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Use Little Snitch to block AOL AIM client ads
Authored by: momerath on Sep 07, '05 11:52:12AM
you can also add an entry to the firewall to block out connections to aol's ad servers:
sudo ipfw add 100 deny from all to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

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Authored by: ever on Sep 07, '05 07:53:52PM
Did you get this to work? Your syntax caused me an error, so I changed it to...
sudo ipfw add 100 deny all from any to ads.web.aol.com
...which worked in terminal, but doesn't seem to block the aim ads. Hmm.

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Authored by: Puzo on Sep 07, '05 10:59:51PM

you need to enter IP address (numbers) not domain names.
there are several IPs associated with aol ad servers named ads.web.aol.com:
64.12.174.*
152.163.208.*
205.188.165.*



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Authored by: Puzo on Sep 07, '05 11:03:29PM

Just wanted to add: I use Netbarrier's Stop List to block out annoying IPs - works very well.



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