I've been on the receiving end of enough spyware over the years, and I had a sudden revelation - why not put the offending servernames (such as the urls for Gator, Xupiter, etc.) into a hosts file referencing localhost, like this...
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 www,xupiter,com
127.0.0.1 www,gator,com
(using periods instead of commas, of course)
This works great for stopping ad banners and a lot of pop-ups, and might just work for unwanted spyware.
Of course, I could be inventing the wheel all over again.
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 www,xupiter,com
127.0.0.1 www,gator,com
(using periods instead of commas, of course)
This works great for stopping ad banners and a lot of pop-ups, and might just work for unwanted spyware.
Of course, I could be inventing the wheel all over again.