Warning - dodgy software

I was looking for an Ad-Banner blocker for KayEm to use on a game site and came across Ad-Annihilator.

I installed it and ran it. When the trial period ended, I expected to get a message and would have removed it from the system using 'Add/Remove programs'.

No such luck - Once the trial period had ended, I did get a warning message, so off I went to 'Control Panel'' to remove it. Unfortunately not only did I get the Ad-Annihilator message, message, but the sodding thing screwed up the window.

This is what I got whenever I tried to access 'Control Panel' :



It gets worse - The piece of crashed' every window - 'Control Panel', 'My Computer', you name it, it got screwed.

So I edited the registry - no luck. I was about to reinstall Win 98 when I had an idea. I clicked on 'Control Panel' which crashed, leaving the Add-Annihilator message on the screen. I Then clicked on 'My Computer' (without removing the offending message) and lo and behold, it worked. Just as well otherwise I would have been somewhat pissed off at the whole thing.

What a pile of

If you want an AdBlocker for FireFox, get AdBlock (hehe). Then you can set it to Block whole Directories of images. I dont get those pesky ads at the top of ATS anymore.

But if your looking for an AdBlocker for IE, try AdMuncher, works great for a few friends of mine.

Thanks for that, Dreamland - I just loaded Ad-Muncher (I'm using Nescape for a while until I can work out what's up with my copy of Firefox) and now, instead of the crappy ads I get a little message that says 'Ad removed by the Pixy'