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How to get rid of advertisements?

  • August 16, 2015 at 5:32 pm

    #100590

    Sometimes, when I am connected to some internet site from my home computer with Internet Explorer, there is an advertisement box placed usually at the top if it that's completely unrelated to the current site. Usually it is some sort of advertisement of another site that I probably was connected to about few days ago. How to remove it? I also have a feeling that this significantly slows down my machine.

    Thanks

  • August 17, 2015 at 12:12 am

    #1820356

    You could try Adblock Plus.

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  • October 14, 2015 at 11:25 am

    #1833305

    One option is to identify the domain name of the site hosting the advertisement and block it by adding an entry in your ..\system32\Drivers\Etc\HOSTS file.

    The following contains more detailed instructions and also pre-compiled lists of malware and pop-up advertiser domains.

    Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File

    http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

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  • October 14, 2015 at 12:40 pm

    #1833320

    Eric M Russell (10/14/2015)

    One option is to identify the domain name of the site hosting the advertisement and block it by adding an entry in your ..\system32\Drivers\Etc\HOSTS file.

    The following contains more detailed instructions and also pre-compiled lists of malware and pop-up advertiser domains.

    Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File

    http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

    Now that's just flat-out wicked cool. What a simplistic approach that makes so much sense. Thank you for this, Eric.

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  • October 14, 2015 at 1:05 pm

    #1833325

    Now, does anyone know how to do the equivalent of this on Android and iPhone?

    Block unwanted advertisements with /etc/hosts file on Linux

    http://www.putorius.net/2012/01/block-unwanted-advertisements-on.html

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