User Guide - Kaspersky Lab

160 Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0
A list of regular expressions describing the most common advertising banners
has been created by Kaspersky Lab specialists based on a special study and is
bundled with the distribution. Advertising banners matching the expressions on
the list will be blocked by the application unless banner blocking is disabled.
In addition, white and black banner lists may be created to manage whether
banners will be displayed or blocked.
Please note that if a domain mask is included in the disallowed banner list or a
black list, access to the web site root is not blocked.
For example, if truehits.net is included in the list of disallowed banners, access to
http://truehits.net will be allowed while access to http://truehits.net/a.jpg will be
blocked.
12.1.4.1. Configuring the standard banner ad
blocking list
Kaspersky Internet Security includes a list of masks for the most common banner
ads on websites and program interfaces. This list is compiled by Kaspersky Lab
specialists and is updated along with the application databases.
You can select which standard banner ad masks you want to use when using
Anti-Banner. To do so:
1. Open the application settings window and select Firewall under
Protection.
2. Check Enable Anti-Banner under Publicity banners blocking and
click Settings (cf. Figure 46).
3. Open the General tab in the Settings: Banners Blocking dialog (cf.
Figure 57). Anti-Banner will block the banner ad masks on the list. You
can use wildcards anywhere in a banner address.
The list of standard blocked masks cannot be edited. If you do not want to block
a banner covered by a standard mask, uncheck the box next to the mask.
To analyze banner ads that do not match the masks from the standard list, check
Use heuristic analysis methods. Then the application will analyze the
images loaded for signs typical of banner ads. Pursuant to this analysis, the
image might be identified as a banner and blocked.
You can also create your own lists of allowed and blocked banners. You can do
so on the White list and Black list tabs.