Rick, Though I've not tried this, the best thing I've heard to do is to use your hosts file to redirect all those banner ad sites to your local machine. Since the name resolves to localhost and the file won't exist, the ads just won't load.
You can read more about this at this link. http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/spam/adblock.shtml You can obtain a good lists of hosts there or you can do google searchs for more recent files like this one which is as current as december. http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html Hope this helps, -- Kevin White, Linux+, A+
