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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Redrobes" data-source="post: 3840877" data-attributes="member: 40793">Obviously you have a modem connection issue to deal with and maybe some hidden apps stealing bandwidth but since the web pages are getting larger with more adverts and stuff in them you should try an advert blocking filter. If you run Firefix then you can get AdBlock plus from here...<a href="http://adblockplus.org/en/installation#release" target="_blank">http://adblockplus.org/en/installation#release</a>It needs a filter script which you can import as a text file. The main part of mine is below (all stuff *between* the >>>>> )>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>[Adblock]/(\W|_)(ms|php|page)*ad(s|img|tech|vertising|farm|form|sremote|bureau|sonar)*\d*(\W|_)//(\W|_)(adimage|adiframe|addyn|banner|masthead|tracking|tracker)(s)*\d*(\W|_)//(\W|_)(atdmt|googlesyndication|mediaplex|scripps|tribalfusion)(\W|_)//(\W|_)(midaddle|falkag|hitfarm|marketbanker|casalemedia)(\W|_)//(\W|_)(clicksor|adroitweb|free-stats|budsinc|clickxchange)(\W|_)//(\W|_)(sageanalyst|imrworldwide|google-analytics|servedbyadbutler|statcounter)(\W|_)//(\W|_)(qksrv|searchfeed|maxserving|adjs.php|awrz.net|serving-sys|hbx.js)(\W|_)//(\W|_)track(ing|er)*(s)*\d*(\W|_)//(\W|_)(fast|double|value)click(\W|_)/>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>As you can tell it blocks a lot of stuff, mainly adverts and banners and stuff like that but really its quite conservative. No doubt there are loads of stuff it ought to block but does not. Its not designed to block much of WotC stuff but that hbx.js is their hitbox tracker which I strip out. Heh heh.Another thing I found is that when Firefox loads up it downloads a lot of stuff from various sites when you have lots of sites in your bookmarks toolbar. I expect that the google bar does similar too but I dont use that.If your on Win2K or XP I would also recommend using zone alarm which pops up the firewall blocker when an unknown app is using your internet connection. The windows one does not do this for some apps dialing out. That can be handy to see when all sorts of stuff like WinAmp, MediaCoder and other stuff nick your bandwidth.Finding root kits is a nightmare naturally. You would need a serial comms analyser to be really sure about that.Edit -- Noticed that there are spaces in the names in some of the items in the adblock entries. They are not in the forum edit box so just ensure that all the entries have no spaces in them. E.g. Tribalfusion is one word.</blockquote>

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