FlashBang
I normally refuse to recommend any kind of ad blocking tool. I'm able to pay my bills thanks to advertising. For those reasons, I'm generally willing to put up with advertisements on other sites. However, there's a disturbing trend online to overwhelm the page with advertisements seemingly taking on a life of their own, turning on sounds without warning and generally making the rest of the page unusable. When advertising gets in my way to the point I can't use the resource you are providing, I'm forced to say, 'when.' Firefox users have several ad blocking options, but IE is more limited in choice because it doesn't have the same cult-like following. Corey Gouker recently created FlashBang, an awesome app for killing those overpowering Flash advertisements dead so you can continue to peruse the normal content and advertisements in peace. [Windows XP SP2 $0.00]