Anyone recommend Proxomitron and is this is a good place to get it?

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http://www.spamblocked.com/proxomitron/


SiteAdvisor gives it a green rating and the test of the file is one of the
cleanest loads I've seen:

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/spamblocked.com/downloads/1773181/


or would this provide a better download set of links:

http://www.castlecops.com/t24306-Proxomitron_Downloads.html
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I can recommend it - been using it for some years now.
It's no longer in development though, but there still exists a healthy
user-base who're often helpful when it comes to helping others write
and install filters.

There's a similar program, still in active development, called
Privoxy. I haven't used it myself, but many Proxomitron users have
found it to be as good.

Regards,
 
As Steve H. wrote, Proxomitron is no longer being developed. I used it
for about a year, and I found it to be a good program. I have been using
Privoxy for several years now and I like it a lot. A new version was
released about a year ago.
 
I used it for quite awhile but found it kept interfering with other
programs that connect to the internet, like my antivirus. I got tired
of having to constantly bypass so I finally stopped using it.
 
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I used it for quite awhile but found it kept interfering with other
programs that connect to the internet, like my antivirus. I got tired
of having to constantly bypass so I finally stopped using it.
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They've made the rules files a lot more lenient in the last few months
which would probably resolve this. If you decide to give it another go, do
post a support request if the problems persist - the support and feedback
requests are listened to :-)

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http://www.proactiveservices.co.uk/

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David said:
As Steve H. wrote, Proxomitron is no longer being developed. I used it
for about a year, and I found it to be a good program. I have been using
Privoxy for several years now and I like it a lot. A new version was
released about a year ago.
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Big thumbs up for Privoxy here, as well: Works beautifully on my OS X
and Debian "Sarge."
 
George said:
I used it for quite awhile but found it kept interfering with other
programs that connect to the internet, like my antivirus. I got tired
of having to constantly bypass so I finally stopped using it.
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Which "it" do you mean? There are "its" and there are "its."

I have used Proxomitron for about three years on a Windows ME system,
and I grew very fond of it (Proxo, I mean -- that "it").

Proxo was especially effective at stopping those annoying banners that
blink, leap, vibrate, pulsate, and just won't stop driving us crazy.
With all the many switches (not all well-explained), it's easy to get
carried away and indeed change a setting that will degrade performance.
So, it's a program to use with restraint.

It was very nicely designed. It's a pity that the programmer is no
longer with us (I forgot his name, sorry).
 
Proxo is good, but the developer (Scott Lemmon) died, so there will be
no further development. That said, I've used it and found it to be very
good. Castelcops site is excellent as well.

Someone has taken on the task of creating an open source equivalent of
Proxo called Proximodo. It accepts Proxo lists etc.It's available from
sourceforge. You might want to also check it out. It looks good so far.
 
I use it regularly, it's a very effective and flexible filtering tool. HST
the better browsers (Firefox, Seamonkey, Opera) have now incoprorated a lot
of its features like popup-blocking and selective cookie-acceptance, so it's
not as essential as is used to be. If you're one of those users who
perversely insist on IE, then a webfilter will at least give you some
protection from malicious scripts.

Only proviso is that it's no longer under development, the author having
unfortunately departed this mortal domain. Privoxy -the Linux equivalent, but
with a Windows port- is under active development though when I last looked at
it, it seemed primitive by comparison to Proxomitron. Maybe that's changed.
 
I use it regularly, it's a very effective and flexible filtering tool. HST
the better browsers (Firefox, Seamonkey, Opera) have now incoprorated a lot
of its features like popup-blocking and selective cookie-acceptance, so it's
not as essential as is used to be. If you're one of those users who
perversely insist on IE, then a webfilter will at least give you some
protection from malicious scripts.

Only proviso is that it's no longer under development, the author having
unfortunately departed this mortal domain. Privoxy -the Linux equivalent, but
with a Windows port- is under active development though when I last looked at
it, it seemed primitive by comparison to Proxomitron. Maybe that's changed.
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Some of the earlier posts weren't posted by my news server so I wasn't able
to read them and I see no quoted posts.

I'm on cable but I use Privoxy with XP Pro in conjunction with a router and
a firewall. I'm not a very high tech user but appreciate Privoxy being
there when it sometimes lodges an objection to something I'm attempting to
do.
 
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