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04-04-2010, 06:54 AM
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Ad-Aware was slowing my computers startup and it took a long time to load then to do updates, etc. Dumped it. Does anyone have a good ad blocking alternative? Thanks. |
04-04-2010, 09:00 AM
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04-04-2010, 10:54 AM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | Aside from Firefox with Adblock Plus included, I use these three programs to keep my computer clean:
- Ad-Aware (works fine for me)
- Spybot S&D
- Spyware Blaster
Also, if you use Internet Explorer, here's a (safe) tweak to stop ad servers on that browser: http://pgl.yoyo.org/as/
(Read all the info. The tweak is at "start blocking ads now: four easy steps")
Hope this helps. |
04-04-2010, 03:33 PM
| | | | ccleaner.com is a great little program to clean up your system including a registry checker. |
04-04-2010, 03:52 PM
| | | | Firefox
Ad Block Plus
No-Script
Avast! anti-virus
Spybot S&D
all freeware all update automatically except Spybot, but that is easy to update manually every couple of days
Ad Block and No-Script are excellent.....I don't know how I lived without them before...it makes you realize how much of what comprises a web page is utter crap that has little to do with content. |
04-05-2010, 09:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Waco, TX | | | Superantispyware is one of the best. It seems like not a lot of people know about it.
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04-05-2010, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by sloasdaylight | There are people not using these???
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04-05-2010, 10:25 AM
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Originally Posted by sleepytime There are people not using these??? | LOL hence, doublemyspeed.com  |
04-05-2010, 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by DigMe Superantispyware is one of the best. It seems like not a lot of people know about it.
bc | Yep. Great program. As is Malwarebytes.
I used to use SPybot And Ad-Aware, but both have come to suck, IMO.
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04-05-2010, 02:44 PM
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04-05-2010, 04:42 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Use Firefox and its ad-blocker functions.
Avoid using IE as much as humanly possible.
Run Microsoft Security Essentials. Best program they've brought out in a long time. I've had two network managers recommend it to me over any other antivirus program available.
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04-05-2010, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by RWP ccleaner.com is a great little program to clean up your system including a registry checker. | Be very, very, very careful using that registry cleanup thing.
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04-05-2010, 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by sleepytime There are people not using these??? | NoScript is hard for a lot of people to understand, and it takes a bit of experimentation to see which of about nineteen scripts a site may try to run on you are really needed to get the site to work for you, and which ones are just essentially spyware.
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