Junkbuster User Manual

By: Junkbuster Developers

$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.20 2001/10/24 23:58:25 hal9 Exp $

The user manual gives the users information on how to install and configure Internet Junkbuster. Internet Junkbuster is an application that provides privacy and security to users of the World Wide Web.

You can find the latest version of the user manual at http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/user-manual/.

Feel free to send a note to the developers at .


Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. New Features
2. Installation
2.1. Source
2.2. Red Hat
2.3. SuSE
2.4. OS/2
2.5. Windows
2.6. Other
3. Junkbuster Configuration
3.1. The Main Configuration File
3.2. The Actions File
3.3. The Filter File
4. Quickstart to Using Junkbuster
5. Contact the Developers
6. Copyright and History
6.1. License
6.2. History
7. See also
8. Appendix
8.1. Regular Expressions

1. Introduction

Internet Junkbuster is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet Junk. Junkbuster has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Internet Junkbuster has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.

This documentation is included with the current development version of Internet Junkbuster and is incomplete at this point. The most up to date reference for the time being is still the comments in the source files and in the individual configuration files. Development of version 3.0 is currently underway, and includes many significant changes and enhancements over earlier verions. The target release date for stable v3.0 is December 2001.

Since this is a development version, some features are in the process of being implemented. This documentation may be slightly out of sync as a result. And there are bugs, though hopefully not many!

1.1. New Features

In addition to Junkbuster's traditional features of ad and banner blocking and cookie management, this is a list of new features currently under development:

  • A browser based configuration utility (WIP at http://i.j.b).

  • Modularized configuration that will allow for system wide settings, and individual user settings. (not implemented yet)

  • Blocking of annoying pop-up browser windows (previously available as a patch).

  • Support for HTTP/1.1 (partially implemented at this point).

  • Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the configuration files, and generally a more sophisticated configuration syntax over previous versions.

  • Web page content filtering.

  • Multi-threaded.

In addition, the configuration is more versatile overall.