technical solutions and commentary

While is not as easy or nice as the AdBlock extension in FireFox, you can still block Ads in Internet Explorer. The setup doesn’t remove the ad frames or space from web paes such as the FireFox does, however it prevents ads from being downloaded to the browser which saves bandwidth and saves from the distraction of web ads. The hack involves modifying your local hosts file to redirect known ad company domain names to your local machine. This results in the ads not being able to be located and thus not displayed in the browser. Find the steps and ad server list to add to your hosts file in this article: Blocking ads in Internet Explorer
I would not recommend doing this on a corporate network necessarily or on a network server.