Include an Ad-Blocker please

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[666]

+1 for an a blocker.

Leaving it to the browser is not an option for people who use more than one browser. Who wants to fill two blacklists when one will do?

As for the "why punish advertisers" comment: that decision is up to the end user, and nobody else.

[doggydog]

No doubt. Adblocking is a must.

I used firewalls only with adblocking feature (Outpost, AllegroSurf). This is not a job of a browser definitely. People have more browsers on one machine and then milion programs that can possibly show ads. You can't do the job only when you have separate adblocker tool running on all connections or firewall. This way you need to configure just one adblocker and everything is fine. You will avoid even popus and ads in some silly addriven applications. By the way, talking about efficiency of integrated browser adblocking feature would be waste of time. The efficiency is almost zero. By filtering ads you improve user experience and save traffic. Let's incorporate it to firewall. It's so easy. We just need a list of strings to do it. One more window. And someone who can create and possibly maintain the list (although it doesn't need to be updated as malware list).

[doggydog]

If have Outpost running for couple of weeks. Today I realised that the ads are shown everywhere, stupid animations, flashes and stuff you know what I mean.. I didn't see this for 10 years. I was like "sjit, the Comodo doesn't have adblocker!". I have to find another firewall again:( I had Outpost before.
I definitely don't want 10 tools running. I want firewall to do this:
- firewalling (something like Firewall+, but more transparent)
- defending system (something like Defense+, but less annoying)
- adblocking
- antimalware (something like BOClean but incorporated to firewall! and protection against viruses!)
- tunnelling (mapping conections etc., ok this is too much, but why not, should be easy for firewall)

[00hmh]

Well, I read all your posts, so, I would ask a big favor, anyone can recommend me a free ad-blocker??? some product that blocks not only pop ups ad but also ads from the pages in itself???

Thanks in advance

I have used the free Proxomitron for many years.  It's a little geeky to tweak, but out of the box it does a good job.  Extremely easy to install/uninstall, and you can add sites to a whitelist or blacklist, if default rules interfere with some feature of the site you deem useful.   

On the main thrust of this thread, I am incliined to either recommend a Proxo settings file for user and informally support Proxo before reinventing the wheel. 

[3xist]

To go with the others.

Use Firefox. Use Adblock Plus & The G Set Updater. You will be sweet!

Cheers,
Josh

[DarkButterfly]

To go with the others.

Use Firefox. Use Adblock Plus & The G Set Updater. You will be sweet!

Cheers,
Josh

Yes, but I'm guessing the general purpose would be CFP to have it built-in.

I thought of something like. A feature alike SpywareBlaster that blocks activex and other contents, and Spybot's Immunizer.

Yes, ok we got spyware blaster and we got spybot. But wouldnt be great to have all that in a great security application such as CFP? I believe it would be.

It would be quite something to have 98% of our security in one application - CFP.

[doktornotor]

It would be quite something to have 98% of our security in one application - CFP.

Errr.... can we pretty please avoid nortonization of this great product? 

[DarkButterfly]

Errr.... can we pretty please avoid nortonization of this great product? 

I apologize, but I don't follow your thinking. Where, exactly, did I say that CFP would be great if it was alike Symantec's products?

I only mentioned it would be great to see more protection on CFP, and even enhance the protection already provided.

If it is not something to have in consideration (adding more features), then it sure ought to be to improve the protection already provided by CFP, specially Defense+.

[doktornotor]

I apologize, but I don't follow your thinking. Where, exactly, did I say that CFP would be great if it was alike Symantec's products?

I only mentioned it would be great to see more protection on CFP, and even enhance the protection already provided.

I don't see any danger whatsoever in advertisements... Blocking ads is not a firewalls' job, it's a job for browser plugin/http proxy or whatnot... There's tons of specialized (and free) products that do this for you.

[DarkButterfly]

I don't see any danger whatsoever in advertisements... Blocking ads is not a firewalls' job, it's a job for browser plugin/http proxy or whatnot... There's tons of specialized (and free) products that do this for you.

Yes, and I said it would be great to see it in CFP, for that would mean people would have the need to add plugins/proxies and so on.

Yes there are free / paid products that do that. I mentioned 2 that are free. But we are not talking about other free or paid products. We are talking about features we would like to see in CFP. If they will become part or not, its Comodo's Group decision. We just make suggestions.

[3xist]

Yes, and I said it would be great to see it in CFP, for that would mean people would have the need to add plugins/proxies and so on.

Yes there are free / paid products that do that. I mentioned 2 that are free. But we are not talking about other free or paid products. We are talking about features we would like to see in CFP. If they will become part or not, its Comodo's Group decision. We just make suggestions.

The Ad-Blocker can contribute to CIS (Comodo Internet Security), Which is hopefully expected at the end of this month (Very soon).


First of CIS will just be full-blown CAV 3 & CFP (Including Defense+). However, as time goes on more comodo products will be integrated, I will create a "wish-list" for the CIS Board and you can post the Ad-Blocker there, Sounds more "Security Suite" alike. Maybe they will make a stand a lone one too...

Just a first thought.

Cheers,
Josh

[DarkButterfly]

The Ad-Blocker can contribute to CIS (Comodo Internet Security), Which is hopefully expected at the end of this month (Very soon).


First of CIS will just be full-blown CAV 3 & CFP (Including Defense+). However, as time goes on more comodo products will be integrated, I will create a "wish-list" for the CIS Board and you can post the Ad-Blocker there, Sounds more "Security Suite" alike. Maybe they will make a stand a lone one too...

Just a first thought.

Cheers,
Josh

Yes, that's also a great option. 

Best regards

[tetsuo55]

What melih said sounds good.

I have been waiting for an IP blocker a long time.

There are free/comminuty ip blocklists available (iblocklist.com)

The feature in comodo should basically work like a combinaton of hosts, peerguardian/protowall and adblock plus.

The needed features are:
-Ability to add and remove lists-
-A custom whitelist/blacklist
-Enable/Disable on a list to list basis
-Allow or block HTTP on a per list basis

If you go to that site there are several lists that comodo should be blocking anyway (global DROP list)

[sukarof]

I was a Comodo user in the early days and I loved the simplicity in it.
If you want to block ads the easiest way is to use hostsman a software that updates your hosts file with virtually all ad servers, well maybe not all but you wont see a ad after you done that. Ime the surfing is faster than with adblock for example when using hostsfile to take the ads away.

[Data]

I was a Comodo user in the early days and I loved the simplicity in it.
If you want to block ads the easiest way is to use hostsman a software that updates your hosts file with virtually all ad servers, well maybe not all but you wont see a ad after you done that. Ime the surfing is faster than with adblock for example when using hostsfile to take the ads away.

Agreed. 

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