----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Stortz" Subject: Re: [OT:] Adware Aggrevations > useful for blocking ad pages. i go through the log with the site names > resolved, and do a whois on any that are clearly advertising etc. and > then block that whole range of ip numbers. of course new ip numbers do > pop up from time to time, but this does make it easy to block the bulk I got frustrated constantly chasing new IP blocks, so what I did was run squid on the firewall, then put the domain names in the firewall's hosts file, pointing to a webserver on my LAN. Now these things get resolved quickly and I'm not constantly chasing after doubleclick's weeky new IP blocks. It's a little weird because all the banner ads now say "Page Not Found", but it's a lot better than putting up with the junk. --McD -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.