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62 Blocking Internet advertisements Use the Ad Trashcan See "Keeping current with LiveUpdate" on page 49. See "Enable or disable Ad Blocking" on page 34. Greetings from the Uninvited Ads company Your browser displays the text Greetings from the Uninvited Ads company on the screen. Then it connects to www.uninvitedads.com and requests a file called /nifty_images/image7.gif. (The suffix .gif indicates that this is a Graphics Interchange Format file, a common image file format.) The computer at www.uninvitedads.com sends the file to the browser, which displays the image. When Ad Blocking is enabled and you connect to a Web site, it scans Web pages and compares their contents to two lists: 1 A default list of ads that Ad Blocking blocks automatically. Use LiveUpdate to keep the list of blocked ads current. 1 A list that you create as you block specific ads. You can add to and change this list. If the page includes files from a blocked domain, Ad Blocking removes the link and downloads the rest of the page. Use the Ad Trashcan As you use the Internet, you may find ads that are not included on the default Ad Blocking list. You can use the Ad Trashcan to add these to your personal list of blocked ads. To use the Ad Trashcan 1 Open your Web browser and view the page containing the advertisement that you want to block. 2 Open Norton AntiSpam. 3 In the main window, double-click Ad Blocking. 4 In the Ad Blocking window, ensure that Enable Ad Blocking is checked.

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Blocking Internet advertisements
Use the Ad Trashcan
62
<p>Greetings from the Uninvited Ads company<img
image7.gif">
Your browser displays the text Greetings from the
Uninvited Ads company on the screen. Then it connects
to www.uninvitedads.com and requests a file called
/nifty_images/image7.gif. (The suffix .gif indicates that
this is a Graphics Interchange Format file, a common
image file format.) The computer at
www.uninvitedads.com sends the file to the browser,
which displays the image.
When Ad Blocking is enabled and you connect to a Web
site, it scans Web pages and compares their contents to
two lists:
See
“Keeping
current with
LiveUpdate”
on
page 49.
1
A default list of ads that Ad Blocking blocks
automatically. Use LiveUpdate to keep the list of
blocked ads current.
1
A list that you create as you block specific ads. You
can add to and change this list.
See
“Enable or
disable Ad
Blocking”
on
page 34.
If the page includes files from a blocked
domain
, Ad
Blocking removes the link and downloads the rest of the
page.
Use the Ad Trashcan
As you use the Internet, you may find ads that are not
included on the default Ad Blocking list. You can use the
Ad Trashcan to add these to your personal list of blocked
ads.
To use the Ad Trashcan
1
Open your Web browser and view the page containing
the advertisement that you want to block.
2
Open Norton AntiSpam.
3
In the main window, double-click
Ad Blocking
.
4
In the Ad Blocking window, ensure that Enable Ad
Blocking is checked.