Well, i just installed privoxy together with squid+squidguard, and it works well getting rid of those pop-ups especially those adult/porn pop-ups, thanks for the tip.. And i hope squidGuard will have this kind of feature in the near future, Yeah why the heck not Rick...
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Matthews Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:29 AM To: Lightfoot.Michael Cc: Squidguard Mailing List Subject: RE: Getting Rid of Pop-ups > Lightfoot.Michael writes: > > Reading between the lines above I detect a degree of skepticism... I was not doubting the truthfulness of your comments; sorry if I gave you that impression. > Any disbelief should be taken up with the author or by actually > installing the software (as I have here at Comcare and two previous > sites.) :-) Disbelief is not the right word... maybe astonishment, curiosity, wonderment, etc. My statement: "If Ad Zapper can stop pop-ups, then squidGuard can stop pop-ups" was actually the culmination of a thought process, and probably should have been more accurately written as "Well hey, if AZ can do it, SG can do it." (Or maybe it should have been thought and not written.) :) > I am not in any way disparaging squidguard which is the best of the > (free) website filters, but IMAO Ad Zapper is the best of the web > advertising filters (cf Junkbuster and a number of others.) I do plan on spending some time with Ad Zapper, thanks for the tip! Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Lightfoot.Michael > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 9:09 PM > To: Squidguard Mailing List > Subject: RE: Getting Rid of Pop-ups > > > > Lightfoot.Michael writes: > > > > > > Look at the Ad Zapper (http://adzapper.sourceforge.net/) > > which has a > > > popup killer option. Of course running 2 redirectors is a bit of a > > > pain and a memory hog. > > > > Ad Zapper and squidGuard are both redirectors, and they both > > see every url that is requested (but not the content of that url). > > > > If Ad Zapper can stop pop-ups, then squidGuard can stop pop-ups. > > > Reading between the lines above I detect a degree of skepticism - from > the first sentence on the above-quoted web page: > > "This is a redirector for squid that intercepts advertising (banners, > popup windows, flash animations, etc), page counters and some web bugs > (as found)." > > Any disbelief should be taken up with the author or by actually > installing the software (as I have here at Comcare and two previous > sites.) :-) > > I am not in any way disparaging squidguard which is the best of the > (free) website filters, but IMAO Ad Zapper is the best of the web > advertising filters (cf Junkbuster and a number of others.) > > > > > Michael Lightfoot > Unix Consultant > ISG Host Systems > Comcare > +61 2 62750680 > Apologies for the rubbish that follows... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > NOTICE: This e-mail message and attachments may contain confidential > information. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use or > disclose any information in the message or attachments. If received in > error, please notify the sender by return email immediately. Comcare > does not waive any confidentiality or privilege. > > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous contents on SSCR Email Scanner Server, and is believed to be clean. --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.461 / Virus Database: 260 - Release Date: 3/10/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.461 / Virus Database: 260 - Release Date: 3/10/2003 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous contents on SSCR Email Scanner Server, and is believed to be clean.
