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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (60744)	6/5/1999 11:12:00 AM
From: BGR	Respond to of 164684

Sarmad, I believe it was shareware downloaded off the Web. My wife installed it ... have to ask her. -BGR.

To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (60744)	6/5/1999 4:59:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

> Really! I would like to use that. I was thinking of writing a plugin that > would block all packets from the doubleclick site. It is quite easy. Blocking ads from doubelclick is trivial, you simply set up a tiny (1k) proxy server on your machine that automatically ignores any HTML that requests data from doubleclick.net/*. There are several good ad filters out there, and they work perfectly. @Guard was recently bought by RealNetworks and is a commercial product, and Intermute, while shareware, is also excellent. @Guard was the single most popular download-for-sale program as tracked by CNET for the last 3 months. Don't think the big guys arent noticing. There are even webpages that install this software via active-x, so it literally takes ONE CLICK for the user to start using such software.