec AV doesn't have banner ad blocking, and I'm hoping that
> IE8 might have some settings somewhere that minimize these annoying
> banner ad programs (they do for pop-ups).
>
> Anybody know of anything?
>
> Thanks

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newsgroups, why would anyone expect you to review replies here?

See replies to your SAME post that you separately MULTI-posted in other
newsgroups. Now you'll have to remember to which other newsgroups you
multi-posted and go check each of them for replies instead of
maintaining the discussion within a single cross-posted thread.

Learn to cross-post:

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