Well, SW was kind enough to provide a link to IE7 Pro forum and I had to join, then I went hunting for the answer.

What I found was an ongoing thread about the Filter List. So I read through it carefully and found a couple of answers that I thought might help me. A member by the name of Alsiladka, answering another member's question wrote: "Check the white rules of both the custom list as well as the default list. Delete the entry from both the lists."

And then ellis123, a Senior Member there also wrote "The white list is the do not filter list. Anyting on the list will not be filtered, no matter how many matches are on the block list. It's useful for specific things (like images that you don't want blocked) or sites that become destroyed due to too much filtering."

There were no further instructions, so I set out on my own to see if what they said was correct.

First of all, their terminology and what I have on my IE7 Pro menu are a little bit different so I had to make sure I was going to do the right thing, so I checked my IE7 Pro a couple of times and decided to give a try.

First I right clicked on the IE7 Pro icon which opened the menu, then I clicked on Preferences. That took me to the IE7 Pro window where everything is listed.

I took a Snip to show you guys:

Then I clicked on Ad Blocker which appears on the list, on the left side, and this is the menu that I got.

You can see there is a bar that says URL White Filter. When you click on the tiny arrow it gives you a menu with about 4 different options, the 2nd one is URL Block Filter. If the name yahoo . com* (or whatever .com *) shows up on BOTH lists, then the ads are not being blocked.

So when I saw that my yahoo account was on the URL White Filter list I highlighted it and then clicked on Delete. Then I went to the URL Block List and I deleted it from there too.

Voila!!! The Yahoo ads were NICE and B L O C K E D!!! YAY....

That was one of the happiest moments of my week! hehe

(You can see pcw dot com is not filtered and it shows over 90 thousand hits!!!) OMG!!!! I think I might have to go see a therapist, 'coz I'm addicted to PCWorld!

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