Protection from advertising in the browser

Advertising companies have long been using the resources of the Internet network for their own purposes. Sometimes the information offered to us from the monitors is useful and interesting. But more often than not, Internet traffic is spent downloading unnecessary banners and advertising links. And if harmless text ads or static images are perceived quite calmly, then bothersome banners offering viewing pornography or recommending to get rich in one click annoy you madly. Especially unpleasant unwanted commercials, when access to the computer has a child who does not fully understand the danger that lies behind such banners.

What are pop-ups?

Pop-ups are a very annoying form of advertising, which forcibly blames your eyes with absolutely unnecessary information. Inexperienced users often click on a cross, which, in theory, would have to remove this muck from the screen. But everything happens exactly the opposite: the user goes to the very link that he tried to avoid. A real X, closing a banner, can be invisible or appear in a minute. Everything is done for the user to click on the link, because it is the frequency of clicks that determines the success and effectiveness of an advertising banner. This deception allows you to promote sites and products in a very annoying way.

To ensure that protection from advertising is effective, users use quite a lot of programs and scripts, more or less successfully blocking unwanted banners and stopping the work of virus links. The most effective methods for blocking unwanted advertising are described below.

Antibanners of general purpose

Ad Muncher is used as the most effective protection against advertising to date. Works with all popular browsers. When immersed in the Internet environment, the program prevents pop-ups, banners and other unwanted advertising on the sites. The most popular features that make Ad Muncher installed are:

- Prohibition of the appearance on monitors of any kinds of advertising images, links and pop-ups;

- elimination of advertising in such software products as Morpheus, PalTalk, ICQ, LimeWire, Bearshare and others;

- significant acceleration of work in Internet applications, instant download of sites due to the blocking of external elements, which, as a rule, are of temporary advertising character;

- blocking unnecessary changes in selected sites, namely - removing hidden items, identifying and blocking malicious scripts, spyware and other unwanted developments of "geniuses" of online advertising;

- a constantly updated filtering system, in the updating of which directly participate users who have already installed Ad Muncher.

More information about this product can be found on the manufacturer's website.

Adguard is a stable anti-banner, very popular among users. This effective anti-adware program works with all popular browsers. Automatically detects pop-up windows and removes them from monitors. This software product is developed on the principle of an antivirus program, therefore requires daily updates. Runs immediately when the computer is turned on. This protection against pop-up ads successfully blocks phishing attacks that steal confidential data, social networking passwords and e-mail. Very well supplements antivirus utilities. This protection against advertising works confidently even on weak computers.

Antibanners for Mozilla Firefox

One of the most popular programs among users of the famous browser with a fox is called NoScript. This extension was invented by the developers of Firefox. It blocks execution of Java Flash Javascript scripts and other potentially threatening components of HTML pages. The user can automatically in the settings allow the application of the script on a particular page. Thus, the user makes "white lists" of those pages on which pop-up advertising is allowed. Another very useful function of the NoScript script is to protect the computer from XSS attacks. This protection against advertising in the browser is one of the most popular Firefox extensions.

Another program for the firefox, which blocks the appearance of pop-ups, is called Adblock Plus. The program is user-configurable. When an unwanted banner appears, the user simply clicks on it with the right mouse button, select the Adblock Plus option, and the advertisement disappears forever from the computer monitor. Also, you can score with asterisk part of the Internet address of unwanted advertising - then any banner that leads to this site is automatically blocked. When you use Adblock Plus for the first time, you can add a subscription to the filter list, and most of the adware will never appear on the monitor.

The official site offers free install the program, which is regularly updated by the developers of Mozilla Firefox.

Antibanners for Opera

Protection from advertising in the Opera browser occurs with Anti-banner for Opera.

This is a free program created by the developers of Opera. Its main functions are as follows:

- the three ways in which protection from pop-up ads on various sites is performed, to the user's choice;

- Ability to create your own filters;

- Increase the speed of downloading files on some file-exchangers;

- Fast download of video and audio files on popular Internet resources.

The use of an anti-banner reduces the use of traffic and speeds up the download of required pages and databases.

Antibanners for Internet Explorer

The program Pop-up Blocker Free was developed for the version of Windows XP and later. Advantages of this plug-in is that you can set protection from advertising using 4 modes of operation: absolute blocking of pop-up banners, deleting advertisements in the list, prohibiting the passage by reference with the keywords in the ad site address, the allowed number of open banners in one period of time . Pop-up Blocker blocks such products as Background sounds, Inline videos, Flash Ads, JAVA Applets. The program is supplemented by all modern means of protecting confidential data, preserving the specified proxy server settings and other useful functions.

Free PopUp Blocker from CleanMyPC is a free popup blocker. After installation, the program shortcut appears on the Internet Explorer browser toolbar, and then this plug-in automatically blocks pop-up ads and ads that are not needed by the user.

Antibanners for the Google Chrome family of browsers

Google Toolbar, in addition to other tools that are interesting to the user, also includes the function of blocking unnecessary sites and banners. An essential drawback of this method of protection is that, together with the blocker, the user has to install a whole list of various options that may not be necessary to work in this browser. But when properly configured, Google Toolbar performs browser security functions "excellent".

Blocking advertising with internal OS resources

Experienced users can block banners and virus advertising by setting Windows OS. Protection of the computer from advertising is possible with the appropriate registry settings, as well as when managing the security policy of this OS. For detailed information on how to protect your browser using Windows internal resources, see the official user support site. Windows developers give detailed instructions on how to put protection against advertising.

System security checks

After selecting and installing a program that protects the browser from pop-up windows, you must restart the computer. A detailed check of the effectiveness of anti-advertising products can be checked on the site-testers programs. If the protection from advertising has confirmed its effectiveness, then you can be sure that pop-ups and annoying information will no longer irritate, and now the user will not be able to prevent anything from resting and working on the Internet.