Ad Smasher for Windows

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffJuly 31, 2026

This versatile utility blocks annoying advertisements of various kinds and intelligently controls cookies. Ad Smasher copes with ordinary pop-ups, Flash ads, floating ads, GIF animations, and dialog pop-ups that request you to change your home page. It also squashes Web bugs, those hidden images that track user activity or report the details to third-party sites. Our tests proved it quite effective and handy. You can customize the blocking options for sites you frequently visit. For example, you can allow your mail site's pop-up identification dialog but not its Flash animations. We only wish we could copy settings from one site to another. Cookie management offers much more than simple cleanup or disabling; time and session limits are in effect, as is a Smart Allow feature, which automatically allows cookies when sites prompt for a login and a password. We especially recommend the program for dial-uppers, but it's useful for anyone frustrated by the sprawl of unwanted browser windows.

Ad Smasher for Windows

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GENERAL

Release: April 21, 2005

Latest update: July 31, 2026

Version: 4.1.47

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows XP
Windows 2000

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 200,718

Downloads Last Week: 0

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User Reviews

2.5/5

2 User Votes

It does a very good job of keeping the cookie jar empty
Jubbean2September 12, 2008
Pros
Kills cookies upon detection. You can set it to allow certain cookies only. You can set it to check for cookies upon start up and end. No slow running machine due to cookies.
Cons
None detected yet.
Summary
I like it and will keep it updated on my PC. I had a virus and it was bugger to get rid of so this helps identifies anything trying to write to your hard drive. Great tool.
No service- Embedded Paypal Cookie!!
dionis02February 8, 2006
Pros
Cons
There is a Paypal Cookie embedded in this program. Even after deletion it re-appears every time I open my browser. I have the same problem on two different computers. I contacted Paypal and they have never heard of such a problem. Repeated attempts and I mean repeated, to contact the service dept for this program have received no response! <p>If you want to buy a prgram offered by a company that provides no service to registered users and has a mysterious cookie embedded in the program buy this one, otherwise there are probably better choices.
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Developer’s Description

By PopUpStop.com

Kill pop-ups and cookies, remove Web bugs, and clean your PC.