Floating ads

[banana]

I have 2 popup blockers working at the moment-including the google toolbar one.Between them they block almost everything but I still get those very iritating 'floating' ads that drift across the screen and stay just in the eyeline. They are mostly on media sites-newspapers/tv channels . Is there a name for these specifically? Any idea how to block them? Im on ie7 - new laptop and dont want to put firefox on as -excellent though it is for this sort of thing - its so very heavy on memory ( Ive found).
I also run adaware and beside ie cookies theres nothing to report.

[fo3nix]

What was the last version of firefox you tried? Have you tried firefox 2, the one out now that was released about 6 weeks ago? If not, download and try it. They worked quite hard making it use less memory than Firefox 1.x did.

What I think you're describing are flash ads. Firefox can block these with extensions easily, but I'm not sure if there's a similar system for IE7.

[banana]

Excellent!
Thank you fo3nix.I was going to steer clear of firefox after problems on my last computer but I will give a go now -with your endorsement.
No more flash ads -great.