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Title: Privoxy - anyone installed it on SME?
Post by: Gary on September 10, 2002, 05:03:48 PM
I use Privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org) at home on my WinXP machine and it does a fine job of removing banner ads,pop ups and other annoying trash. Has anyone installed the Linux version on SME?
There is a specific Red Hat version and installation guide for installing alongside Squid but as I'm a newbie to all this I'm a bit loathe to take the project on for fear of breaking the box in some way.

Would appreciate any thoughts from someone who has / will install it.
Title: Re: Privoxy - anyone installed it on SME?
Post by: Bill Talcott on September 10, 2002, 06:37:00 PM
BannerFilter sounds similar, if you're interested in trying that...

http://www.drbig.co.uk/sdownload/index.php?op=showfiles&catid=22
http://phroggy.com/bannerfilter
Title: Re: Privoxy - anyone installed it on SME?
Post by: Gary on September 10, 2002, 08:16:27 PM
Thanks Bill, will try it out - didn't know that site existed!
Title: Re: Privoxy - anyone installed it on SME?
Post by: Dan Williams on January 29, 2003, 09:10:13 PM
Hi,
I to really want a solution that will kill all of these pop-ups etc before they get to the Win PC's.
Surely there must be someone that has implemented a solution that works?
Dan
Title: Re: Privoxy - anyone installed it on SME?
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on January 30, 2003, 01:15:55 AM
I have installed a program called adzapper, it blocks popups and banner ads, etc, etc from getting past the proxy, very handy for people on dial-up that pay for downloads :-)

The only problem is that it is a redirector for squid, so if you run squidGuard or the like then installation is a bit trickier, but it works.

Cyrus Bharda
Title: Re: Privoxy - anyone installed it on SME?
Post by: Des Dougan on January 30, 2003, 06:52:27 AM
Use Mozilla - it has a configuration option built in which stops pop-ups (and it's a great browser too).

Des Dougan