Anyone use MSN Messenger? If so, you've probably noticed those medium-sized advertisements at the bottom of the contact list. Well, fire up PeerGuardian with "Block HTTP" on, and you won't see any advertisements on your contact list at all!
According to PeerGuardian those advertisements are coming from "Doubleclick," which is also why some Firefox+MSN Messenger users will occasionally have IE Doubleclick cookies pop up in a report after running AdAware or SpyBot: Search & Destroy.
You can leave your "Block HTTP" on, all you have to do is permanently allow the IPs from "Savvis-Sourceforge Split1 Start Range." (That's the name they gave to the IP ranges when visitting Slashdot.)
Open up your Peer Guardian, find the above entry and just right-click "Allow Permanently." You might have to do this twice because I believe there are two different ranges. I'm not sure the reasoning behind it, but I would have to believe it has something to do with advertising.
One word of caution: It seems some pornography sites will not work with "Block HTTP" on... I couldn't imagine why!;)
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Anyone use MSN Messenger? If so, you've probably noticed those medium-sized advertisements at the bottom of the contact list. Well, fire up PeerGuardian with "Block HTTP" on, and you won't see any advertisements on your contact list at all!
According to PeerGuardian those advertisements are coming from "Doubleclick," which is also why some Firefox+MSN Messenger users will occasionally have IE Doubleclick cookies pop up in a report after running AdAware or SpyBot: Search & Destroy.
You can leave your "Block HTTP" on, all you have to do is permanently allow the IPs from "Savvis-Sourceforge Split1 Start Range." (That's the name they gave to the IP ranges when visitting Slashdot.) Open up your Peer Guardian, find the above entry and just right-click "Allow Permanently." You might have to do this twice because I believe there are two different ranges. I'm not sure the reasoning behind it, but I would have to believe it has something to do with advertising. One word of caution: It seems some pornography sites will not work with "Block HTTP" on... I couldn't imagine why! ;)