Serenity Ad Blocker

Serenity Ad Blocker is a free ad blocker designed to prevent banners, cookies, blinking text, looping GIF animations, referrer strings, script ads, automatic window resizing, JavaScript, and other adware elements when browsing the Internet.

It offers support for SOCKS4 and SOCKS5, and it can get integrated with Internet Explorer and Netscape. The tool runs in the systray after installation and can be instructed to autorun at every Windows startup until told otherwise.

It's possible to disable the ad blocker without exiting the tool, edit the list with blocked and allowed websites in your default text editor, reload the lists, resolve host names, enable logs for allowed and blocked websites, as well as hide the application's tray icon to make it invisible (can be viewed in the Task Manager).

You can disable each type of block mode when it comes to JavaScript elements, picture dimension checking, GIF animation, cookies, referrer, UserAgent and global blocked paths, as well as remove the KeepAlive header.

Serenity Ad Blocker listens to port 1080 by default but you can change it into anything else, along with the listened IP address. Moreover, it can automatically optimize IE settings (for LAN users) and restore the IE configuration (requires IE restart).