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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…]

Mozilla Firefox Java

A few people were saying they had trouble getting the Java plugin working in Mozilla Firebird.

Here’s what I did, and it worked. I was using debian unstable.

Mozilla installed using apt-get install mozilla-firefox

  • Download the latest JRE from Sun. At the time of writing, this was version 1.5.0. These instructions assume the use of the “Linux (self-extracting file)” download. It is possible to install from the “Linux RPM (self-extracting file)” download, but you cannot use the instructions on this page. Try the Sun instructions on installing Java and the Sun instructions [continued…]