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AdDelete Help Contents

Version 2.0

Overview

   Introduction

   Getting Started

   Screens Described

      Activity Tab

      Advanced Tab

      Cache Bypass Options Tab

      Filtering Tab

      History Tab

      Options Tab

      Statistics Tab

      Website Restrictions Tab

How to...

   How to configure Netscape to work with AdDelete

   How to configure Opera to work with AdDelete

   How to configure other browsers to work with AdDelete

   Uninstall AdDelete

FAQ

   Common questions

Order and Support

   How to order

   Technical support

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Introduction
AdDelete Introduction	Contents

AdDelete is a solid answer for banning all unwanted advertising and popup windows on the internet. AdDelete's unique processing engine catches ads that others can miss. AdDelete comes in three versions. Personal, Professional, and Enterprise.

Personal/Home Users Fast, Focused Internet information - without distractions. AdDelete speeds up your Web Browsing by filtering out the advertisements which bog down your internet connection and also take up space on your hard drive. AdDelete also takes away those pesky pop-up windows.

Corporate Use Reduction in overall network traffic over internet connection AdDelete will reduce the network traffic over your internet connection blocking hefty advertisements. AdDelete will also operate as a stand-alone HTTP proxy server and can even cascade over your existing HTTP proxy server meaning no client software to install. AdDelete will also provide monitoring on your internet connection providing statistics and extensive details on where people are going, what they are looking at.

ISP's AdDelete benefits you and your customers! AdDelete is available to your customers at volume discounts. When subscribers use AdDelete's unique programming, the demands on your bandwidth are decreased, enabling you to serve more subscribers with your current system. Offer you subscribers this value-added service for less than retail, and increase your bandwidth potential at the same time. Call or email us for more details on either a site license or subscriber re-sale information

Professional Data Analysts - Software Products Division

St. Anthony Main

219 S.E. Main Street, Suite 504

Minneapolis, MN 55414

612-623-9110 voice

612-623-8807 fax

Visit our website at http://www.addelete.com

To contact sales send email to: sales@addelete.com

To contact support send email to support@addelete.com

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Uninstall AdDelete
Uninstall AdDelete	Contents

To uninstall AdDelete click on the START button, select SETTINGS and then CONTROL PANEL.  Double click on Add/Remove programs, find AdDelete in the list of programs installed on your computer and then click REMOVE.

You can also click here to start the uninstall of AdDelete

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Common questions
Common questions	Contents

What is the easiest way to register AdDelete?

 You can purchase AdDelete with a credit card on our website at http://www.addelete.com/order.htm

I do not have a credit card, can I still purchase AdDelete?

 Yes, of course. All the information you need can be found on our website at http://www.addelete.com/order.htm

What is a proxy server?

A proxy server is an application running on a computer that sits between a Web browser and a Web server, and it usually resides on the same network as its user. You may like to think of the proxy server as the Random Access Memory (RAM) and the remote Web server as the hard disk in your PC. Needless to say, the speed of retrieving data from RAM is considerably faster than that from disk. A Proxy server works in a similar fashion. It intercepts all users' requests of Web pages to see if it can fulfill the requests itself without first going directly to the distant Web server. If not, it then forwards the requests to the Web server. Obviously, it can improve performance dramatically by fetching common Web pages from a local computer for our users.

Imagine the case where a lecturer Jack and a student Jill both access the World Wide Web through a proxy server. First Jack requests a Web page from a Web server in Canada, say Page X. The proxy server intercepts the request and checks if it has a copy of this page itself. As it does not possess a copy, it goes to the Web server in Canada to retrieve that page which can be very time-consuming. When the page is received, it delivers to Jack's Web browser and at the same time retains a copy of it for a certain period of time. If some time later, Jill requests the same page. Instead of forwarding the request to the remote server where Page X resides, the proxy server simply returns Page X that it has saved earlier. Not only is it a much faster operation, it is also a cost-effective one.

What are cookies?

Internet "Cookies" can be very important, as well as raise some privacy issues. In a nutshell, cookies are simple text lines of code that a web page stores on your computer. It can use the information to do a number of things including tracking where you go around it's site, discovering where you have been before by reading other cookies set by other websites, and even help you make online purchases.

Just as cookies can pose privacy and security issues, they can solve some as well. For example Hotmail is a popular web based email service that uses cookies in order to know exactly who you are when you log on. It sets the cookie in your "cookie file" when you log on, then deletes it when you log off.

The reason behind why cookies can pose security risks is relatively the same reason as to how they can solve them. By storing what could be considered personal information (like past web sites visited) and other possible information that should be secure (like passwords), cookies enable web sites to view that information.

Again, let's look at Hotmail. If you log on, then either forget to log off, or the browser crashes, etc... the personal information is STILL contained in your cookie file. Hotmail has taken precautions against this information being used against you by encrypting the information stored by the cookie file so that only Hotmail can understand it. That, however, is not a common practice. Many websites that offer to "store your login name and password" do so in a simple cookie. The same thing goes for some sites offering to customize your own page to your needs. That is done by putting cookies on your machine so that every time you visit, the page knows what to display. Any  is able to code their site to gather cookie information.

You do have the option do disable cookies, or be warned every time a cookie is being placed on your system. Doing so can become quite bothersome since almost every site either tries to set a cookie (advertisers ALWAYS try to set a cookie for advertising purposes), or require a cookie be set to explore the web page.

For more information on cookies please see Netscapes website at: http://www.netscape.com/legal_notices/cookies.html

What does AdDelete do about cookies?

Well, AdDeletes view upon cookies is rather simple.  AdDelete will let anyone place a cookie on your computer but when a website wants to view the contents of a cookie AdDelete steps in.  Simply put, if AdDelete believes that the website that is requesting a cookie is a "Internet Advertiser" of some type it will block access to that cookie.

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How to order
How to order AdDelete	Contents

To place your order for AdDelete please see our website at http://www.addelete.com

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How to configure Netscape to work with AdDelete
How to configure Netscape to work with AdDelete	Contents

Select the version of Netscape you are using and follow the steps below:

Netscape Navigator version 3.x

•	Start Netscape as normal and follow these steps

•	Select the Options menu item

•	Select the Network Preferences menu item

•	Select the Proxies tab

•	Next select Manual Proxy Configuration and then click the View button

•	In the HTTP Proxy edit box type ADDELETE then in the Port edit box enter 3128

•	Do NOT change any other settings in this area, click the OK button to save your changes and then the OK button again.

•	Netscape should now function correctly with AdDelete

Netscape Navigator version 4.x through 6.x

•	Start Netscape ad normal and follow these steps

•	Select the Edit menu item

•	Select the Preferences menu item

•	A dialog box will now appear, on the left side click the + sign next to Advanced and then select the Proxies option

•	Next, on the right hand side of this box select the option labeled Manual proxy configuration and then click the View button

•	In the HTTP Proxy edit box type ADDELETE then in the Port edit box enter 3128

•	Do NOT change any other settings in this area, click the OK button to save your changes and then the OK button again.

•	Netscape should now function correctly with AdDelete

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How to configure Opera to work with AdDelete
How to configure Opera to work with AdDelete	Contents

  Start Opera as normal and follow these steps:

•	 Click on the File menu item

•	 Select the Preferences menu item

•	 A dialog box will now appear, on the left menu select the Connections option

•	 Click on the Proxy Servers button on the right side

•	 Another dialog box will now appear, place a check mark next to HTTP and type ADDELETE in the edit box to the right then enter 3128 for the port number.

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How to configure other browsers to work with AdDelete
How to configure other browsers to work with AdDelete	Contents

  To configure a browser not listed in the AdDelete help system follow the steps below.

•	Start your web browser

•	Look in the help file or search the help file for a section called PROXY settings.

•	This setting is typically located under SETTINGS, OPTIONS, Preferences or ADVANCED.

•	Once you find the area where the proxy settings can be defined you will want to enter ADDELETE for the HTTP proxy server and 3128 for the Port number.

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Technical support
AdDelete Technical support	Contents

For technical support please see our website at http://www.addelete.com or email support@addelete.com

Please see Common questions or the How to area before contacting technical support.

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Statistics Overview
Statistics Overview	Contents

Click on an item you would like help with.

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Activity Overview
Activity Overview	Contents

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History Overview
History Overview	Contents

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Advanced Overview
Advanced Overview	Contents

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Filtering Overview
Filtering Overview	Contents

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Options Overview
Options Overview	Contents

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Cache Bypass Overview
Cache Bypass Overview	Contents

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Website Restrictions Overview
Website Restrictions Overview	Contents

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popLinks Analyzed
This is the total number of links analyzed since AdDelete has started.  A link can be defined as an item in a web page that points to something.  For instance, web pages have links embedded in them, pointing to things like pictures and these links tell your web browser where to get these pictures.  You will notice this number climbing rather fast while you are web browsing on the internet.  Some pages can sure have a lot of links on them and AdDelete analyzes everyone of them...


popLinks Blocked
This is the total number of links blocked since AdDelete has started.  A link can be defined as an item in a web page that points to something.  For instance, web pages have links embedded in them, pointing to things like pictures and these links tell your web browser where to get these pictures.  You will notice this number incrementing at different rates depending on how many advertisements are found on each web page.


popCookies Blocked
This is the total number of cookies blocked since AdDelete has started.  AdDelete will allow anyone to place a cookie on your computer but when someone requests that cookie and they happen to be an advertiser thats when AdDelete comes in and blocks their access to it.

For further information on cookies see Common questions


popActive Connections
This is the total number of active connections at this moment.  As you browse the internet you will see this number jump up and down quite frequently.  Your web browser tries to make several connections at once to optimize it's access to the internet.


popAdFiltering Enabled
When ad filtering is enabled, AdDelete is actively removing advertisements from the web pages you go to.  To change this option see the Filtering Tab.


popWebdata Analyzed
This is the total amount of data in kilobytes that AdDelete has analyzed since it was started.  For example 1024 KB would translate into 1 MB or 1 megabyte of information.


popPercentRemoved
This is the percentage of content that contained ads that where removed.  This percentage is for the most part calculated from the links analyzed vs the links blocked.


popCache Used Meter
This is the total amount of web cache in use.  If you find this number approaching 100 percent you are running out of cache and may need to increase the cache size.


popEnable Caching
This will allow you to enable or disable AdDelete's caching engine.  AdDelete takes a different approach to caching web data as it only caches the images and not the actual text content and does do in memory instead of files on your computers hard drive.


popCache Size
This is the maximum amount of physical memory that AdDelete is allowed to use for caching.  This setting is in kilobytes so, for example 1024 KB is equal to 1 MB (megabyte) or 2048 KB is equal to 2 MB of physical memory.


popCache Max Age
This is the maximum age of an item in the cache before it gets removed.  For example if this setting is set to 12 hours an image stored in the cache will be returned to your browser until it ages to 12 hours after that AdDelete will go to the internet and get a new copy of it.


popCache Restore Defaults
This will restore the cache setting options to their original settings.


popClear Cache Btn
This button will clear all images from the cache.  The cache does not get cleared immediately, when AdDelete gets free time to do this it will.  However, it should be less than 1 minute.


popCache hit rate meter
This is the cache hit rate, it can best be described as the amount of cache data returned to your browser from the cache.  This is data that your web browser would normally go to the internet to get,  this is one of the ways AdDelete speeds up your internet browsing.


popActivity Grid
This shows you the current or "live" activity AdDelete is analyzing.


popActivity Pause Button
This button will allow you to pause the activity or take a snapshot of it.  Note: This just pauses the activity grid and not the AdDelete engine in the background.


popHistory grid
This shows you the history of ad content removed.  The date and time, the URL (the location on the internet the banned content was coming from) and the number of times it has been banned since AdDelete has been started or the last time the list was cleared.


popHistory Clear Button
The will clear the history display grid.


popUse Cascading Proxy
Place a check mark here to tell AdDelete to send all of it's web traffic through another proxy server.


popHttpProxy
Enter the IP address or host name of the proxy server you would like AdDelete to use.


popHttpProxyPort
Enter the proxy port you would like AdDelete to use


popHttpProxyApplyBtn
Click the Apply Changes button to activate your proxy changes.


popListenPort
Enter the port you would like AdDelete to listen on.  Use caution when changing this number as other application may be using the port you change it to.


popListenApplyBtn
Click the Apply Changes button to activate the new port number.


popEnable Adv Filtering
Check this option to enable AdDelete's advertisement filtering.


popEnable Cookie Filtering
Check this option to enable AdDelete's cookie filtering.


popEnable popup filtering
Check this option to enable AdDelete's popup window filtering option.


pop Onlyremovepopupslisted below
Select this option to only remove popup windows from selected websites or domains.


pop allpopupsexceptlisted below
Select this option to remove all popup windows from all websites except from websites or domains listed below.


popReffererBlockingMethod
This option will allow you to specify how you want the referrers information blocked.

This option is probably best described if we put it into context. For example: Let's say you are at a particular website and you click on a link that takes you to another website.  The website that you are going to can look at the "referrer" (the website you were previously at) and track who sent you to this website.

•	All - This will block all referrer information, no website will be able to see who sent you to their website.

•	Advertisers - This will block the referrer information if AdDelete detects the referrer as being an "Advertiser".

•	None - This will allow all referrers to pass through AdDelete.

Note: Some websites may not function correctly with this option set to All or Advertisers. If you experience problems with downloading information from some websites you may want to change this option to None.


popOptionsIEAutoconfig
Checking this option will make AdDelete auto configure Internet Explorer 3.x, 4.x, 5.x and 6.x  When AdDelete starts up it will automatically change Internet Explorers proxy settings and when shutdown return them to their previous settings.


popEnableCacheBypass
Check this option to enable AdDelete cache bypass option.  For example if you didn't want a particular website's images cached you can enter the URL in the list.


popCacheByPassList
This is a list of host names or domains you do not want AdDelete to cache images from.  For example: www.addelete.com or addelete.com.


popEnableWebsiteRestrictions
Check this option if you would like to enable website restrictions based on host name or domain name.


poponlyrestrictlisteditems
Select this option to restrict access to the listed host names or domain names.


popallrestrictlisteditems
Select this option to restrict all websites except for host names or domains listed.


Getting Started
Getting Started	Contents

1. Double click on the surfing icon [image] in the system tray, and this dialog box will appear.

2. This is the main AdDelete interface. Notice the tab menu across the top (Statistics, Activity, Options, etc). Simply click on the tab that contains the options you would like to view or change. For a more detailed view of all the tabs click here.

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