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October 27, 2006

IE-SPYAD: Protection from malware

Although IE-SPYAD has been around for a while, I only just came across it:

IE-SPYAD adds a long list of sites and domains associated with known advertisers, marketers, and crapware pushers to the Restricted sites zone of Internet Explorer. Once you merge this list of sites and domains into the Registry, the web sites for these companies will not be able to use cookies, ActiveX controls, Java applets, or scripting to compromise your privacy or your PC while you surf the Net.

For Firefox, there is the wonderful Adblock, but I hadn't found anything similar for Internet Explorer. IE-SPYAD provides some of the same functionality, although it doesn't block non-flash/java ads. Another approach I've used in the past is to install an ad-blocking hosts file, but I've found that it can causes problems with some sites.

Posted by Jeremy at October 27, 2006 02:18 PM

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