Today I want to tell you about a great application for mozilla browsers called NoScript. This application can make your browsing safer by giving you control over what sites use your plugins, provides a great Anti-XSS protection, and can block/disable many annoying banner adds.
What is XSS protection? Cross Site scripting (XSS) can be used to create phishing attcks, fake websites that look real, by exploiting vulnerabilities. You can read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting
This is a free addon that has received many great reviews. I use it and am very pleased. It does takes a little getting used to. For instance, if you are trying to click a link or the page looks weird, remember that you have NoScript enabled. You will have to "allow" the link to work or page to load correctly. This is easy enough though. A right click on the mouse will reveal a NoScript option. You can read more about it and download it for free here:
http://noscript.net/
The function of NoScript is safety. It is not an ad blocker. Blocking adds is just a by product of it not allowing many scripts. If you are looking for somthing that is primaraly for ad blocking I would recomend Adblock Plus. You can add it to firefox with your addon manager or you can find it here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
Once it has installed it will ask you to apply filters, just click cancel and then go to this site to get the filiters directly:
http://easylist.adblockplus.org/
Just click the three packeges and the install is easy. Now, for facebook ads you need to go to this site and just follow the instructions. Its easy and takes 2 sec. You already have the Adblocker Plus instailed so you can skip to step 4.
http://ausbury.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/block-facebook-ads-in-firefox/
There you have it. No more provocitive or annoying adds on your computer. I hope that this was helpful and feel free to leave a comment.
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