Re: adverts - blocking with firewalls

From: George (gbmiller@sy$$$mpatico.ca)
Date: 03/16/02 

From: "George" <gbmiller@sy$$$mpatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 11:52:31 -0500

Be careful with adsubtract. I think you have to be prepared for a bit of
grief to make it work.

When I installed the program almost all of my sites, including my home page
(no adverts) were unobtainable. The only exception was my banking site. I
played around with the options for a while but decided the time involved did
not justify the program. After uninstalling the program I still couldn't
access any of the sites. A few hours of troubleshooting showed that most of
the options in my browser had been changed and I was now trying to access
the internet through a proxy server???. After going back to square one I
reconfigured the browser and now all is well (I hope).

A few years ago I would have spent hours troubleshooting the program.
Nowadays I uninstall programs that don't work and try something that does.

Georgie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Bob" <rck@houston.rr.com>
Newsgroups: comp.security.firewalls
Sent: March 11, 2002 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: adverts - blocking with firewalls

> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 00:57:07 GMT, spaminator@knology.net (Larry W4CSC)
> wrote:
>
> >If you'll look at WW's ACCESS CONTROL in the Options, you'll see you
> >can permit any number of sites you like to bypass WW's controls, sites
> >you trust that don't have spam crap on them. If you list just a
> >partial URL, such as I do with fcc.gov for licensing applications, WW
> >ignores any connection to fcc.gov from filtering in any way.
>
> That is OK, but not what I want - and not what I am able to do with
> AdSubtract Pro.
>
> In general I do not want sites to be able to do popups, so I set that
> globally. There is one site I want to do popups, but I do not want it
> to do animations.
>
> With AdSubtract I can configure what I want and what I do not want on
> a per site basis. With WW it's either Allow Everything or Prohibit
> Everything.
>
>
> Dr. Bob
>
> "You know you are in Hell when you have to make a distinction between
> what is moral and what is legal."
"Dr. Bob" <rck@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3c8d0a47.95279444@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 00:57:07 GMT, spaminator@knology.net (Larry W4CSC)
> wrote:
>
> >If you'll look at WW's ACCESS CONTROL in the Options, you'll see you
> >can permit any number of sites you like to bypass WW's controls, sites
> >you trust that don't have spam crap on them. If you list just a
> >partial URL, such as I do with fcc.gov for licensing applications, WW
> >ignores any connection to fcc.gov from filtering in any way.
>
> That is OK, but not what I want - and not what I am able to do with
> AdSubtract Pro.
>
> In general I do not want sites to be able to do popups, so I set that
> globally. There is one site I want to do popups, but I do not want it
> to do animations.
>
> With AdSubtract I can configure what I want and what I do not want on
> a per site basis. With WW it's either Allow Everything or Prohibit
> Everything.
>
>
> Dr. Bob
>
> "You know you are in Hell when you have to make a distinction between
> what is moral and what is legal."

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