Vibrant media ads in ie8

[VanguardLH]

How do I disable this feature in ie8

It is not a feature. It is Javascript coded into the web page. If you
want to block Intellitext ads in web pages, you need to block the source
for their content. You could use an MVP hosts file. Or add several
Intellitext source domains to a URL blocker, like in your anti-virus'
web guard which might have a URL block, or in a 3rd party firewall that
includes URL filtering, or by figuring out how to always enable the
InPrivate Filter in IE8 and then import an .xml file that lists the URL
substrings to block 3rd party content in web pages (I won't bother
describing that process here because it is not well known and
Microsoft's own help pages conflict with their examples regarding how to
implement their regular expressions). There are lots of ad blockers and
many will block this inline popup Javascripted advertising scheme.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellitext

[MickeyNew]

How do I disable this feature in ie8

Disabling Ads
Windows users can disable IntelliTXT ads system wide by adding the following
entries to their hosts file:

127.0.0.1 intellitxt.com
127.0.0.1 vibrantmedia.com

Alternatively, IE users can simply add the following to their restricted
sites list. In IE, navigate to Tools, Internet Options on the menu, then
select the Security Tab, select Restricted Sites, click 'Sites' button and
add the following and reload your pages:

*.intellitxt.com
*.vibrantmedia.com

I used the second method

[VanguardLH]

Post by MickeyNew

How do I disable this feature in ie8

Disabling Ads
Windows users can disable IntelliTXT ads system wide by adding the following
127.0.0.1 intellitxt.com
127.0.0.1 vibrantmedia.com

Won't work. The hosts file specifies *hosts*, not domains. Each entry must
specify a host name, like adserver.intellitxt.com. That is why pre-compiled
hosts files, like the MVP hosts file, has thousands of entries because
*hosts* must be specified. The last time I checked, there were over 50
entries for Doubleclick alone.

You don't specify domains in a hosts file. You specify *hosts* in a hosts
file.

Post by MickeyNew
Alternatively, IE users can simply add the following to their restricted
sites list. In IE, navigate to Tools, Internet Options on the menu, then
select the Security Tab, select Restricted Sites, click 'Sites' button and
*.intellitxt.com
*.vibrantmedia.com

The Restricted Sites security zone does NOT block you from visiting a web
site or receiving content from there when channeled through another site.
As such, it will NOT block any content delivered through another site (i.e.,
ads in a web site that come from these unwanted domains). The security
zones don't block any sites. The Restricted Sites security zone neuters
what type of behavior the content can exhibit from a domain, not that
content comes from there.

You will need to get something that actually *blocks* any content from that
domain whether you attempt to visit there directly or its content is
channeled through another site (i.e., as ads at some other site). Some
firewalls have a URL blocking where you can specify strings in URLs that it
will block any content that comes from a matching URL. Some anti-virus
programs include a URL blocking feature. You can get add-ons to your web
browser that blocks by URL substrings. You can elect to move away from your
ISP's DNS server and use a different one that includes a URL blocking
feature, like OpenDNS (but it will only block when a DNS request is made
which means you are specifying an IP name that needs to get converted to an
IP address - but that limitation also usually applies to all URL blockers).

[VanguardLH]

How do I disable this feature in ie8

Intellitext content requires support of scripting. You could disable
scripting in your web browser but then you lose a lot of functionality at
most the sites that you visit, and some sites are unusable without scripting
support.

Vibrant Media is not a "feature" of IE8. It is Javascript within the web
page. When you hover your mouse over a trigger object, script runs that
looks through a lookup table to present content (often ads) that is relevant
to the text for that trigger object.

You could bitch to the site owner that Intellitext ads are so nuisancesome
that you will no longer visit their site and lambaste their site to other
potential visitors. You could disable scripting in your web browser but
that means you punish yourself at many sites because of the behavior at one
asshole site. You could see my reply to Drill's reply about adding some
product or service that adds URL blocking.