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What Is Web Bug Swatter
Web Bugs are little tiny images websites include in their pages. They load a picture from another website, which allows the other website to set a cookie on your computer. Usually these pictures are tiny; either invisible or as big as the period at the end of this sentence. So you don't see them.

They are most commonly used to track you as you visit a website or for other advertising reasons. Geek Superhero's Bug Swatter can automatically remove these Web Bugs from webpages as you surf the Internet.

It will display a little note at the bottom of the page saying how many bugs it removed from the page and also shows a list of them. You can hold the mouse over the bug numbers to see the address in the Status bar at the bottom of the browser's window. You can turn the bugs blocked details off, but you do have to Buy Geek Superhero to do it.

Geek Superhero can also play a sound for any page where it blocks Web Bugs.

Adding the Button: You can add a Bug Swatter button to your Internet Explorer toolbar. This lets you easily allow or block web bugs for each website. When you click that button, it will show a menu to allow/block web bugs for the website you're viewing. (Mostly you won't want to, but there seem to be a few websites that do need the web bugs.)

To add the button, Right click the toolbar in Internet Explorer and pick "Customize..." from the menu (like the menu shown to the right.) Or pick the View->Toolbars->Customize... menu item in the main menu for Internet Explorer.

When the "Customize Toolbar" window shows, just scroll down on the left side until you find the "Bug Swatter Options" item. Pick it, then click the Add button in the middle. You can use the other choices to move that button around if you wish.