AdsCleaner 3.1
Block those bothersome adverts when using Internet Explorer

Review Paul Rowlingson

Apr 07, 2004

Install AdsCleaner and you can say goodbye to adverts, whether they be pop-ups, banner ads or those really annoying interstitials.

Once installed, an AdsCleaner icon sits in the System Tray from where its various elements (Popup Killer, Ads Stopper) can be started and stopped.

Much more in-depth control is achieved using the toolbar that gets added to Internet Explorer. This displays information such as the number and size of adverts blocked, and provides access to the program's numerous functions.

Using this toolbar it is possible to take a screen grab of the current web page, activate Flash Killer (for blocking Macromedia Flash content), block images and access AdsCleaner's settings.

AdsCleaner is also an effective privacy cleaner, with a button for cleaning your cache, cookies, history, typed URLs and recent URLs.

It's just a shame it only works with Internet Explorer.

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