 What makes Ad Muncher better than other advert removers?
 Ad Muncher has been in constant development for over nine years, and has been used successfully on millions of computer systems around the world. After these years of development and user feedback it has evolved into a rock-solid application with some of the most advanced advert and popup filtering systems currently available.
A quick list of features that differentiate Ad Muncher from many other advert removal products:
- Not just a popup remover, also removing embedded adverts and many other annoyances.
- System-level filtering of adverts in all browsers and most advert-displaying programs.
- Extensive configuration options to tailor Ad Muncher to your needs.
- Extremely fast filtering engine.
- Continuing intensive development, with no end in sight for continually improving Ad Muncher releases.
Don't just take our word for it though, we recommend you to try Ad Muncher for yourself, even compare its effectiveness against any other programs you may be considering. To try Ad Muncher free for 30 days, please visit our download page.
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What do the advert-free pages look like?
Advert images are replaced with "[Munched]" text (which can be changed if desired), this saves the download time of the image and in most cases also results in less space being used by the advert (making the entire page slightly more compact). The overall formatting of each page remains intact otherwise, just without the adverts. Other images/links/elements can be removed or changed also, but for the moment here's a quick example of a popular page loaded with Ad Muncher and the default settings:
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Yahoo: (after)
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Does Ad Muncher contain "spyware", or display its own adverts?
Absolutely not - Ad Muncher does not install any spyware on your system and does not display its own adverts. The only time Ad Muncher will contact our servers is when it is verifying a registration code or retrieving updates, in which case the information sent is only the bare minimum, and is subject to our privacy policy.
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Why does my firewall say Ad Muncher is making "server" and outbound connections?
This is just how Ad Muncher filters your browser's transfers. When your browser tries to connect to a web server, it is instead connected to the local Ad Muncher program (hence why it is creating a listening ("server") connection). Ad Muncher then connects out to the original target of the browser, which accounts for the outbound connections. These connections are perfectly normal and no cause for concern, the listening sockets are of no use to anyone except the programs on your computer trying to connect out.
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Can I link to your site?
All links are very much appreciated! If you would like to link using an image feel free to use any of the below banners. Also keep in mind our partnership program if you would like to be compensated for your efforts.
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How do I uninstall Ad Muncher?
If you have a recent version of Ad Muncher just click the uninstall icon in the Ad Muncher program group in your start menu and follow the prompts. If you have an older version of Ad Muncher installed that does not have an uninstall icon in its program group, instead select "Ad Muncher" from the "Add/Remove programs" dialog in your control panel.
If you installed a very old version of Ad Muncher (v3.0, released around mid 1999), please use the uninstaller in this file instead. Just download it, execute it, then click the uninstall button on the lower left corner.
If you are unsatisfied with Ad Muncher for any reason, please contact us to let us know why.
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Ad Muncher is enabled but I still get popup windows, how can I get rid of them?
Please ensure that the popup removal systems are enabled in Ad Muncher's configuration, do this by clicking the Ad Muncher icon on your taskbar, selecting "Options", then "Popup Removal", and enable each option on the right. Please also be sure to clear your browser's cache before testing again.
If popups persist it is likely that the popups are being generated by a spyware/adware package on your system. In this case we recommend running a scan of your system using a spyware/adware detector like "Spybot SD", as available from here.
Once any spyware/adware packages are removed the popups should stop. If not, please contact us so we can investigate further.
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How do I stop "Messenger Service" popups?
Just click the Ad Muncher icon on your system tray, then click "Options", "Popup Removal" and enable to option to "Prevent messenger service popups from appearing while Ad Muncher is activated". Click "Apply" and the popups should be gone for good. If you notice messenger service popups still getting through after doing this please contact us.
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How do I remove advert X from webpage Y?
The basic explanations are covered in the Ad Muncher help file (which can be opened by selecting your Start Menu/Programs/Ad Muncher/User's Guide), it is also helpful to have a good understanding of the URL Basics and HTML Basics sections in the help file before removing adverts. If you still are not able to remove an advert please contact us.
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Can I configure Ad Muncher to only remove popups?
Indeed you can - just do the following:
- Open the Ad Muncher configuration window.
- Click the "Default Filters" tab.
- Turn off the option to "Use this list".
- Turn on the option to "Still use popup-related entries" (if you're using Ad Muncher v4.5 or later).
- Click on the "Options" tab, then the "Filtering" tab.
- Turn off the option to "Treat all 400-500 by 40-85 pixel, linked images as adverts".
- Turn off the option to "Block retrieval of all incoming 468 by 60 pixel images".
- And of course make sure all the options under the "Popup Removal" tab are enabled.
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How do I remove flash adverts?
Flash adverts can removed the same way that normal image adverts are removed, by using a "remove images/etc with URL" filter entry against the address of the flash file.
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How do I stop a page being filtered?
To stop a page being filtered, just do the following:
- Click the Ad Muncher icon in your system tray to open the configuration window.
- Click the "My Filters" tab
- Click the "New" button.
- Set the category to "No filtering on URL".
- Set the keyword to any part of the site's address, for example, microsoft.com
- Click "Apply" and the new settings should take effect.
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I keep getting "Done, but with errors on page" messages on the status bar in Internet Explorer.
This is just Internet Explorer complaining about how Ad Muncher removes adverts, sometimes it's impossible to remove adverts graciously and more aggressive methods must be used, the pages should still load fine (and without the adverts) and this message is entirely safe to ignore.
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Internet Explorer keeps popping up script error windows...
This is also caused be the above-mentioned problem, however Ad Muncher will normally disable the settings which cause this window to appear (leaving only the warning on the status bar which can be safely ignored) when Ad Muncher is installed. If for some reason the settings have been changed and the warning is displaying again, it can be turned off by disabling the "Always display this message when a page contains errors." checkbox on the window. Or if you are running Internet Explorer version 4 (which can't have its script debugging disabled) try enabling the "Prevent 'script error' warnings" option in Ad Muncher's configuration window (under options/filtering).
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