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AdArmor 3.0 - User Guide and FAQ

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Choosing what to block

When you first open the AdArmor window, you'll see three buttons that let you control what is blocked. The first, "Block pop-up ads," will block all pop-up ads if selected (except those from sites you have allowed to display pop-ups, in the Allowed Sites page).

The second, "Block images from advertisers," blocks advertisements directly in web pages. This feature uses the list on the Advertisers page to identify images coming from advertisers and block them. You can use the Advertisers page to allow more ads through, or to block any that you see.

Finally, "Block paid search results" keeps sponsored links from appearing when you search the web with Google, Yahoo, MSN, AllTheWeb, Lycos, AltaVista, AOL and Ask.com. AdArmor constantly updates itself to adapt as search engines change their advertising formats.

Statistics

The statistics portion of the AdArmor window shows you how many in-page advertisement images AdArmor has blocked, and how many popups AdArmor has blocked. Each time an image or popup is blocked, you save the time and bandwidth it would have taken to download that advertisement. The "bytes saved" field estimates how much bandwidth AdArmor has saved you. This number is an estimation because the images and popups were never downloaded, and so AdArmor doesn't know how large they were.

Choosing windows to block

Whatever windows you choose to block will be shut down automatically by AdArmor. For this reason, it's very important that you choose windows to block carefully. If you block Microsoft Word, for example, you won't be able to view or edit any Word documents until you turn the window block off.

With that in mind, you can add a window to block by clicking the "Add" button in the "Window Blocker" page. The window pictured above will appear. In the "Name" box, you can choose any name you wish to describe this window. If you're blocking an annoying nag screen, you could call it "Stop Annoying Nag" for example. The name you choose is displayed in the "Window Blocker" list.

The "Text to match" box is the most important element in the window. Here you must enter all or part of the text that appears in the title of the window you wish to block. So if you're blocking Microsoft Word (for example; not recommended), you would type "Microsoft Word". Please make sure you type something specific; if you type "Microsoft", for example, you would block all Microsoft programs.

In the "Microsoft Word" example, you'd need to check the "Match SOME text" box because Word's titles often include other text. For example, if you open a document called "My Recipes", Word's titlebar will say "My Recipes - Microsoft Word". Checking the "Match SOME text" will cause AdArmor to match the "Microsoft Word" text in the title with your block, and close Word. Please note that the "Match SOME text" setting means that AdBlocker will match some of the text in the title with all of the text in the "Text to match" box.

Finally, you can select the "case-sensitive" box to make the match case-sensitive.

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