Instructions for killing Hotmail ads in Firefox ("adsadclient31.dll")

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

If you use hotmail...and if you use Firefox...you may have noticed a prompt for the file "adsadclient31.dll"...

This is the file that Hotmail uses to feed you ads.

Folow these instructions and you will no longer get this prompt:

(THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS COURTESY OF "sillydog.org" and the thread "Hotmail tries to download ADSAdClient31.dll. in Firefox" (http://sillydog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=55431)

1. Download and install the free Adblock plug-in for Firefox from here:

https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Windows&id=10

2. Restart Firefox

then...

3. Tools / Extensions / Adblock

Right-click then choose Options

4. Click in New filter and type:

http://rad.msn.com/adsadclient31.dll

You can then read Hotmail without the MS prompts.

[cprise]

1. Nice trick

Personally I stopped using Hotmail back in 1998 (when they were bought-out).

Here are a couple of my favorites:

http://fastmail.fm (also operates as yepmail.net and others)

http://mail.yahoo.com

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. Will this work for other contaminants?

I have something called Aurora that hitched onto firefox, somehow.
What a nasty little beast.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. You have to be able to identify the source to block it.

If you are being fed something from a URL, you can block that URL. If you don't know where the content's coming from, it's a problem.

There is a plug-in that UNFORTUNATELY only works with Internet Explorer called "Super AdBlocker." It blocks ALL of the MISERABLE text ads on MSNBC from "Travel Zoo"...but I haven't found a way to to that yet in Firefox with AdBlock.

So the first thing you want to do is Google Aurora and find that URL.

If it's spyware or adware, you may need to run AdAware or SpyBot.

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. Thanks, Bush_; I'll work on it !

[cprise]

4. Aurora has hitched to Windows

...and you are running Firefox in Windows.

[DrDebug]

6. You can also blacklist the advertisement companies

http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/

It'll kill them all from all browsers, IM software etc. etc.