[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by danielf

have you considered using a hosts file It's free, and I find it fairly effective.

Edit: or look here for a version which uses a script so you can use it behind a proxy.

Basically, what it does it 'reroutes' traffic from known ad servers to 127.0.0.1, which is the 'local host' As a result, the ads don't get shown. It's all explained in the above links.

That looks intriguing. Do you use it? What are your thoughts on it?
This bit worried me:

Those of you who use Windows 2000/XP Pro and use the very large version of the Hosts file may experience system slowdowns and slow connections. Most often, this is noticed by those with dialup connections, but may occur with broadband connections as well.

Since I use XP on BB.