Blocking Adverts
Suggestions on Blocking Adverts and Malware While Browsing
The following tips may prove useful in preventing adverts, and other forms of malware from degrading your browsing experience. These tips while useful to everyone, are I feel especially useful to users on slow connections, or when the person surfing needs more protection.
Blocking via hosts/DNS Filtering
One simple idea is to configure a computer’s DNS name to IP resolution so that many well know advertising and “undesirable” servers return an IP address that goes no where, e.g. 127.0.0.1. An easy way to do this is to [continued…]