Jan 26 2005

My Adblock configuration

Published by Martin at 7:08 am under Simple Security

I’ve been using the Adblock extension for Firefox for about two weeks now, and it’s been working wonderfully. I haven’t had any problems, but one of my co-workers stated that he’d had several problems with the ESPN site. Apparently ESPN uses the same servers to supply it’s navigational images as it uses for its ad images. I’ve included an export of the Adblock settings I’ve used in the extended entry. You can copy those into a text file and import them into your Adblock setup.

Let me know if you have additional listings that work well for you. My settings seems to block about 95% of the ads out there, but I’m looking to get up to 99%, as long as it doesn’t start negatively impacting my web surfing.


[Adblock]
*/ad/*
*/ads/*
*/click/*
*/fastclick/*
*ADV*
*adlog*
*ads*
*adsdk*
*adserver*
*adtech*
*advertising*
*annone*
*atdmt*
*banners*
*click.*
*doubleclick*
*image.ugo.com*
*m2*
*sob*
*spinbox*
*viewad*
http://us.a1.yimg.com/*
http://http300.edge.ru4.com/smartserve/ad*

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2 Responses to “My Adblock configuration”

  1. # james hudgenson 31 Jan 2005 at 1:09 pm

    http300.edge.ru4

    A friend of mine has his browaser stuck on this site. I did a search on MSN and found this link to your security site. Any info you have would be helpful.

    Respectfully,

    James Hudgens

  2. # Martinon 31 Jan 2005 at 3:31 pm

    James,

    Without knowing much about your friend’s configuration, browser or
    your technical knowledge, here is what I’d suggest. Take it for what
    it’s worth.

    1) If he’s a Windows user, boot into Safe Mode (hit F8 when booting)
    and then install Spybot Search and Destroy. After it’s installed, run
    it while still in safe mode.

    2) Get your friend switched over to Firefox, and never use Internet
    Explorer again.

    3) Install an antivirus if he doesn’t already have one. AVG
    anti-virus is pretty good, it’s what I use.

    4) Install a personal firewall. Outpost Firewall has been working on
    several of my computers for a while.

    Links to these products are available on my blog, in the right hand column.

    Hope this helps. If his computer is too messed up, he may need to
    rebuild it. Make sure your friend isn’t doing any online banking or
    purchases until he gets his computer cleaned. He may have a trojan or
    keystroke capture program running on it in the background.