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Note regarding Ad Muncher v5.0:
                         
Previously we mentioned that we were working on rewriting Ad Muncher in C for the
sake of porting, maintenance and stability.  This rewrite was originally planned
as a single large release named v5.0. The plan has since changed to releasing
several interim versions on the way to v5.0, each with progressively more C code
replacing the existing assembly codebase.  Ad Muncher v4.7 will be the first of
these interim releases.

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Note regarding beta distribution:

In order to minimize the impact of any bugs on our users, betas are released for
testing in the following order:

 1. In-house testing performed by the Ad Muncher developers.
 
 2. If no problems are found, the beta is then posted to the Ad Muncher chat
    channel (#AdMuncher on EFnet).  The URL of the beta will include the text
    "DO_NOT_DISTRIBUTE" at this point.
    
 3. If no problems are found, the beta is then released on the automatic update
    system in Ad Muncher for people who have the option enabled to "Load 
    development versions of Ad Muncher".

We kindly ask that people not post betas to beta news sites when their URL 
includes the "DO_NOT_DISTRIBUTE" text, as in the past this has resulted in
serious bugs being experienced by a far larger audience than was needed.

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Ad Muncher v4.81 Changelog

Release date: February 4th, 2010

Most significant changes: Several important bug fixes.

[Build]/[Type] - [Description] ==================================================

Key:	E  = Enhancement
	F  = Fix

31319/F    - Fixed erroneous "0" that was displayed in the browser status bar
             under some circumstances when it should have been blank.
31325/F    - Added an interface so we can disable certain parts of the helper
             script as necessary, which was required to fix a conflict with the
             most recent version of Facebook's web site.
31337/F    - Fixed occasional blank source URLs in log entries.
31343/F    - Removed code designed to check for very very old browsers because
             a conflict with some third-party software that injected scripts into
             websites could not be resolved and the check would only be useful
             extremely rarely.
31352/E    - Added code to isolate exactly which filter any JavaScript errors
             occurred in so it can be reported to the user.
31357/E    - Switched to a new method of isolating errors in user-supplied JS
             filters that uses much fewer browser resources and minimizes any
             impact on page load times.
31362/E    - Improved error reporting when a script error is detected in a 
             server-supplied script filter.
31364/E    - If Ad Muncher is unable to access its configuration folders on
             startup, it will now retry once a second for ten seconds, to avoid
             problems with storing configuration files on a network drive which
             is inaccessible on startup.
31375/E    - Added provision in the helper script for server-supplied filters to
             tweak popup blocking parameters as needed.
31376/E    - Added workaround to avoid conflict with Softros LAN Messenger.

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Ad Muncher v4.8 Changelog (called v4.73 during testing)

Release date:             October 21st, 2009

Most significant changes: A completely new system has been implemented for 
                          filtering JavaScript content, which provides much more 
                          reliable popup filtering and significantly reduces the 
                          chances of unwanted interference with web sites.
                          
                          Significant filtering performance improvements have also 
                          been made, along with other minor fixes and improvements.
                          
                          This release also makes Ad Muncher compatible with
                          Microsoft's new Windows 7.

[Build]/[Type] - [Description] ==================================================

Key:	E  = Enhancement
	F  = Fix

30408/E    - Improved helper script behavior to avoid possible interference with
             "onmousedown" event handling.  This change also fixes the broken
             drag/drop handling in Opera.
30410/E    - Changed "Allow filtering enable/disable when locked" option to
             "Allow Ad Muncher to be closed or disabled when locked".  Ad Muncher
             will now require a password to be closed if this option is disabled.
30440/E    - Improved handling of winsock errors in hook DLL code.
30463/E    - Improved hook loading code so that the hook DLL will be loaded more
             quickly into processes which do not have any GUI showing.
30519/E    - Modified Ad Muncher's library loading code so it is compatible with
             Microsoft's new Windows 7 betas.
30527/E    - Improved the blank FLV replacement used to replace advert FLV
             content.
30541/E    - Improved automatic popup removal code.
30542/F    - Fixed a minor bug in the "prevent interference with mouse usage"
             option.
30547/E    - Fixed missing URL in page reports sent from the Opera browser 
             extension.  Also improved the options available under the "Frame"
             context menu.
30552/E    - Added an option to the right-click system tray menu to check for
             updates.
30553/E    - When blocking the retrieval of an MP3 file, Ad Muncher will now
             substitute a very short blank MP3 file.  This will allow the adverts
             on some streaming services to be blocked.
30562/E    - Added an extra winsock hook so Ad Muncher can be notified 
             immediately if a connection is aborted before it connects to
             Ad Muncher.  This should avoid excessive resource usage and error
             messages in certain situations.
30603/E    - Ad Muncher's browser extensions for Firefox (v1.5+), Flock and 
             SeaMonkey (v2.0+) are now installed and updated automatically by the
             installer.  The "Browser extensions" tab of Ad Muncher's
             configuration window has now been removed because it is now not
             needed.
30604/F    - Fixed filtering of Website Watcher.
30615/F    - Fixed chrome error message from Firefox when the v2.0 browser
             extensions are first installed and when Firefox doesn't have write
             access to the installation directory.
30622/E    - Added a mailing list signup field to the last screen of the 
             installer.
30627/F    - Fixed XML validation errors when removing <img/<image tags with 
             matching </img/</image terminators.
30628/E    - Improved overlap correction of certain XML files for more reliable
             video ad removal.
30637/E    - Added prompt when IP Scramble is enabled to give the user details on
             how to upgrade to using Tor, a more recent and (in our opinion) much 
             better way of browsing anonymously.
30642/E    - Added "Blocked by Ad Muncher" replacement video for when .WMV
             content is blocked, and improved the .FLV replacement.
30643/E    - Improved reliability of tag removal in XML content.
30645/E    - Improved the replacement of certain advert-critical .ASF files.
30651/F    - Fixed corruption of some AJAX-related data files.
30825/E    - Finished implementing a completely new popup blocking system, which
             relies more on in-browser script modifications rather than in-transit
             filtering, making for much more reliable blocking of popups and far
             less potential for page damage.  This will significantly reduce the
             instances of interference on JavaScript-intensive sites, and also
             now allows popups to be blocked which have their scripts encrypted
             or otherwise obfuscated.
             
             The new popup filtering system also includes the following changes:
             
             - The blocking preferences have been simplified to just block all 
               automatic popups, rather than the previous options to block during
               load, unload, mouseover and timer.
             - There is now a new option to override popup blocking when the
               CTRL button is pressed.
             - Because of how the new helper script works, we can now just insert
               it into the main HTML of each web site, rather than the HTML and
               all external JS files (as done previously), which will allow many
               sites to load more quickly.
             - Now a single script block is inserted into HTML content, instead 
               of the two or three used previously, which reduces the chance of 
               interference.
             - The old popup reporting system has been removed.

30825/E    - Added support for Opera v10 to the browser extensions.
30826/E    - Improved replacement content for some XML-based ads.
30834/E    - Improved packet alignment for XML filtering.
30840/F    - Fixed bad browser message when running new versions of Opera while
             the browser is configured to identify as IE.
30857/E    - Improved popup blocking logic to avoid interference with window
             opening via bookmarklets.
30858/E    - Modified popup blocking code to check all "Remove all popups from
             URL" filters against the URL of each new popup, and if matched it
             will block the popup.
30872/E    - Modified helper script to tolerate executing on sites that
             redefine the behavior of JavaScript arrays.
30873/F    - Fixed broken window moving/resizing redirection in the new helper
             script.
30874/F    - Fixed broken window.open parameters in certain situations.
30884/F    - Fixed broken onmouseover popup blocking in new helper in some
             situations.
30885/E    - Added some more useful diagnostic information to the error message
             when Ad Muncher's helper script detects a "very old" browser, so we
             can more easily fix situations where browsers are emulating other
             browsers.
30886/E    - Improved the method used to detect old browsers in the helper
             script, which will avoid some false positives and negatives.
30887/E    - Added error catching to the part of the helper that executes user-
             supplied JavaScript filters, so that a more helpful error message
             can be displayed.
30895/E    - Improved the method used for intercepting functions in the helper
             script, reducing the code size and reducing the chance of
             interference from other scripts.
30906/E    - Improved popup blocking to automatically block popups that are 
             opened using global onclick/onmousedown/onmouseup/etc handlers.
30911/E    - Implemented a system in the helper to automatically detect 
             background popups that are opened when the user clicks a valid
             link or form submit button.
30914/F    - Fixed broken "javascript:" links when the link contained a
             window.open function call as well as one or more escaped characters.
30931/E    - Added code to allow popups from global event handlers that attempt
             to read the URL of anchor targets, stop the event, then open their
             own popup with the same URL.
30932/F    - Fixed bug in the enforcement of the option to "Force new windows to
             the default width and height".
30933/E    - Improved the status bar message formatting when a popup or alert
             message is blocked so that a notification for both can be shown at 
             the same time.
30940/E    - Implemented a new method of intercepting browser status bar 
             modifications that is much more reliable and will prevent page
             damage in many situations.  It will also prevent notifications of
             popup blocking from interfering with the display of link targets.
30943/E    - Because recent versions of all major browsers now block web sites
             from modifying the browser status bar, notifications of blocked
             popups are now also displayed at the end of the browser's title
             bar.
30944/E    - Fixed possible breakage of ".smi" files when removing advert
             content.
30945/E    - Implemented a solution for the removal of some popular video 
             adverts.
30951/E    - Added "CDATA" tags around the CSS content added by Ad Muncher to
             prevent interference with XML content.
30955/E    - Improved the JavaScript error detection in the helper script so
             that the reports shown to the user include more details on what
             actually caused the error.
30960/E    - Fixed flickering browser title problem under IE6.
30964/E    - Fixed problem with writing CSS content from the helper script under
             Firefox 3.5.
30967/E    - Improved script performance when many events are registered via
             __amscript_addonload().
30975/E    - Reduced resource usage in the new helper script when working on
             pages with many timers.
30984/E    - Implemented a new system in the popup blocking code that will reduce
             the chance of incorrectly blocked popups, especially popups that are
             opened from inside flash content.
30991/E    - Adopted a new method for managing Ad Muncher's memory usage, 
             resulting in a 20% increase in filtering speed on our test pages.
31047/E    - Implemented a new and much better algorithm for managing 
             Ad Muncher's logs.  With identical log buffer sizes, the new 
             algorithm resulted in an increase in filtering speed of just over 
             50% on our test pages, which should provide a noticeable browsing
             speed boost on complex pages.
             Because of the significant decrease in log-related CPU usage, the
             options to skip uniqueness checks on the logs has been removed,
             along with the buffer size option.  The "Disable logs" and "Pause
             logs" checkboxes have also been combined into a single "Enable"
             checkbox which will be remembered when the configuration window is
             closed.
31057/E    - Rewrote all of the mutex management code and reduced the mutex usage
             in several places to improve performance.
31065/F    - Fixed potential crash in filtering code.
31066/E    - Reduced the memory usage and startup time of the helper script.
31067/E    - Removed the option to "Prevent activity when a site is closed".
             This option was needed back when Ad Muncher's popup filtering had
             trouble with some onunload popups, but the new popup blocking has
             no problems in this situation and preventing unload activities these
             days causes more problems than benefits, eg: interfering with the 
             ability on many sites to confirm exit before saving data, and also
             preventing the user from allowing certain desired onunload popups.
31069/E    - Implemented a new method of preventing interference with mouse
             usage (the third option on the "Advanced" options tab), which should
             result in less frequent interference with legitimate page behaviors.
31070/E    - Changed the handling of "Remove all popups from URL" slightly so 
             that it now matches against the main site's URL, instead of the URL
             of any popup scripts that were included on the site.  The handling
             is now also done in a more reliable way.
31086/E    - Improved the rewriting of "javascript:" URLs so that popups are not
             blocked when opened from bookmarklets.
31088/E    - Added code to automatically block popups that are sent to the
             background even if they don't trigger any other popup warning flags.
31097/E    - Modified how new popup windows are opened to improve popup blocking
             reliability in IE and Opera when the popup is on a different domain.
31098/F    - Fixed interference with drag/drop in Opera when the "Prevent
             interference with mouse usage" option was enabled.
31105/F    - Fixed misaligned "Clear" button on logs tab when window was resized.
31134/E    - Improved status and title management code in the helper to improve
             performance and reduce the chances of unwanted interference on pages
             with multiple frames or iframes.
31135/F    - Fixed broken browser extensions under the latest Opera 10 betas.
31145/E    - Improved popup blocking to work in cases where global event handlers
             have been installed in the parent window by an embedded frame or 
             iframe.
31152/E    - When the "Apply" button is pressed on the configuration window the
             focus will now be moved to the "Close" button, to help people who
             use Ad Muncher along with screen reading software.
31173/F    - Fixed incorrect blocking of some popup windows when created with
             certain window names.
31175/F    - Fixed error in the code responsible for checking if "window.open"
             calls were referring to an existing window (instead of a new popup).
31177/E    - Modified the popup and alert message blocking so that it won't block
             either when created from within an Ad Muncher "Add JavaScript" 
             filter, so that messages can be displayed from filters if needed.
31179/E    - Improved helper script insertion to work better on sites with 
             invalid HTML.
31181/E    - Added extra sanity checks throughout the helper to reduce the chance
             of JavaScript errors occurring when other scripts on the page modify
             Ad Muncher's variables.
31193/E    - Implemented a workaround for a bug in Vista and Windows 7 which
             could cause the installation window to be minimized on start after
             the UAC prompt has been dismissed, or open behind other windows.
31199/E    - If Ad Muncher is currently filtering connections when the installer
             is run it will no longer show a second confirmation dialog to check
             if the user really wants to close Ad Muncher.  Instead a warning has
             been added to the first "Do you want to close Ad Muncher for
             installation?" message.  This change avoids window focus issues on
             some Vista and Windows 7 systems, and also speeds up installation a
             little.
31208/E    - Moved the log "Clear" button back to the bottom of the dialog, per
             user feedback.
31210/F    - Fixed window centering code so it works correctly when the parent
             window of a dialog is minimized.  Particularly affected the "Check
             for updates" option in the tray menu.
31213/F    - Fixed incorrect insertion of the helper script into some XML files.
31217/F    - Further improved treatment of XML content.
31221/F    - Fixed possible JavaScript corruption when removing some references
             to external.AddFavorite().
31225/E    - Improved handling of global "onclick" handlers that open desirable
             popup windows based on non-standard attributes inside of anchor 
             targets.
31229/F    - Fixed incorrect popup blocking in some situations when the
             window.open call referred to an existing window.        
31233/F    - Fixed unexpected loss of log entries under some conditions in the
             new logging system.
31235/E    - Added the ability to disable the "Prevent interference with mouse
             usage" on certain URLs via our default filter list, so we can
             disable it on popular sites where it might cause interference and
             when the site doesn't actually block mouse usage.
31238/E    - Added the ability to force blank replacement of some content from
             the default filter list, to further enhance our ability to deal with
             rich media adverts.
31243/F    - Fixed possible IPC error message when installing Ad Muncher with
             certain antivirus programs running.
31243/F    - Fixed potential page damage when removing references to
             "document.referrer".
31248/E    - Improved "javascript:" url trapping to avoid potential JavaScript
             error messages in some situations.
31255/F    - Fixed possible corruption of the "this" context when trapping timer
             code from the helper script.
31256/F    - Fixed possible crash in filtering code.
31262/F    - Fixed possible crash in text replacing code.
31283/E    - Added support for premium/basic list updates (for a future reduced-
             price license).
31284/F    - Fixed possible incorrect detection of web bugs.
31285/F    - Fixed possible page damage in Firefox when the option to show the
             retrieved URL in the helper is enabled.
31286/E    - Made it possible for us to exclude certain sites from all HTTP
             header modifications so difficult sites can be restored to working
             order.
31294/F    - Fixed bug in DOMContentLoaded trap in the helper script under IE on
             some sites.
31300/F    - Fixed bug in filter list scanning code in helper script when
             matching against non-HTTP URLs.
31302/F    - Fixed bug in filter list scanning code in helper script when the
             keyword was found at the very start of the URL.
31306/F    - Fixed position of UAC prompt when launching the installer.
31317/F    - Fixed possible crash when entering new license details.
31318/F    - Changed the version number from v4.73 to v4.8 to better reflect the
             amount of work put into this release.

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Ad Muncher v4.72 Changelog

Release date:             April 28th, 2008

Most significant changes: This release makes Ad Muncher fully Vista compatible, 
                          as well as addressing some important bug fixes,
                          increasing filtering reliability and vastly improving
                          the installation system.

                          Support for filtering 64-bit applications won't be
                          included until an upcoming release so that Vista 
                          support is available as soon as possible.

[Build]/[Type] - [Description] ==================================================

Key:	E  = Enhancement
	F  = Fix
	NR = Not Released.  Some features are implemented together without Ad 
	     Muncher being recompiled, so in these cases the build number won't 
	     reflect the amount of work in the change, or in which order it was 
	     implemented.  "NR" will be listed for these entries instead of a 
	     build number.

NR/F    - Fixed possible crash when "Allow popups" filters were used with a "%"
          character in the URL.
NR/F    - Fixed possible crash when using IP scramble.
NR/F    - Fixed conflict with video player on jmeeting.com.
NR/E    - Finished work on a Vista-friendly IPC system to allow patched programs
          to communicate with Ad Muncher when running at different privilege
          levels (e.g.: IE 7 in protected mode).
NR/E    - Added option, enabled by default, to remember lock status when Ad
          Muncher is closed.
NR/E    - Moved "Lost your code?" button from the about tab to directly
          underneath the code entry fields to help people find it.
NR/E    - Changed automatic update frequency check code so that it will include
          manual update attempts in the "last update check" time used.  This
          should help avoid some unusual update check times people have been
          troubled by.
NR/E    - Improved submit() javascript function redirection to avoid some
          possibly incorrect redirections.
NR/E    - Simplified Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape browser extension, removing the
          configuration window.  It will now rely on the browser extension
          password being stored in the registry by Ad Muncher.
NR/E    - Modified browser extension for Firefox/etc to work with Flock.
NR/E    - Fixed resource leak in connection routing code when a connect to
          loopback failed.
NR/F    - Fixed bug in config.dat writer that could cause some errors to not be
          detected.
NR/F    - Fixed bug in license.dat writer that could cause some fields to not be
          deleted correctly when they should be.
NR/E    - Improved registration handling so that Ad Muncher will automatically
          attempt to verify its license if license.dat is deleted or the first
          time each version is run so that it won't just sit there with a red
          icon until it's used.
NR/E    - Finished work on a new installation system for v4.72, written from
          scratch with reliability, compatibility and minimal footprint in mind.
          Some new features are detailed below.
NR/E    - New installer layout adopted that more closely matches what people
          expect an installer to look like, making it more intuitive to use.
NR/E    - Implemented Vista-compatible "Bouncer" system, where two copies of
          AM-Install.exe are running while installing, one with elevated
          privileges and the other running as the user that launched it,
          allowing the installer to perform user-specific operations like
          launching Ad Muncher after the installation completes.
NR/E    - Custom storage locations for all of Ad Muncher's configuration files
          are now supported, with their locations being stored in Install.ini in
          the program folder.  This now allows for per-user or system-wide
          configuration, as well as legacy support for storing the settings in 
          the program files folder if needed.
NR/E    - Improved commission-tracking code, which now stores a unique ID
          identifying where the installer was downloaded from inside the
          installer EXE file itself, rather than as part of the filename, to
          mitigate the possibility of the filename being modified and the
          commission code being lost.
NR/E    - Installation progress is now displayed while installing, rather than
          simply pausing the display while operations are performed.
NR/E    - Error reporting is vastly improved in the new installer, in most cases
          providing a description that should be helpful to the user in 
          diagnosing the problem.
NR/E    - A true silent mode has been added, where command line options can be
          used to install, upgrade or uninstall Ad Muncher without any interface
          appearing, even if an error occurs (unlike the previous silent mode), 
          with the option of logging errors and warnings to a file.
NR/E    - A new "Upgrade" mode was added, which is used by Ad Muncher when it is
          installing an updated version retrieved via the update system.  This
          new mode avoids asking any of the preference questions it already has
          answers to (like where to install Ad Muncher, the license agreement,
          etc) and generally streamlines the update process.
NR/E    - Many bugs in the old installer were corrected, including one where an
          empty program folder could be left behind when uninstalling under
          Windows 9x (note to other programmers who may be googling: wininit.ini
          doesn't support directory deletion on reboot).
NR/E    - Removed option to set Ad Muncher to launch on startup from within Ad 
          Muncher's configuration window.  This option can now be set from within
          the installer to avoid having to elevate to a higher integrity level 
          under Vista.
NR/E    - The installer will now remember the preferences used so that they don't
          need to be chosen again when reinstalling.
NR/E    - Moved Opera browser extension installer to the Ad Muncher installer EXE
          (from the separate EXE that was invoked by AdMunch.exe), again to avoid
          having to elevate to a higher integrity level under Vista.
NR/E    - Despite the added features and bug fixes, the new installer will
          actually have a smaller footprint than the previous one, thanks in part
          to a new packaging system which extracts and runs AdMunch.exe with
          command line options telling it to behave as the installer, which means
          that a lot of code shared between Ad Muncher and the installer is now
          only present in a single EXE file.  The final v4.72 release should be
          around 20% smaller than v4.71.
NR/E    - The Ad Muncher help file is no longer bundled with Ad Muncher.  Instead
          when help is requested an online help system will be opened in the
          browser, allowing us to keep the help file updated, allowing Google to
          index it and reducing the download size for the vast majority of people
          who don't use the help file.
NR/E    - Added 48x48 icon to the installer to improve the appearance when saved
          to the desktop under Vista.
NR/E    - Added code to the IPC system in the installer to allow it to read
          certain files from the context of the bouncer.  This will avoid a
          problem under Vista where the installer could not read its own EXE file
          if it was executed from a network share then elevated to under an
          account which didn't have access to that share.
NR/E    - Added code to allow Ad Muncher to modify the security permissions on 
          license.dat and registration.dat so it is writable from all user
          accounts under Vista.
NR/F    - Fixed race condition in registration dialog that could cause a blank
          "check status" window to appear.
NR/E    - Added code so that the installer will automatically locate and import
          any configuration files stored in Windows Vista's "virtual store" when
          upgrading from a previous version.
NR/E    - The registration name and code are now stored in a separate file,
          registration.dat, which is stored locally in the common app data
          folder.  This allows for the main configuration files to be stored in a
          roaming app data folder without automatically registering all computers
          it is used on with the same code.
NR/E    - If a configuration file is corrupt it now won't be deleted, instead the
          content will be erased but the file will be left intact, so that any
          modified security permissions are maintained.
NR/E    - Implemented some backup mechanisms for finding the various appdata
          folders under Windows NT 4.  Not entirely happy with how they all work,
          but haven't been able to find the perfect solution.  If anyone knows
          how to find the common appdata folder under a fresh NT4 install (no
          service packs) please let us know (SHGetSpecialFolderLocation and
          normal registry locations not working, registry search for "all users"
          also brought up nothing useful).
NR/E    - Removed "[Moo! 1000th Ad Munched]" advert replacement (used to be
          displayed every 1000 removals), didn't think it was entirely
          appropriate for corporate environments.
NR/E    - Added separate option to the load/save/reset configuration tab to
          allow users to choose whether the registration details are loaded,
          saved or reset along with their other settings.
NR/E    - Modified the Opera browser extensions installer to also install when
          Ad Muncher is starting (not just when Ad Muncher is installed) to
          account for Opera installations after Ad Muncher is first installed.
          This will only work if AdMunch.exe has write access to the appropriate
          locations, but it will degrade gracefully if not.
NR/F    - Fixed bug in Install.ini saving code that could cause blank fields to
          not be correctly saved.
NR/E    - Improved Install.ini saving code to save the fields to the file in a
          more logical order.
NR/E    - Moved browser extension startup code into its own thread to reduce Ad
          Muncher's startup time.
NR/E    - Added some extra path sanity checks to the installer to make sure it
          never modifies anything it shouldn't.
NR/F    - Fixed lack of synchronize flag when setting shared file permissions.
NR/E    - Modified directory creation in the installer to set global read/write
          access to the Ad Muncher section of the common appdata folder.  By 
          default Vista only allows write access to the directory's creator
          which would otherwise prevent sharing of settings.
29466/F - Fixed possible crash in CPUID handling code.
29473/E - Added code to flush the shell icon cache for particular files when
          creating links to avoid incorrect icons being displayed in the start
          menu folder.
29512/F - Fixed crash in the new uninstaller when clicking the "Back" button in
          certain situations.
29515/F - Modified the uninstaller to not delete the registry entry which 
          remembered the previous installation path when the "Remove Ad Muncher
          configuration files" option is disabled.
29517/F - Fixed incorrect default install path when a previous version of Ad
          Muncher had been configured to disable the built-in chat client.
29518/F - Fixed bug in IE browser extensions uninstaller that could leave entries
          behind in certain situations (thanks Noctem).
29560/F - Fixed misaligned "Lost your code?" button on "About" tab when window
          was resized.
29562/F - Fixed broken WSAConnect filtering (thanks Lukian).
29565/E - Improved IPC system to avoid possible erroneous communication between
          different builds of Ad Muncher.
29635/F - Fixed IPC-5 error on some Vista machines.
29641/F - Fixed hook loading problem under Windows 9x.
29642/F - Fixed failure when setting security permissions when running on a non-
          English version of Vista.
29645/F - Fixed fault reporting failure on some Vista machines.
29654/F - Fixed possible problems when launching Ad Muncher after installing on
          some Vista machines.
29655/F - Fixed possible erroneous detection of temp path when downloading and
          launching Ad Muncher updates.
29659/F - Added extra code to the fault reporting HTML to avoid odd behavior when
          opened in IE7 under Vista.
29660/E - Changed Load/Save/Reset tab to have all section options enabled by
          default, as this is what most people will actually be doing.
29670/E - Modified configuration importing code to write the content to
          configuration files without first deleting them so that any security
          permissions are retained.
29689/E - Improved security permissions assigning function so it can be called
          multiple times without adding duplicate access control elements,
          allowing Ad Muncher to verify required write permissions on
          configuration files when needed.
29694/E - Added a more useful error message if the UAC prompt is declined when
          installing under Vista.
29700/F - Fixed lack of "Ad Muncher" submenu in IE browser extensions under IE 7.
29708/E - Improved installer to automatically remove empty directories when the
          option for where to store the configuration files is changed.
29714/E - Changed text on registration/trial start dialog to clarify that the
          30-day trial is free of charge.
29715/F - Fixed some cosmetic title case problems on push buttons.
29716/E - Improved file enumeration code to avoid possible problems when deleting
          files using a wildcard.
29717/E - Added button to import configuration to the trial start/registration
          dialog.
29718/E - Modified automatic refresh removal to not remove meta refreshes that
          have a timeout of one second or less, which are used on microsoft.com
          for some kind of server farm bouncing, and when removed could cause
          a blank page to appear instead of the actual content.
29735/E - Added extra code to avoid crashes when working alongside some buggy
          Windows message hooks.
29736/F - Fixed crash after a large number of processes had been logged to the
          filter targets activity logs.
29737/E - Reduced startup time significantly.
29780/F - Fixed potential crash in the installer.
29789/E - Added code to check for leftover DLLs from very early versions of Ad
          Muncher to avoid potential conflicts.
29790/E - Added code to the Vista virtual store configuration importing function
          so that if more than one old configuration file is found, the oldest
          one is deleted before importing begins.  This is done to avoid
          potentially importing the older one if the importing function is called
          more than once (for example when uninstalling/reinstalling) with
          unexpected results.
29793/F - Fixed browsing problems when another program overwrote Ad Muncher's
          winsock hooks and Ad Muncher tried to restore them.
29796/F - Modified the "Programs are currently routed through Ad Muncher" message
          on shutdown to ensure it doesn't get obscured by other windows when
          installing Ad Muncher.
29797/F - Fixed incorrect error handling in some mutex code.
29813/E - Improved patching system reliability.
29824/F - Fixed IPC error when using "Run as" to launch Ad Muncher as a different
          user under XP.
29825/F - Added code to avoid a conflict with the menus on box.net.
29829/F - Changed messagebox handling code to avoid the possibility of some
          critical messages being obscured by other windows.
29830/F - Fixed outdated homepage link in Firefox browser extension, and
          clarified the error displayed if an outdated extension is used with a
          newer version of Ad Muncher.
29833/F - Fixed bug where "Add to list" button on logs tab would not be enabled
          when entries were highlighted using the search function.
29848/E - Betas will now be forced to use daily update checks to ensure that
          important fixes are distributed quickly.
29865/F - Fixed flawed title rendering in the installer when using non-standard
          Windows color schemes.
29914/E - Modified messagebox display code to always include the Ad Muncher icon
          so it's obvious which program is showing it.
29917/F - Fixed incorrect dialog display when the "Import Configuration" button
          was clicked on the registration dialog when the configuration dialog
          was already open.
29930/E - Added code to save the entered email address when reporting adverts
          using the browser extensions so it doesn't need to be entered every
          time.
29940/E - Added code to report IPC errors to the user from within the hook DLL
          to help catch some browser lockups that may be caused by mutex
          deadlocks.
29943/F - Fixed incorrect mutex error handling in some parts of Ad Muncher.
29946/F - Fixed possible crash when updating the default filter list.
29960/E - Added code to display an alternate crash report if a crash occurs
          outside of Ad Muncher's code.  These reports are almost always the
          result of buggy firewalls or AV products, so the message includes some
          tips on resolving the issue.
29970/E - Improved the file extraction functions used by the installer, speeding
          up extraction and avoiding some possibly incorrect "insufficient space"
          error messages.
29971/E - Improved command line option handling in installer to read any supplied
          configuration files from the context of the un-elevated installer
          process to avoid possible access issues (particularly on network
          drives) when elevating under Vista.
30002/E - Added option for configuration exporting to include the installation
          preferences used when installing Ad Muncher, and added "/C" option to
          the installer to import a .AMC configuration file, including the new
          installation preferences.  Configurations for network deployment can
          now be stored in a single file.
30004/E - Changed automatic license check when Ad Muncher is updated to a new
          major release so it happens without showing the license check dialog
          if possible.
30005/E - Finished updating the help system to use the new online Wiki, with
          context sensitivity so it jumps to the appropriate Wiki page based on
          where you are in Ad Muncher's configuration window.
30012/E - Reduced CPU usage in patch verification code, and modified the windows
          hook handler so it will verify Ad Muncher's patches are in place
          whenever a window message is handled.  This should help avoid some
          problems with other programs overwriting Ad Muncher's patches.
30018/E - Added text to the browser extensions dialog clarifying that the
          password is no longer required due to several enquiries about this.
30026/F - Fixed erroneous "Fault Outside AM" message when a program lockup was
          detected.
30028/E - Improved CallNextHookEx hook handle passing under NT-based versions of
          Windows.
30030/E - Modified IPC error reporting in hook DLL to only report errors if the
          error would definitely prevent a connection from being filtered.
30040/F - Fixed possible lockup when verifying the license by clicking on the
          "Verify license" button on the "About" tab.
30041/E - Added error message when a failure is encountered when opening a URL
          in the browser (for example when clicking a link in Ad Muncher's
          configuration dialog), with the URL that was being opened included
          in the message, to help deal with incorrectly installed browsers.
30046/E - Minimized the amount of code executed within the hook DLL mutex to
          improve performance and avoid possible deadlocks.
30052/E - Modified manifest information to allow XP visual styles to affect
          Ad Muncher.
30060/F - Fixed delayed progress bar updates in the installer under Vista Aero.
30126/F - Fixed possible lack of filtering if a timeout occurs when communicating
          between the hook DLL and the parent Ad Muncher process when the system
          is under heavy load.
30127/F - Fixed possible crash when updating the default filter list.
30131/F - Fixed possible crash when verifying license on a fresh installation.
30142/F - Fixed possible interference with other windows hooks on NT-based
          windows systems.
30161/E - Added version information to all EXE and DLL files in Ad Muncher.
30168/F - Fixed conflict with Haute Secure.
30181/F - Fixed possible crash if a stack overflow occurred while in the fault
          trapping code.
30184/F - Fixed possible javascript damage.
30185/F - Fixed bug in treatment of SWF filenames.
30187/E - Added warning to the "Live chat and tech support" system noting that it
          is a public channel and what is said can be seen by other Ad Muncher
          users.
30214/E - Added code to mark ops on the "Live chat and tech support" with a "@"
          prefix to help people see which users are developers.
30215/F - Fixed delayed closure of the "Live chat and tech support" connection if
          the configuration window were closed without disconnecting.
30219/E - Modified "Block retrieval of URL" filter handling so that blocked
          ".flv" files will have their content replaced with a "Blocked by Ad
          Muncher" message, simplifying the handling of many video-based ads.
30223/F - Fixed potential page stalling when blocking SWF content.
30225/F - Fixed possible crash when walking the function call stack from within
          the memory allocation handler.
30227/F - Fixed possible crash when loading corrupted license information.
30229/F - Fixed possible lockup when a 0x08 byte was present in a filter keyword.
30261/E - Improved file type detection in referrer changing code.
30266/F - Fixed possible failure to correctly reset corrupted configuration
          files.
30292/E - Vastly improved the filtering speed when "Replace text" filters are
          present.  Also added a new filter category to the default filter list
          so that replace text filters can be used in it when needed.
30295/F - Changed update system to use a new ID for v4.72 filter list updates,
          because now that "replace text" filters can be added the list can't be
          used with older Ad Muncher releases without breaking some sites.
30303/E - Modified "Replace Text" filters to work on all content that has a
          content type starting with "Text/" so that many AJAX replies can now be
          modified when needed to remove advert content.
30311/E - Added code to stop Ad Muncher from modifying anything inside the ICQ
          process if any Secway Simp software is loaded to avoid crashes when
          Simp attempts to modify the patched functions.
30312/F - Fixed weird tab behavior if you clicked the "About" option from the
          system tray menu while scanning for proxies on the IP Scramble tab.
30321/E - Modified helper script generation to compact all filters in the default
          list onto one line to minimize the vertical space taken up when viewing
          a web site's HTML.
30322/E - Modified FLV content blocking so that if the option to "Change
          "[Blocked by Ad Muncher]" text" is enabled then it will replace it with
          a blank FLV video rather than the short "Ad Muncher blocked this video
          ad" one.
30328/E - Made it possible to enable the options to "Change referrer field to new
          site's domain" and "Insert referrer field when none is present"
          at the same time.
30332/E - Added a new filter category to the default filter list, "Replace text
          content type", which will enable replace text filters on the specified
          content types.  This will allow us to deal with many new video ads
          without having to update the filtering engine for different content
          types.
30334/F - Fixed failure to log process names in the "Programs that made
          connections" list if they were not targeted in the filter targets list.
30335/F - Removed the Secway workaround added in build 30311 as it was resulting
          in a complete lack of filtering on some systems where Simp was loaded
          into the browsers Ad Muncher was patching.
30342/E - Modified filter target list handling so that if a process is explicitly
          not filtered on all ports (eg: -iexplore:*) then no patching at all
          will be done in its process.  This can now be used to avoid possible
          conflicts with SimpLite or SimpPro when they attempt to modify Ad
          Muncher's patches by adding something like -icq:* to the filter
          targets list of affected systems.
30363/E - Improved FLV blank content replacement.
30364/E - Changed default setting to "off" for the "Modify browser requests to
          disable caching" option.  Automatic Internet Explorer cache clearing is
          still on by default so hopefully this option shouldn't be needed in
          most cases.
30365/E - Removed some code that was added to monitor certain parts of Ad
          Muncher's buffers for erroneous access (haven't triggered in years),
          which should result in slightly faster filtering.
30369/F - Fixed crash when a referrer field replacement was configured which
          contained a percentage character ('%').
30385/E - Implemented a better method of tracking whether a popup has been
          initiated as the result of an onmousedown trigger.  This negates the
          need for changes to the onmousedown attributes in HTML tags, which was
          responsible for some weird behavior on facebook.com.
30392/E - Added filter category for the default list, "No filtering on content",
          allowing us to avoid filtering on specific content without excluding
          entire pages.
30398/E - Fixed bug that could cause Ad Muncher to load an incompatible list type
          from its configuration files.
30400/E - Repackaged as a final release.

=================================================================================



Ad Muncher v4.71 Changelog
Release date: October 8th, 2007

Most significant changes: We are almost done making Ad Muncher Vista compatible,
                          but are releasing this version before full support
                          has been implemented in order to distribute some
                          important bug fixes.
                          Another release will be made shortly, named v4.72,
                          which will include some final changes to make Ad Muncher
                          completely Vista compatible.

[Build]/[Type] - [Description] - E=Enhancement / F=Fix ==========================

27172/F - Fixed bug that could cause Ad Muncher to corrupt registry settings used
          to launch Ad Muncher on startup, causing it to not launch automatically
          after the configuration was modified on certain systems.
27173/F - Loosened lockup detection criteria to avoid some false detections.
27174/F - Fixed possible corruption of registration details that could cause
          Ad Muncher to crash.
27175/E - Improved Ad Muncher's startup time on system boot, decreasing the
          chances of any unfiltered content being let through before Ad Muncher
          is ready.
27189/F - Fixed resource leak in socket routing that could cause further
          connections to go unfiltered or be blocked in certain situations.
27223/E - Added code to trap faults in previously unmonitored portions of code.
27310/F - Fixed page load stalling that could result from HTTP 304 replies with
          content length headers.
27447/F - Improved handling of malformed HTML comments.
27359/E - Added "Don't show in future" option to the "Update installation
          complete" dialog.
27505/E - Improved HTML tag analysis during helper script insertion.
27506/E - Improved blocked page content replacement behavior.
27700/E - Finished implementing a new system to manage trial periods and
          registration installation counts, which utilizes a short "hash" of the
          hardware configuration to differentiate computers.  This system took
          some time to complete but is fully Vista-compatible, unlike the
          previous registration tracking system, and will more accurately manage
          the 30-day trial period.
27707/E - Added system to store certain configuration settings in a seperate
          "dat" file (License.dat).  This information includes the license info
          retrieved from the Ad Muncher server as well as the most recent
          advert list.  This was done so that in restricted environments Ad
          Muncher's configuration file (Config.dat) can be set to read-only or
          protected with some other mechanism without stopping normal Ad Muncher
          functionality.
27801/E - Improved compilation process to avoid some unnecessary space wastage
          in Ad Muncher's code.
27810/E - Improved performance of some critical string library functions.
27850/E - Improved method used when compiling helper script, increasing
          performance and increasing the number of filters that can be used.
27854/F - Fixed crashes under Windows NT4.
27857/F - Fixed possible race condition during shutdown that could cause a crash.
27903/F - Fixed page stalling when certain kinds of "HEAD" requests were filtered.
27904/E - Modified filtering engine to fail more gracefully if it encounters an
          encoding method it can't handle.
27905/F - Fixed possible crash after routing a large number of connections.
27907/F - Fixed typo on new "alternate method" dialog.
27908/F - Added horizontal scrolling to URL edit box on "alternate method" dialog
          so it can be copy/pasted if necessary.
27909/F - Fixed possible javascript error when generating helper script.
27944/F - Fixed the random crashes some people have experienced in the early
          betas.
27957/F - Fixed bug where multiple copies of the same update could be requested
          by the update system in the same session.
27958/E - Added extra error checks and sanity checks to the update system to
          prevent any update attempts failing silently.
27977/E - Improved overlap correction to prevent some replies being delayed 
          awaiting more content when they don't need to be.
27982/E - Removed the "Avoid binding to loopback" option, because it was causing
          far more problems than it was solving.
27996/F - Fixed bug in licensing dialogs that could cause them to appear twice,
          sometimes crashing the program.
28000/E - Added confirmation dialog when disabling automatic updates.
28055/F - Fixed crash in latest betas when routing buffer size was set to 64kb.
28061/E - Added dialog that will display once if updates are disabled, describing
          the benefits of automatic updates to the user.
28070/E - Split one mutex used by several bits of code into several different
          ones to reduce unnecessary locking, and also prevent a possible
          deadlock when updating the advert filter list manually.
28077/E - Made some improvements to how the filter list boxes are initialized to
          reduce the time taken to render large lists on the configuration
          window.
28078/F - Fixed control disabling bug on updates tab.
28079/E - Updated v4.71 to use a different advert list update type than v4.7.
          A bug has been identified in v4.7 that causes it to crash if lists
          (custom or default) are used with "add javascript to all pages" and
          "add css to all pages" filters over a certain size.  Recent default
          lists have started to exceed this limit, so to prevent further
          crashes no further updates to v4.7's filter list will be released.
28082/F - Fixed possible page stalling when interpreting downloaded image
          dimensions.
28085/E - Changed where Ad Muncher stores its temporary update files to avoid
          problems with UAC under Vista.
28088/E - Added Vista manifest to installer exe to require admin rights.
28103/E - Changed how cpuid code is handled to avoid problems caused by
          inconsistent cpuid results from some Athlon 64 processors.
28109/F - Made changes to how Ad Muncher's default filter list is initialized to
          avoid lockups when updating the list manually.
28123/F - Made further changes to default list initialization to avoid lockups.
28126/E - Improved integrity checks used with Ad Muncher's buffers.
28127/E - Changed wording of the welcome dialog in Ad Muncher's installer.
28140/F - Fixed possible javascript insertion problem in the helper script when
          retrieving specially-crafted URLs.

=================================================================================


Ad Muncher v4.7 Changelog (initially called v4.61)
Release date: October 13th, 2006

[Build]/[Type] - [Description] - E=Enhancement / F=Fix ==========================

10300/F - Implemented a temporary workaround to the conflict with McAfee 
          Enterprise 8.0i that could cause browser crashes.
10310/F - Fixed bug with the handling of certain types of HTML comment tags
          (or rather, discovered a further intricacy of IE's comment-tag
          handling and modified Ad Muncher to emulate it).
10380/F - Rewrote part of the automatic update system to fix several minor
          update reliability problems.
10400/E - Rearranged the update tab and implemented a control to select the
          frequency of update checks.  Previous versions of Ad Muncher would
          always check once a month, now you can select monthly, weekly or daily
          checks (with weekly being the new default).
10403/E - By request, the (somewhat obvious) explanation text next to the
          "My Filters" list can be toggled on and off by clicking on it.
10418/F - Fixed some race conditions caused by some buffers that were shared
          between multiple threads.
10444/E - The version build number shown by Ad Muncher now includes the current
          build of the default filter list.
          For example, Version 4.6 Build 10444/1005 is using build 1005 of the
          default filter list.  This was done to aid bug reports of the lists
          and help ensure that people are using the most recent version
          available.
10551/E - Rewrote the trial-version expiry code to fix a few minor problems and
          increase reliability and accuracy.
15902/E - Developed some simple systems to convert GCC's assembly output to TASM
          syntax.  This will now allow us to include components we have been
          writing in C into the main Ad Muncher ASM tree without rewriting the
          entire program (though this is the eventual goal).  Also switched over
          to the build count for C-based development, which has been incrementing
          steadily over the last few months.
15902/E - Implemented the already-written automatic cache clearing system into
          Ad Muncher and the Ad Muncher installer - finally you won't have to
          manually clear their caches when installing or reconfiguring Ad Muncher!
15955/E - Finally got around to separating the hook and filter/interface portions
          of Ad Muncher's code into separate DLLs.  Previously the entire codebase
          would have to be loaded into each process running on your system,
          whereas now only the patching code itself is.  This should save some
          memory usage, as well as reduce loading times slightly.
          One extra benefit of this change, along with a build-number-based naming
          system, is that you should never again have to reboot your system to
          install a newer version of Ad Muncher (finally!).
16006/E - Minor interface enhancements for the installer.
16020/F - Fixed crash in cache clearing code.  The cache clearing code also now
          shouldn't delete .ico files from browser caches.
16021/F - Fixed tooltip text to also include list version.
16024/E - The "Last updates" date shown for the Ad Muncher program is now
          calculated based on the filetime of admunch.dll, instead of the last
          date that an update was downloaded (so the date is updated for manual
          installations).
16024   - Changed the version number for this release from v4.61 to v4.7 to
          better reflect the amount of work in this release.
16026/F - Fixed minor bug that meant your custom filter list might not immediately
          be cleared when using the "reset configuration" option.
16030/E - The web bug removal option will now also remove any very small iframes
          that reside on domains different to the parent page.
16060/F - Fixed minor bug in the installer that meant old Ad Muncher DLLs were not
          deleted as they should have been.
16061/F - Fixed crash in CacheClearDirect module that happened sometimes when
          installing or launching Ad Muncher.
16091/F - Fixed <head/</head reconstruction bug that could invalidate certain
          HTML layouts.
16103/E - Added filter category "Add javascript to all pages", which should help
          in further customizing the behaviour of web sites.          
16138/E - Added the ability to add your own onloads via the new javascript filter
          category using __amscript_addonload("code" or function);
16140/F - Fixed page behaviour damage when "variable=formname.submit;" was
          filtered.
16210/F - Fixed problem where update interval setting wasn't saved under certain
          conditions.
16211/F - Fixed incorrect tab being shown when clicking on certain
          "dangerous option" triggers in the triggered filters log.
16214/F - Fixed bug in the helper script that was causing problems on some
          javascript-intensive sites.
16217/F - Temporarily disabled the opera cache clearing code, which has been
          causing crashes in the recent betas.  Currently awaiting a fix from one
          of our developers.
16245/F - Fixed some thread race bugs that could cause some strange behaviour in
          the custom and default filter lists, and possibly some crashes.
16248/E - Added <object data="X" scanning to "Remove images/etc with URL" filter
          category.
16250/F - Fixed cache clearing bug that was causing crashes on startup.
16257/E - Ad Muncher's default cache clearing settings are now adopted from
          whatever was used during installation.
16267/F - Fixed bug in URL detection in meta reload tag handler.
16268/F - Fixed bug in helper script that could stop some desired popups from
          opening if they attempted to use non-standard window.open syntax.
16299/F - Fixed <applet tag handling so it correctly factors the codebase tag into
          the code tag handling.
16306/E - Added filter category "Add CSS to all pages".
16314/F - Fixed problem where if a zero-length advanced filter file were present
          in Ad Muncher's directory then no further changes would be saved.
16445/F - Ad Muncher now correctly ignores UTF-8 encoding prefixes.
16935/E - Added browser extensions module to Ad Muncher, allowing it to add menus
          to IE and Opera browsers to easily remove simple adverts or report pages
          to us.
16936/F - Fixed minor bug that could stop Ad Muncher from updating automatically
          in some situations.
16937/F - Fixed bug that could stop automatic updates working if the config.dat
          file was modified by certain early betas.
16966/F - Fixed problem with extra blank windows appearing when using the Opera
          browser extensions.  The problem only occurred if the "Reuse existing
          page" option was enabled in Opera.
17041/E - The browser extension code for opera now uses a few different methods
          to track down any additional opera installation locations on the system,
          rather than just the "App Paths" value.
17053/F - Fixed crash when copying extremely large custom or default filter lists
          to the clipboard.
17075/F - Fixed bug that caused multiple "No category selected..." warnings to be
          displayed.
17077/F - Fixed bug where the "Add JS/CSS to pages" filters could still take
          effect when their lists were disabled.
17111/F - Fixed bug in update code from previous beta that could potentially leak
          resources and lock up Ad Muncher.
17124/F - Fixed bug that was causing Ad Muncher to disrupt SSL connections in
          Firefox and Thunderbird.
17129/F - Fixed bug in regards to keyword format correction when adding filters
          via the browser extensions.
17190/F - Fixed inconsistent menu icons in the opera browser extensions.
17204/E - Added "Don't show again" checkbox to "filter added" confirmation window
          in the new browser extensions.
17248/E - Added code to warn the user if they attempt to use any of the browser
          extension features on HTTPS (encrypted) pages.
17275/F - Minor fixes to the "lock" password restriction system.
17288/F - Fixed display problem on "Report" page in the extensions that happened
          with extremely large custom filter lists.
17292/F - Fixed possible race condition that could damage entries on the "Logs" 
          tab.
17310/F - Fixed cosmetic problem with extensions in the new Opera 8.01 final
          release.
17320/F - Fixed bug that could cause cache clearing to fail when installing.
17331/F - Fixed bug where the "report" function of the browser extensions could
          fail if certain characters were present in the custom filter list.
17338/E - Finished extension modules for Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape browsers.
          For the moment these will need to be installed manually by the user
          until an automated interface is provided by the browsers.
17339/E - Internet Explorer's browser extensions now show error messages if you
          attempt to use the menu extensions for links/images/frames when you
          haven't clicked on an actual link/image/frame.
17341/F - Fixed bug which could cause a blank target directory to be detected
          in the installer under certain conditions.
17351/E - The windows opened by the browser extensions are now properly centered.
17365/F - Fixed bug where images and links could be either not found or
          incorrectly detected on certain sites by the Internet Explorer
          extensions.
17399/F - Fixed bug with installation directory detection in the installer.
17421/F - Fixed problem with occasional incorrect script detection when the
          logging system was disabled.
17469/E - Improved overlap correction for javascript content.
17503/F - Fixed problem with incorrect external script URL recording on some
          sites.
17870/E - Spent a little while working on a performance analysis module for the
          new C code which is now being put to use tracking down some unusually
          long execution times in the cache clearing module.
17879/F - Fixed bug that could cause an error to incorrectly appear saying that
          the Ad Muncher installation was damaged when there was simply a lack of
          system resources available.
17880/F - Fixed bug that could cause the server-supplied list to double in size
          when updating manually.
17893/E - Improved matching of "Alt" text keywords (eg: "earn" now doesn't match
          against "learn").
17902/F - Fixed problems updating when a proxy server was configured.
17967/E - Completed a cleanup and restructuring of lots of the oldest Ad Muncher
          code.
17992/E - Made several improvements to the INI location detection and
          patching methods for the Opera browser extensions.
17994/F - Minor fixes to the URL formatting in the browser extensions.
18000/E - Moved all of the browser extension menu items in Opera and Firefox to
          a submenu under "Ad Muncher" to clean up the altered menu's appearance.
18192/E - Modified the IE menu extensions so they use a similar submenu structure
          to Opera and Firefox.  Also added code to make them context sensitive.
18202/F - Fixes to URL detection when reporting or excluding a page in Opera or
          Firefox.
18232/F - Restricted automatic cache clearing to IE only.  The cache clearing
          techniques for other browsers (Opera, Firefox, etc) could be broken
          far too easily in future if their cache format changes.  Opera is also
          displaying a tendency to crash if its cache file is altered while it
          is running.  In any case, IE is the only browser where the caching
          options cannot be easily configured so the loss of cache clearing for
          the other browsers shouldn't be much of a problem.
18234/F - The installer now does not store a copy of itself in the windows
          directory.  This was a leftover from the very first versions of Ad
          Muncher, which consisted of only a replacement wsock32.dll placed in
          the windows directory.
18251/F - Some fixes to potential race conditions in the startup code.  Hopefully
          should correct some of the duplicated system tray icons.
18305/F - Improved javascript function voiding.  This fixed some problems on
          ebay.com, probably others too.
18314/F - Fixed crash when a particular type of helper script insertion causes
          the page to reduce in size.
18332/F - Fixed bug in the unescaping of certain onload/onunload values in <body
          tags.
18485/E - Pressing the "Del" key while focused on a filter now deletes it.
18491/F - Fixed crash when launching Ad Muncher on some systems.  Also fixed
          occasional crashes in notepad.exe and other processes (related bug).
18500/E - Added "Type 'YES' to continue" confirmation dialogs to the reset 
          statistics and reset configuration buttons.
18504/F - Fixed crashes when Data Execution Protection was enabled in Windows XP
          SP 2.
18506/F - Fixed incorrect removal of iframes which contained mismatched
          terminating table tags.
18521/E - Improved criteria that determined which files to clear from the IE
          cache.
19245/E - Finished rewriting the update system from scratch.  It now supports:
            - Previewing of updates before downloading.
            - SOCKS 5 proxy support.
            - Proxy authentication (basic and digest methods).
            - Updates for all users, with registered users getting the latest
              releases a little sooner than trial users do.
            - More informative download progress dialogs.
            - The option to load development versions (betas) by simply enabling
              a checkbox on the update tab.
19255/F - Removed the option to "Automatically detect optimal scanning settings"
          from the IP scramble system.  This option would work for small lists
          (less than 100 entries) but with the public proxy list now growing to
          over 700 entries it would simply take an unreasonable amount of time
          to find usable settings.  An improved replacement for the proxy scanner
          will likely be implemented in a future release.
19290/F - Fixed bug in the IRC chat client's server list retrieval.
19298/F - Fixed crash when attempting to load a registered-only update from an
          unregistered installation via the new update system.
19299/E - Improved the core library extraction process used by the installer
          to correct some avoidable "reboot required" messages.
19307/F - Fixed bug in core library extraction in the installer.
19320/E - Made improvements to the update interface.
19328/E - Improved the mechanism used for resetting configuration settings.
19365/F - Fixed update thread launching problem.
19368/F - Fixed broken link removal in the browser extension for Firefox 1.5
          beta 2.
19379/F - Minor fix to proxy handling in the update system.
19411/F - Improved IE browser extension menu clean up. The extension menus should
          now be correctly nested when other programs are modifying the IE menus.
19497/E - When resetting the counter or other configuration options, there is now
          an option to revert to a simple ok/cancel prompt instead of the "enter
          'YES' to continue" safety prompt.
19509/E - Improved assertion failure reporting to include more useful debug info.
19570/E - Implemented new method of passing URLs to the Opera-based browser
          extensions that should now allow javascript-based links to be filtered
          correctly.
19584/F - Implemented temporary fix for ebay search box breaking.
19597/F - Fixed update system to avoid two automatic checks happening at the same
          time, or automatic updates interfering with user-initiated updates.
19714/F - Fixed possible crash in filtering engine.
19720/E - "Alt" keyword matching now requires that the specified keyword must 
          match against a whole word in an image's "alt" field.  For example, the
          keyword "ad" will now match against "Click this ad", but won't match
          against "Click these ads", nor "Check out the new fad".
19731/F - Fixed problems with helper DLL functionality.
19743/E - Implemented automatic resizing code for browser extension windows so
          people using large fonts don't have to resize the windows each time
          they are used.
19746/F - Fixed missing browser extension menus in IE when Ad Muncher was closed
          and reopened while IE was running.
19750/E - Finished updating help file to reflect changes in v4.7.
19772/F - Fixed problems with configuration mutex capturing.
19779/F - Fixed iframe removal bug.
20018/E - Rewrote most of the memory allocation code.  Also implemented improved
          debugging capabilities.
20120/E - Separated a single mutex into several to avoid unnecessary locking.
20126/F - Fixed bug in detection of patched process filenames.
20140/F - Fixed memory leak in the update system.
20155/E - Improved off-screen detection code so new Ad Muncher dialogs won't be
          opened with some of their buttons obscured by the taskbar.
20163/F - Fixed crash due to off-by-one buffer overrun.
20182/F - Fixed crashes and log corruption that could occur if the user added a
          new filter via the browser extensions, then opened the configuration
          window and clicked "Close".
20213/F - Fixed potential race issue in the allocation system.
20565/F - Fixed potential crash in update system.
20830/F - Fixed memory leak in the email feedback system.
20832/E - Finished work on a custom HTTP retrieval system to replace the
          third-party CURL system we were temporarily using.  Also implemented
          SOCKS 4 proxy support.
20837/E - Reduced memory usage of custom HTTP retrieval system.
20838/E - Improved context-sensitivity of alert() function detection.
21400/E - Implemented new on-demand DLL loading system.
21414/F - Fixed possible buffer corruption in filtering engine.
21450/F - Fixed crash on systems with DEP enabled.
21920/F - Implemented improved socket tracking system to avoid lost connections
          when identical socket handles were reissued in quick succession
          (caused missing images on some systems on pages with many images).
21922/F - Improved handling of DLL replacement in the installer to avoid
          possible corruption when multiple versions were installed without
          rebooting.
22016/E - Added digest authentication support to the update system, which will
          enable updates for people using HTTP proxies that require this
          authentication method.
22026/F - Fixed bug in socket handling that could cause transfer delays.
22033/F - Fixed bug that could cause page stalls when attempting to analyze
          certain jpeg files.
22048/F - Fixed crash in registration expiry notification code.
22068/E - If the keyboard shortcut to clear the browser cache is used multiple
          times it now won't open multiple status dialogs.
22070/F - Fixed missing start menu group when installing for all users under
          Windows 95/98/ME.
22106/E - Improved the way that the "[Blocked by Ad Muncher]" text is inserted
          so that two forward slashes ("//") will no longer appear before it in
          iframes and other blocked HTML.
22120/F - Fixed bug in memory management system that could cause crashes in
          various other code sections.
22128/F - Fixed javascript error when using the IE browser extensions on certain
          sites.
22129/F - Fixed bug where Ad Muncher would fail to start automatically on startup
          after editing the configuration under an unprivileged account on
          Windows XP.
22130/F - Fixed several possible crashes when importing ".amc" configuration
          files.
22142/F - Fixed crash of certain filtered applications when DEP was enabled.
22151/E - Implemented more efficient method of detecting when an "update.amc"
          file has been placed in the Ad Muncher folder.
22166/F - Fixed occasional lack of filtering after the user clicked "Remind me
          tomorrow" on the registration timeout dialog.
22181/E - Implemented code to detect and report to the user when Opera's popup
          blocking system is blocking Ad Muncher's browser extension popups.
22183/F - Implemented workaround for window resizing bug in Opera 9 build 8238
          that would cause part of the browser extension windows to be cut off.
22190/E - Added code to ensure that newly opened browser extension windows will
          be in focus in Opera even if the "Open pop-ups in background" option is
          enabled in Opera.
22198/F - Fixed error message about FindFirstChangeNotification under Windows 9x.
22200/F - Fixed crash when DEP was enabled.
22202/F - Fixed broken uninstaller link in the "add/remove programs" control
          panel section.
23527/F - Fixed possible crash when loading corrupted server supplied lists.
23556/F - Fixed possible crash when handling server-supplied lists over a certain
          size.
23646/F - Fixed incorrect handling of div/span tags inside of anchors.
23650/F - Fixed bug in onmouseover popup detection.
23664/F - Improved handling of GetPeerName patch to avoid erroneous results if
          called within a few milliseconds of connecting.  This fixes a conflict
          with MediaMonkey.
23820/E - Increased threshold for detection of loopback connection blocking,
          avoiding some false positives.
24097/E - Improved handling of HTTP replies with no content-type specified
          (content is now partially downloaded and analyzed to detect type).
24100/F - Fixed crash when the user entered a nine-character long nickname
          in the IRC client which was already in use on the server.
24101/F - Fixed document.onload replacement.
24119/F - Fixed page stalling when the helper script was inserted into a
          javascript file (.js) being retrieved from a server that used single-
          byte returns in its HTTP reply header.
24134/F - Improved method of detecting local connection timeouts, avoiding failed
          outbound connections in some situations.
24138/E - Removal of embedded sounds can now be overridden using a "Don't match
          against keyword" filter against the source of the sound file.
24348/F - Fixed possible crash when formatting Ad Muncher's configuration for
          problem reports.
24595/F - Fixed lapses in filtering when certain jpeg/gif files were encountered.
24598/E - Improved background sound detection criteria.
24608/F - Fixed browser extension context menu appearance under Internet Explorer
          7.
24609/F - Updated Firefox browser extension to work with the new "Bon Echo"
          alphas.
24610/F - Fixed possible crash in the "Live chat and tech support" module.
24635/F - Fixed stalling when analyzing certain images.
24640/E - Moved the proxy options onto their own dialog and placed pushbuttons in
          relevant places around the configuration window for convenient usage.
24663/E - Modified the "Live chat and tech support" feature to make use of any
          SOCKS 4/5 proxy that is configured.
25112/E - Improved how Ad Muncher is compiled to reduce installer size.
25113/E - Extended "Minimal filtering on URL" filters to also disable the option
          to "Prevent sites moving/resizing their window".
25203/F - Fixed missed removal of top.resizeTo ().
25270/F - Fixed extra blank window being opened by the browser extensions under
          Avant Browser.
25281/F - Fixed bug in onunload removal code.
25583/E - Implemented improved buffer overrun detection system based on giving
          pages of memory between buffers PAGE_NOACCESS rights.  The new system
          uses a lot less CPU time than the previous one, which placed check
          values between buffers and then checked the values after buffer
          changes.  The new system will also trigger immediately where the fault
          occurs, rather than at a later (and potentially uninformative) time.
25679/F - Fixed incorrect filtering of js files which include UTF-8 markers.
25686/F - Fixed crash when launching yahoo messenger.
25722/F - Modified HTML comment and cdata tags around the Ad Muncher helper
          scripts to avoid breaking certain ajax systems.
25791/E - Implemented vastly improved method for analyzing opcodes during
          patching.  This will fix some "Bad opcodes" error messages some people
          have been experiencing.
25820/E - Improved performance of some of Ad Muncher's string functions.
25905/E - Implemented new system for logging and reporting Ad Muncher faults.
25997/E - Made some reliability improvements to imported library management.
26008/F - Fixed crash under Windows XP which started when Microsoft hotfix
          KB917422 was applied.
26020/F - Fixed crash in javascript interpretation code.
26026/E - Improved detection criteria for javascript files.
26032/F - Fixed broken blur () removal on google maps.
26038/F - Fixed possible memory leak in connection routing tables.
26042/F - Fixed document.referrer removal if it was found at the very start of a
          script or document.write call.
26051/F - Fixed broken "Last update" dates on the update tab under Windows 9x.
26116/E - Implemented new system to detect lockups in Ad Muncher's threads and
          offer the user the option to report them when detected.
26134/F - Fixed crash when uploading large files (>512KB) to certain sites.
26137/E - Added code to the fault reporting HTML form to urge the user to enter
          their email address and a description if not already done.  We were
          getting far too many fault reports with no contact information, which
          can make finding the fault cause difficult or impossible in some
          situations.
26153/E - Implemented workaround to a conflict with certain McAfee programs
          that would block internet access when Ad Muncher and the McAfee
          programs were loaded.  Thanks to the McAfee developers for their help
          in tracking this down.
26164/E - Improved the management of Ad Muncher's import tables, preventing some
          unexpected Ad Muncher shutdowns.
26166/F - Fixed incorrect window.open replacement in certain situations.
26177/F - Fixed incorrect formatting of context menus under the latest IE 7 beta.
26187/F - Fixed crash when copying log entries to the clipboard under Windows 95
          (note to other developers: LB_GETSELITEMS maximum is 16383 under 95,
          not 32767 as stated in the MS documentation).
26199/E - Made the version information on the "about" tab selectable, by request.
26225/F - Fixed lockup when IP scramble options were configured in a certain
          order.
26228/F - Fixed false triggering of new lockup detector if system was placed into
          standby while Ad Muncher was in the middle of certain code sections.
26233/F - Fixed potential lockup in javascript filtering code.
26235/F - Improved HTML comment tag handling.
26245/F - Fixed repeated execution of Ad Muncher's helper script initialization
          code on some sites, which could cause the site's content to disappear.
26289/F - Fixed memory leak on thread creation.
26307/F - Changed the comment tags around Ad Muncher's helper scripts to avoid
          problems with XML pages and reinstated filtering of the
          "application/xhtml+xml" content type.
26413/F - Fixed possible lockup in filtering code.
26420/E - Reduced memory usage in the filter list scanning code.
26930/E - Finished implementing a new update retrieval protocol and registration
          management system.  Some highlights include:
            - New retrieval protocol optimized for minimum transfer size.
            - Compression of updates to further reduce transfer size.
            - RSA encryption of registration details to help keep them private.
            - RSA signing of retrieved updates to ensure they aren't altered.
26947/F - Fixed configuration loading failure message in the new update system.
26983/F - Fixed several issues in the new update and registration system.
26999/F - Fixed bug in HTTP module that could cause post data sent in update
          requests to become corrupted if the request was retried.
27002/F - Fixed taskbar icon flickering under certain conditions.
27005/F - Fixed memory leak in update code.
27025/F - Fixed bug in popup removal that was damaging several major sites
          (Huge thanks to Jeff :-)
27028/E - Implemented time limit on recorded function names to decrease false
          positives in popup removal code.
27050/F - Fixed bug that could cause updates to not automatically be shown
          to the user after upgrading from earlier v4.7 betas.
27060/E - Modified the routing code so that if the option to "avoid binding to
          loopback" is off, AM actually will bind to loopback (rather than
          previously when it would bind to inaddr_any and simply connect to
          loopback).
27063/F - Fixed broken browser extensions when Ad Muncher was closed and reopened
          while an extended browser was running (Ad Muncher was regenerating the
          browser extension password on each load unnecessarily).
27068/E - Added feedback form option to "uninstallation complete" dialog.
27100/E - Several reliability improvements to configuration loading.
27101/F - Fixed incorrect formatting of statistics when using the "Copy
          statistics to clipboard" button on the "About" tab.
27105/F - Removed a limitation on the update frequency that was added for later
          betas and slipped into the final build.

=================================================================================


Ad Muncher v4.6 Changelog
Release date: August 26th, 2004

Most significant changes: This release includes many usability improvements
                          designed to make the Ad Muncher interface easier to use.
                          This release also fixes two recent problems Ad Muncher
                          has been experiencing; firstly a conflict with Windows
                          XP SP 2 that could cause general protection faults to
                          occur in patched programs, secondly a conflict with the
                          newly launched "gmail" service.

Version note:             This version was originally titled v4.53, but was
                          changed to v4.6 during development.
                          
Additional release note:  A silent update was done to build 10270 approximately
                          two hours after release to correct a minor help
                          launching problem.
                          
[Build]/[Type] - [Description] - E=Enhancement / F=Fix ==========================

9100/E - Added a new filter category, "Minimal filtering on site", which reduces
         the filtering done to only matching against the filter lists and the
         safer checkbox options.  This category is then used by the "Global
         filters" to work around the gmail conflict.
9130/F - Modified the way Ad Muncher creates patch relocation segments to avoid
         conflicts with the upcoming Windows XP SP 2.  Specifically, the
         segments are now marked PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE to keep the new DEP
         (Data Execution Prevention) system happy.
9160/E - Added "size grip" control to the bottom right corner of the config
         window, making it clear that the window actually can be resized.
         (suggestion by several people)
9172/E - Various buttons around the configuration window are now disabled when
         they have no use, eg: the "modify" button is disabled when no filter
         is selected.
xxxx/E - At various stages in development the wording and layout throughout the
         dialogs was revised to increase clarity, a few examples are:
          - The "custom filter list" was renamed to "Your filters", and the
            "server-supplied list" was renamed to "Global filters";  hopefully
            new users should find these labels a little easier to understand.
          - "Your filters" was later renamed to "My filters" for consistency
            with other applications ("My computer" / "My documents" / etc).
          - "Global filters" were later renamed to "Default filters" - so far
            this is the least complained-about name ;-)
          - The IP Scramble dialog was rearranged in an attempt to make the
            system a little easier to navigate.
	  - Renamed most of the filter categories and "recent lists" names so
	    they make sense for people who don't write HTML for a living ;-)
          - The system tray menu text was changed from "Blocked popups" to
            "Open blocked popups" to avoid the confusion some users experienced.
          - The "pause" button on the recent lists was changed to "freeze";
            as some people were clicking it in an attempt to "pause" Ad
            Muncher's filtering.
          - Also related to the above, implemented a checkbox to "Enable
            filtering" on the configuration dialog itself (to save you having
            to do it from the system tray).
          - Rearranged the tabs in the "options" section into increasing order
            of complexity (simplest ones on the left).
          - Moved the recent lists onto their own tab.  This was partly done
            as it vastly cleans up the "my filters" tab, and partly because
            this is how it will be required to be for the upcoming v5 (due to
            the new filter layouts).
          - Renamed the "Advanced Filters" tab to "Replace Text", to help
            people more readily understand exactly what an "advanced" filter
            does.
          - The icon used by the configuration window now also changes to
            indicate whether filtering is currently enabled or not.
          - Many other changes throughout the dialogs, mostly self-explanatory.
9351/E - Added code to remember the column sizes on your filter list and the
         global filter list.  Also renamed a lot of the filters (again) after
         seeing suggestions from people who tried the first version.
9380/F - Fixed bug where, if a certain sequence of actions was taken beforehand,
         adding new URL-based filters from the recent lists would result in
         blank filter entries being added.         
9500/E - The custom filter list can now be sorted by clicking on the column
         headers.  This also allows you to sort primarily by keyword or
         category as you prefer.
9540/E - You can now right-click on entries in your filter list to show a menu
         with options to copy them to the clipboard.
9576/E - Added a field to the helper script to show the IP/port of the site the
         page was retrieved from.  This is especially useful when IP Scramble
         is enabled as you can then see which proxy was used to retrieve which
         page.         
9686/F - The recents listbox now won't scroll your selected items down just past
         the bottom of the list when updating.
9715/F - Fixed occasional crash when more than 8 ident requests were processed
         by the inbuilt chat client.
9760/F - Fixed misalignment of some dialog text when viewed with certain font
         sizes.
9795/E - Added option to log options to "Enable logging system", which can of
         course be disabled to turn off all logging.
9821/F - Added code to check for non-http URLs before trying to retrieve by
         JS image object creation (fixes stall in opera under certain
         conditions).         
9834/E - Ad Muncher's popup removal system now correctly deals with popups
         generated using the showHelp() and createPopup() functions.
9842/F - Fixed a problem with how Ad Muncher was handling certain incorrectly
         terminated HTML comments.
9897/E - Added an option to the right-click menu in the log lists to allow
         you to open highlighted URLs in your browser.
9960/F - *Finally* found out what was causing the mysteriously reproducing
         "Add filter" dialogs (hint: site needs to be loading while the "add
         filter" dialog is open) - thanks again to shan for finding that one :-)
10034/E - Added "Search" button to the logs, custom filter and default filter
          lists, of course now allowing you to search these lists.
10065/E - Rewrote the scrolling routine for the logs tab so automatic scrolls
          due to auto-updates or searching behave in a more predictable fashion.
10072/F - Fixed bug in javascript spacer handling that could damage certain
          spacer types.
10087/F - Fixed some problems with the behavior of buttons on the "Replace text"
          dialog.
10128/E - Several enhancements to the html deobfuscation systems; some to
          prevent certain page damage, and some to reformat certain types of
          html/js layouts for more reliable filtering.
10160/F - Fixed several minor formatting and grammatical errors on the interface
          which were noticed while writing the new help file.  Also renamed the
          "System tray" tab to "Interface", which describes its contents a lot
          better.
10166/F - Fixed a crash which could occur when attempting to enable IP Scramble
          with an empty "Verified proxy list".
10180/E - Implemented a new option on the "Interface" tab to "Remember which
          section of the configuration window was last open", due to popular
          demand.
10187/E - Went through all the dialogs and made the single-line edit boxes a
          uniform height (about time).
10190/F - Fixed a few minor bugs with the handling of tab changing and
          invalid filter prompts.
10204/E - Rewrote the system tray icon handling code.  It now doesn't block
          code paths if the icon can't be created immediately, and doesn't
          show an error message if the icon cannot be created immediately.
10231/F - Fixed long-standing bug that caused the user's guide to be displayed
          behind the active windows when first opened.



Ad Muncher v4.52 Changelog
Release date: May 6th, 2004

[Build]/[Type] - [Description] - E=Enhancement / F=Fix ==========================

8440/F - Fixed focus() removal issue which was causing problems with certain MSN
         and hotmail pages.
8460/E - Implemented new cleaner icon designs.
8466/E - The registration reminder screen now no longer appears as a top-most
         window, making it easier to keep it open while visiting the registration
         web page.
8481/F - Fixed problem where window.open could be replaced with a shorter function
         name, leading to problems with the white space introduced in certain tag
         structures.
8483/F - Fixed bug in meta-reload target URL detection code, where it could be
         analyzed incorrectly if the refresh time value contained a period.
8486/F - Import/export "browse" function now correctly appends the .AMC extension
         when it is absent.
8487/F - Import/export system now automatically shows the "browse" dialog if you
         click the "import"/"export" button without selecting a file.
8499/F - Fixed bug where the IRC chat client could leave a connection open
         under certain conditions.
8696/E - Completed the final touches on an cosmetic overhaul including:
         - Realignment of all dialogs to maximize use of available space.
         - Greatly improved window resizing code, allowing most tabs on the
           config window to be resized while maintaining control spacing and
           generally giving a far more usable layout.
         - Config window now remembers its sizing to take full advantage of the
           new window resizing code.
         - Child windows on the config window are now automatically centered.
8708/F - Fixed lingering problem with hotmail pages.
8710/F - Fixed minor filter-related problem which could remove large chunks of
         content from certain yahoo pages.
8711/F - Fixed possible crash when an insane number of connections (512+) were
         routed through Ad Muncher.
8721/E - Whipped up a program to scan through Ad Muncher's source code to detect
         any redundant code or buffers, managed to cut a few hundred KB off Ad
         Muncher's memory usage as a result.
8722/F - Ad Muncher's fault handling now doesn't trigger on stack overflows,
         preventing unnecessary fault reports when a large degree of recursion
         was taking place.
8723/E - Enhanced patching system so it can now correctly detect the opcode
         length of "mov e?x, ???, jmp e?x" patches as installed by some other
         programs.
8728/F - Fixed possible crash when recovering from faults in external
         closesocket patches.
8731/F - Fixed possible crash when extremely long entries were added to the
         custom list from the "recent items" lists.
8742/F - Modified calling of the Sleep() API to silently handle GPFs within the
         function - have had quite a few fault reports which indicated this
         fault (perhaps a driver issue?) and this should at least allow them
         to continue working.
8746/E - Ad Muncher now displays a message to the user when there is
         insufficient memory available, instead of just generating a fault
         report.
8759/F - Fixed bug where AMAFstring.dat and AMAFstringsa.dat could appear for
         no reason in Ad Muncher's start menu group.
8777/F - Fixed bug where in certain situations Ad Muncher's URL reconstituter
         could incorrectly include single-quotation marks, which could then
         not be filtered due to automatic filter-conversions to double-quotes.
8778/F - Fixed minor bug which could corrupt javascript content when
         attempting to circumvent certain content spacer types.
8809/E - Made several enhancements to the way Ad Muncher writes/reads to/from
         sockets, which will result in better utilization of available
         buffers, and should produce slightly faster transfers on very
         fast connections or low-spec computers.
8931/E - Spent a while performance-tuning the dialog resizing system to avoid
         flickering as much as possible while resizing, and also to shorten
         initial dialog display times.
8939/E - When Ad Muncher aborts filtering of a page due to unrecognized
         content encodings it will now display a message stating that in the
         "triggered filters" recent list.
8940/E - The "Remove background music and sound files" option now also
         prevents mp3s from playing in the background.
8953/E - Param tag analysis now treats name=src the same way as name=movie
8956/E - Ad Muncher will now automatically load the default server list included
         in its .exe file if the list build number is higher than the one stored
         in the ServerStrings.dat file.
8981/E - After many requests, and 5 years of intensive development, we are
         very pleased to announce... *drum roll* ...the Ad Muncher system tray
         icon now makes cute little munching faces when it blocks an advert!
         A mostly useless option, but we've had so many requests for it over the
         years that including it is bound to make some (admittedly strange)
         people happy :-)
         It can of course be disabled if required, but when active it will
         "munch" once for each advert removed, but for no more than a few seconds
         after the page has been loaded (so it's not munching continuously long
         after an advert-heavy page has loaded).
9000/E - Removed the code to remove title= specs under Opera, as all recent
         versions (since 7.2) handle it in the same way as IE/Netscape.



Ad Muncher v4.51a Changelog
Release date: December 17th, 2003

[Build]/[Type] - [Description] - E=Enhancement / F=Fix ==========================

8416/F - The only change in this version was a small fix to restore hotmail.com
         to working order.  The site was considered important enough to justify a
         quick release to correct the issue.




Ad Muncher v4.51 Changelog
Release date: September 13th, 2003

Most significant changes: New filter scanning system which has improved filtering
                          speed on some sites by as much as 30 times, should make
                          a noticeable difference in browsing speed, especially
                          on faster connections.  Plus the usual round of bug
                          fixes and filtering enhancements.

Note: a small update was done after v4.51 release, to build number 8415, which
      only included some additions to the server-supplied list.

[Build]/[Type] - [Description] - E=Enhancement / F=Fix ==========================

7000/E - New format for changelog so people can see what's new to each specific
         beta build, due to popular demand ;-)
7015/E - Added new "Recent requests" section to the fault reporting module, as
         people generally had a lot of trouble remembering the sites they were
         on when a fault had occurred.
7033/E - Added code to change:
           "<a href=javascript:..."
         to
           "<a onclick=..."
         to prevent href/onmousedown ordering problems in the Opera browser
         (the href javascript is executed before the generic onmousedown
         handler, unlike in IE/mozilla), which should prevent some manual popups
         from being blocked incorrectly.
7047/F - Modified .js file detection on text/plain files so it won't misdetect
         perl scripts as javascripts.
7048/F - Fixed misdetection of custom list size (for >64kb warning dialog)
7060/E - Added "suggest" button to the filter targets dialog (when the server-
         supplied list is displayed).
7106/E - Extended filter targets matching so +process:80 also matches against
         common proxy ports like 1080, 3128, 8080, etc.
7113/F - Fixed the mozilla warnings that window.events, document.onmousedown
         and document.layers weren't defined.
7150/F - Fixed bugs in previous v4.51 betas which were causing some popups to
         be blocked when they shouldn't be, and certain onload structures to
         be not executed correctly.
7163/E - Improved filtering performance by minimizing unnecessary checks of
         the custom/server filter list.
7168/F - Changed the blank image replacement setup so it replaced 468x60
         images with a blank 468x60 image (rather than a 1x1 image) to avoid
         problems when a page only had a width or height spec in its <img
         tag, and IE then made the 1x1 image square by those dimensions.
7207/F - Fixed javascript errors under netscape 4.x (possibly previous).
7230/E - Added new "options" button to the custom filter list tab, allowing
         you to change the buffer size of the recent items list and
         enable/disable duplicate checking (both in the interests of filtering
         speed).
7232/F - Fixed the occasional "Error when creating Ad Muncher icon" errors
         which were appearing on startup on some systems.
7239/F - Fixed interpretation of:
           popupwindow. focus(); (with space)
7240/F - Fixed problems with remove forms/scripts/tables entries not matching
         against tags like: <form>...</form>  (with the ">" immediately
         following <form without any white space/parameters between).
7246/E - Edit boxes are now resized correctly if you resize the config window
         while editing a custom filter entry.
7247/E - Added new options for receive buffer size (under the routing tab) for
         4kb and 2kb.
7309/F - "<a href=javascript:" treatment code (for the opera ordering bug) was
         changed to instead insert a quick call to a function in the Ad Muncher
         helper script (without converting to onclick=), to avoid problems on
         certain sites under IE when the page contained hash-based anchors and
         the new href="#" was preventing the onclick from being processed.
7310/F - Fixed misinterpretation of:
         document.write("<body onunload=window.open('popup')>");
         which wouldn't correctly remove the open().
7652/E - Implemented brand new filter list scanning system using a new scanning
         method.  Significantly reduces CPU usage in this portion of the
         filtering code (by a factor of several hundred times), should
         noticeably improve filtering speed.
7675/E - Significantly improved performance of recent list maintenance and
         duplicate checks using a new buffer format.
7691/F - Override filter entries which match against src= attributes can now
         stop removal based on alt tag keyword matches.
7724/E - Completed complete re-write of advanced filter internals, making use of
         the new filter list scanning system to dramatically improve filtering
         speed, and a new format for the advanced list to improve memory usage.
7786/E - More performance enhancements, filtering speed of a test page now 28
         times that of v4.5.
7791/F - Fixed crash in new CharLower proc.
7792/E - More specific detection of what filenames might be images to avoid
         problems with certain yahoo sites being blocked incorrectly.
7800/F - Fixed crash in AppendRecentLists.DoQAllocBCCheck when recent items
         list buffer size was 1kb and certain sites were loaded.
7819/E - Ad Muncher now patches WSAConnect properly - allowing it to correctly
         filter the new Opera 7.2 betas (and presumably the final).  My
         apologies to anyone given the mistaken impression that this problem
         was being caused by remaining breakpoints in the betas, while this
         was the case (on my system, due unfortunately to something else) it
         wasn't the cause of the problem.
7821/F - Fixed bug in recent betas where the "adverts removed" counter would
         lose the last 30 seconds of increments when the config window was
         opened.
7825/E - Added button to reset the recent filter targets lists.
7830/E - Better detection of advanced filter match/replacement text length,
         preventing crashes when a filter entry something like:
           match: a**b
           replacement: a*bc
         was used.
7831/E - Added check to warn user when there were mismatched numbers of asterisks
         in match/replacement texts of advanced filters.
7836/F - Fixed incorrect removal of X=MoveTo;
7845/E - Fixed filter targets process name detection to properly convert 8.3
         filenames to their full names.
7853/E - Implemented a new command line option on the installer, /R, to install
         without the "Chat with other Ad Muncher users" dialog, useful in
         corporate installations etc.
7861/F - Fixed bug in new filter scanning system where the entries:
           Src keyword: /banners/
           Override filter: /banners/*x.gif
         Would still prevent the /banners/ keyword from matching against anything
         (x.gif or not).
7862/E - Changed the default settings so the "prevent messenger service popups"
         is enabled by default - as I was getting far too many complaints from
         new users saying that Ad Muncher doesn't block those popups ;-)
7889/F - Fixed problem with incorrect replacement of onmousedown tags.
7893/F - Fixed mishandling of "<!-- comment >"
7896/F - Fixed removal of parent.MoveTo/ResizeTo
7913/F - Fixed misinterpretation of quotation marks by filter list scanner under
         certain conditions.
7930/F - Fixed problem in previous beta with some popups being blocked
         unnecessarily.
7935/F - Fixed crash bug at 00027779.code
7947/F - Fixed crash bug at 0002B2BE.code
7954/F - Fixed problem in previous beta with removal of adverts involving html
         comment tags in certain cases.
7962/F - Fixed the "Allow filtering enable/disable when locked" option (broken in
         previous betas).
7966/F - Fixed problem when adding a "(No URL)" blocked popup from the recently
         blocked list where it would be added repeatedly.
7970/F - Fixed incorrect referrer modification in:
           window.location.replace("/product.referrer.php?referrer=...
7972/E - Added popup removal support for:
           this.open(...);
7983/F - Fixed many minor logic bugs in the popup removal system, esp in relation
         to onunload= tags in "document.write('<body onunload=...".
7999/E - Made the tab orderings more uniform across Ad Muncher's configuration
         window, particularly when tabbing between the tab controls and their
         child windows.
8000/E - Added "(Click any entry to open)" prompt to right-click blocked popups
         list.
8020/E - Rewrote the patching system using several new enhancements to avoid
         conflicts with certain antivirus and firewall products.
8027/E - Improved support for html comment interpretation when deciding where to
         insert Ad Muncher's helper scripts.
8029/F - Fixed interpretation of:
           <a href="
           http://www.url.com
           ">link</a>
8030/F - Fixed incorrect error message when attempting to add an advanced filter
         with:
           match text: ...**...
           replacement: *
8031/E - Registration code evaluation code now automatically converts "L"s to
         "1"s to avoid problems with people reading the code incorrectly.
8057/E - Added support for popup filtering for onload/onunload events implemented
         via:
           <frameset onload="open(...);">
8061/F - Made title= removal more specific to avoid problems with:
           <a href=site.com/?title=etc>
         being incorrectly filtered when loaded by opera (as title= removal only
         occurs in this browser).
8063/F - Fixed crash when a custom filter entry had double asterisks in it.
8070/F - Fixed crash at 00029F93.code (ALbFLSmMax) when the user tried to use
         a custom filter with characters below 0x05
8082/F - Fixed crash in AFTranslateFLS
8100/F - Fixed problem when certain advanced filters were added and false filters
         also appeared.
8105/F - Fixed bug where advanced filters might not take effect immediately after
         saving.
8107/E - Advanced filters now don't affect Ad Muncher's helper scripts.
8141/E - Improved the alignment of all dialogs.
8186/F - Fixed bug in detection of existing frame/window names (causing some
         open()s to be blocked unnecessarily).
8189/E - Improvements to detection of image filenames.
8195/F - Fixed bug in http comment length detection, which was causing (among
         other things) garbage to appear in ICQ advert windows.
8199/F - Fixed minor misalignment of "Remove images with suspected adult content"
         option.
8209/F - Fixed http content-length corruption when redirecting frameset-based
         onload/onunload tags.
8214/F - Improved redirection of functions like:
           parent.window.open()
         to avoid problems with cross-site scripting errors.
8229/F - Fixed incorrect removal of "return true" from:
           <table onmouseover="status='xxx';return true;"
8236/E - Added text to "email Ad Muncher author" window with a link to the Ad
         Muncher FAQ page.
8240/F - Fixes to multiple nested frameset onload/onunload/onbeforeunload helper
         script redirects.
8244/E - IP Scramble proxy scanner now checks the HTTP forwarded, client-ip and
         http-from fields, in addition to the original x-forwarded-for field.
8253/E - Better detection of valid "x=open;" commands before helper-script
         redirection.
8278/E - Added support for "onmouseout" based popup removal under the "when your
         mouse moves over certain areas" popup removal criteria.
8282/F - Fixed problem when removing an advert which contained <nobr> tags.
8284/F - IP Scramble scan reminder now correctly displays the IP Scramble tab
         when the user chooses to show it.
8288/F - Fixed minor problems in the Nullify proc.


Ad Muncher v4.5 Changelog
Release date: 2nd June 2003

===FEATURES===
 - Version numbers for Ad Muncher now include build numbers too, ala
   "v4.5.200" for build number 200.  Build numbers will be started at zero
   from the start of v4.5 development.
 - New popup removal technique for removing popups which open when a page is
   first opened (as opposed to unload/timer ones) - using an embedded
   javascript "helper script" - this should prevent a lot of the problems with
   pages not loading when their popup functions were integrated with document
   writing functions in certain ways (as seen on espn.com), it also allows the 
   neat new option to "Display popup removal notice in status bar" so you can
   tell when a popup has been blocked.
 - The above "helper script" was extended to include a javascript error
   handler to handle things when certain adverts are removed - finally stops
   all those darn "Done, but with errors." messages Internet Explorer was
   generating, the handler can be enabled/disabled via the "Suppress Internet
   Explorer script debugging" option.
 - Added new list to the "Recent items" section named "Triggered Ad Muncher
   filters" allowing people to see what Ad Muncher is triggering on, including
   custom/server filter entries, advanced filters, as well as all the checkbox
   options.  Clicking the "Find" button takes you to the section in Ad
   Muncher's configuration where the triggered option/filter can be modified.
 - Removed the check that prevented filtering of locally-targeted connections,
   it seems far more people than I had thought both use locally installed http
   proxies, and don't know how to configure their filter targets list ;-)
 - Ad Muncher now doesn't use OpenProcess and Read/WriteProcessMemory calls
   for IPC on winsock hooks - due to the small amount of data transferred (a
   sockaddr here, a port and PID there) I switched to simple multiple
   SendMessage dword transfers, thus allowing patches of NT services (where
   otherwise it would require messy modifications of access rights on the
   process).  WinProxy filtering here we come :-)
 - In addition to the above, created a new "helper DLL" to allow Ad Muncher to
   patch into programs running as NT services, and also programs which display
   no windows (which would otherwise cause admunch.dll to not load from
   SetWindowsHookEx) - testing revealed WinProxy (and I'm sure many other
   proxies) are now being filtered correctly.  *general applause*
   Info on the new helper DLL can be found in the Ad Muncher help file, under
   "Helper DLL".
 - Trying to launch Ad Muncher when it's already running now just displays the
   configuration window, instead of the notice that it's already running
   (useful when using the icon hiding options).
 - Added "+waol:*" to the default filter targets list - Ad Muncher now works
   with AOL, hooray!
 - Added new section to the "options" tab of the config window to set
   "Taskbar" options, new features include:
   - Keyboard shortcuts to the config window, and the activate filtering/ip
     scramble options.
   - Option to "lock" Ad Muncher, added due to several requests.
   - Option to hide Ad Muncher icon under certain conditions, eg: when no
     programs are connected through it, or when the config window is closed;
     also added buttons on the config window to shutdown and lock Ad Muncher
     (if a lock password is defined) - so people can still access these
     options when the taskbar icon is hidden.
 - Added option to Options/Filtering tab to "Remove window move and resize
   commands".
 - Added option to installer to "Install for all users of this computer",
   which basically just modifies the addition of "start menu/programs" entries 
   and the automatic launch on startup key.
 - Extended handling of "Exclude filtering on site" filter entries so that
   they are checked before matching against "remove tables with text" and
   "remove scripts with text" entries, essentially so you can override any
   other filter entries.
 - The "Remove self-focus commands" option now doesn't affect focus() commands
   which reference forms.
 - The "Recent programs with outbound connections" list is now updated in
   real-time (ie: no need to reopen the config window to refresh).
 - The default filter targets list now doesn't include the "-nav, -outlook"
   etc "problem-program" entries.  Far too many people were wiping these
   entries out (accidentally or otherwise) then emailing me to complain those
   programs didn't work anymore ;-)  A separate list is now hard-coded into
   the executable instead.
 - Ad Muncher now automatically recreates the taskbar icon after explorer.exe
   crashes.
 - Config window position is now remembered after the window is closed - the
   size is not (for the time being) until I can implement a window resize
   handler that doesn't look so weird when resized ;-)
 - AdMunch.dll now doesn't hard-import from wsock32.dll - this was loading
   some third party wsock32.dll files when it was passed into SetWindowsHookEx
   (and hence loaded in the address space and home directory of each running
   process), it now loads the one from the system directory at runtime.
 - Added new filter category, "Prevent page retrieval" to stop specific sites,
   images and scripts from loading - nice final resort if you can't get a
   script/image removed via src keyword entries (eg: if the src= tag is
   obfuscated), or if you want to stop users from visiting certain sites.  Can
   also be used to prevent favicon.ico retrieval (ie: the icons Internet
   Explorer uses for favourites) and lots of other things :-)
 - Finally discovered why Internet Explorer would crash when Ad Muncher and
   Panda Antivirus are installed together - it seems Panda's patching system
   can't cope with transposing relative jump instructions (0xe9), Ad Muncher
   *can* handle them just fine though, so Ad Muncher now loads wsock32.dll
   before loading its own patches (it used to target only ws2_32.dll if it
   was present), panda installs its patches when wsock32.dll is loaded so
   this allows Ad Muncher to install its patches in over the top of pandas,
   and allows IE to work properly again ;-)
 - The above panda workaround was later removed (delaying patching could cause
   some browsers to not have their start page filtered correctly, for obvious
   reasons) switched so that Ad Muncher's patching system would use "jmp dword
   ptr [handlerptr]" instead, which can be transposed without modification -
   or revert to the old relative (0xe9) jmp if there's a relative jmp/call
   already present (ie: it's already been patched, so our jmp won't be
   transposed) - tricky, but seems to work, either because panda is just
   copying over the more complicated jump as usual and it is working because
   of the non-relative offset, or because panda is giving up when it sees
   something it can't understand (which it should have done anyway when it saw
   the old 0xe9 jmps) ;-)
 - Changed the "Recent programs with outbound connections" list into a "Recent
   program names" list - some people were getting confused when programs
   weren't listed in the previous list if they were excluded from filtering
   (thereby preventing Ad Muncher from patching into them and noticing when
   they had outbound connections).
 - During beta testing the above change was modified to include a selection
   box to choose between the old and the new format of the list (defaulting to
   the new), it seems the old format still had some fans ;-)
 - Changed default timeout value for the IP Scramble scanner from 15 to 4
   seconds, 15 really was excessive, and any proxy that takes longer than four
   seconds to connect and download a small HTTP reply is really going to slow
   down browsing anyway ;-)
 - Switched to 16x16 icons for the taskbar to improve definition, also added
   new icons to indicate when IP Scramble is enabled (the cow now wears
   sunglasses, hehe, undercover, geddit? ahhh).
 - Removed the option to "Blackout Ad Muncher icon" - I've had a lot of people
   question why it was necessary; if anyone really has a problem with the cow
   icon please feel free to contact me with suggestions on a replacement.
 - During beta testing the "Blackout Ad Muncher icon" was added again, lol, it
   seems far more people than I'd thought were using it - why does everyone
   hate my cow icon?!?  Also added a version of it with gray sunglasses to
   indicate when IP Scramble is enabled.
 - Popups generated through "<form target=new" type systems can now be removed
   by using "Remove popups from site" filters against the URL in the "action="
   parameter.
 - Web bug removal now checks the image src against any exclude list entries
   you have, if a match is found of course the normal web bug removal is not
   performed.
 - Improvements to the code which decides whether a detected "web bug" is from 
   a different domain - now only tries to check the top level domain name, so
   if a page on x1.site.com has a 1x1 image from x2.site.com it won't be
   removed.
 - Timer-based popup removal now also removes popups generated via SetInterval
   commands (not just setTimeout ones).
 - Pass-thru GIF/JPEG replacement now doesn't insert [ad-munched] gifs into
   the stream, instead a blank image is now used, simply to avoid the weird
   looking images when the image is resized.
 - Ad Muncher now includes its own miniature IRC client to chat to other
   users, hopefully to reduce the number of trivial tech support enquiries and
   help people get quicker responses.  AM-Install.exe file size went up by 3kb
   for the full inclusion of the new client so I'm sure that's some kind of
   record for the smallest functional IRC client yet :-)
 - The automatic update system now relies on build numbers for both the Ad
   Muncher updates and the server-supplied lists updates - should provide more
   accurate stats about when Ad Muncher is updated, and save some bandwidth
   too.
 - Automatic updates are now only tried once each month - but the new check
   doesn't rely on Ad Muncher being loaded on certain days of the month (as
   the previous v4.4 did, where it would need the day of the month to be a
   multiple of 8).
 - Added confirmation message when the user disables the server-supplied
   filter list, a lot of people were turning it off by accident then
   complaining that Ad Muncher wasn't removing adverts ;-)
 - Status bar modification removal code now removes "onmouseover='...return
   true;'" which would otherwise also obfuscate the targets of links.
 - Referrer field hiding option now doesn't change the referrer when retrieving
   .exe/.zip/.arj/.rar etc type executable/archive files - preventing lots of
   "you must download this file from our site" error messages.
 - Added "Credits" option to the about tab.
 - Far stricter checking of content-type http reply header.
 - Ad Muncher can now filter outbound connections made via a socks proxy.
 - Automatic Ad Muncher updates now can only be enabled in the registered
   version of Ad Muncher - sorry everyone but admuncher.com was getting
   multiple gigabyte transfers each *day*, and our powweb.com hosts simply
   cannot keep up with the requirements of unlimited Ad Muncher updates.

   Addendum: several months later powweb cancelled our account.  We have
             since moved to SiteShack.net, which is easily handling our now
             20 gigabyte plus daily usage - we can recommend them strongly
             to anyone needing hosting of any capacity.

 - Added new option to right-click taskbar menu to open recently blocked
   popups.
 - Added new filter category to "Allow popups with URL".
 - Added new recent items list with recently blocked popups.
 - New keyboard shortcut to "open last blocked popup".
 - Big improvements to the overlap correction code, removal of large tables
   and scripts now a lot more reliable.
 - Popup removal can now remove popups from onerror tags, as demonstrated in:
   http://tom.me.uk/2002/11/op7-popup.html
 - Configuration file functions now properly detect and report config.dat
   corruption, instead of just crashing.
 - Added warning dialog when enabling IP Scramble for the first time - it
   seems very few people understand how proxies work and are expecting them to
   work as quickly as if they were browsing with direct connections, so should
   reduce tech support enquiries a little ;-)
 - Added random number field to IP Scramble checking script URL to prevent
   caching of anonymity checks.
 - Added option to "Reset Registration" to about tab.
 - When retrieving the advanced filter server lists or IP Scramble test proxy
   lists the retrieve buttons now change into "cancel" buttons to stop the
   downloads.
 - Huge extension of the IP Scramble system, new features include:
   - Scrambled connections can now be re-established ad nauseam if the proxy
     can't connect, takes too long to connect, or returns access denied
     messages.
   - To configure the above capability, a new "options" section was added to
     the IP Scramble window to configure timeouts and such.
   - New option to "Keep an additional X proxy connections open and ready to
     use" which will reduce the delay in connecting to proxy servers, and
     hence speed up page loading a little.
   - New option to "Automatically detect optimal scanning settings" for people
     who are confused by the connections/timeouts fields - basically starts
     scanning with 10 connections and a 2 sec timeout, then if less than 10
     verified proxies are found at the end of scanning, the list is reset and
     scanned again with a 3 sec timeout, then 4 sec, etc.
   - Added status text field above the scanning status window to display the
     number of connections and current timeout value.
 - Ad Muncher can now handle custom filter lists over 64kb in size; *noone*
   should have to have custom lists this large, every person who has
   complained about the limitation has been trying to convert hosts files into
   Ad Muncher filter files, which is extremely wasteful and inefficient, but
   it's nice to not have the limitation anyway ;-)
 - Added warning when the custom list is over 64kb, also telling the user
   about the inefficiency of hosts files.
 - Exclude list entries now override alt keywords/image dimension filters on
   images/iframes/etc, so you can exclude the URL of a 468*60 image to stop it
   being removed.
 - "Updates" tab now also has options to manually check for updates.
 - when retrieving new IP Scramble test lists/advanced filter lists Ad Muncher 
   now also displays the status of the update, instead of just saying "please
   wait".
 - Lots of little improvements to Ad Muncher's amdebug.dat file generator,
   hopefully they won't be used much (it of course only kicks in when a fault
   is detected) but should make bug tracking easier :-)
 - Registration window can now be minimized, saving people from moving it
   around to copy their name/code.
 - Removed the hook code to prevent Internet Explorer script debugging
   windows, in its place is an "onerror" handler in the helper script, which,
   along with code to remove any already present onerror handlers, should
   prevent the script error warnings from appearing anyway.  Also allows us to
   use a better SetWindowsHookEx hook type (WH_GETMESSAGE instead of WH_CBT)
   which allows Ad Muncher to load into all processes automatically (instead
   of loading into them once they have keyboard focus).  The change of hook
   type also allows Epson's print spooler to work again (though I still
   believe the bug is in their program ;-).
 - Request filtering now takes notice of the content-length field of POST
   requests and hence now doesn't induce the 8 second or so full-request wait
   period when sending very small uploads (<16 bytes).
 - Added option to "Allow filtering enable/disable when locked".
 - Added new "binding" section to the "options" tab of the config window to
   allow people to toggle the "avoid binding to loopback" option.  This option
   is great for getting around some misconfigured firewalls, but a lot of
   people were complaining about the extra (2-3mb) memory usage that it causes
   (see below). The option defaults to off to save memory but automatically
   engages if it notices problems in connecting child programs to the loopback
   address.
 - Changed calls to gethostbyname so that they're initiated from a separate
   child process, this is done to avoid the 2-3mb memory usage spike that
   calling this API results in, and serves to keep Ad Muncher's memory usage
   in the 3-4mb range (even when it's trying to retrieve updates).
   gethostbyname is still used natively when using the "avoid binding to
   loopback" option (because doing otherwise would be too time consuming in a
   time-critical section of Ad Muncher's code) so when this option is enabled
   memory usage will revert to the 5-6mb range.
 - Enhanced memory allocation system so that it can arrange known temporary
   buffers (like the ones used to return sockaddrs to child processes) towards
   the end of the memory blocks to help prevent fragmentation and keep more
   permanently required blocks at the start of the block sequence (to allow
   later blocks to be deallocated when the temporary blocks aren't needed
   anymore).
 - Added thread-ID field to allocated memory blocks so when a thread is
   terminated forcefully its memory can be cleared by the terminating thread;
   for example when the user cancels an update check half way through, or if
   for whatever reason a thread ends without deallocating something.
 - Added handling for "onmouseup" redirections to the "prevent interference
   with mouse usage" option.
 - Added checkbox to display config window "Always on top".
 - Popup filtering now properly redirects window.open commands to the helper
   script when they're present in document.write tags (ie: when a script
   writes another script to the page).
 - Added command to IRC chat section "/stats" to paste your Ad Muncher advert
   removal statistics to the channel (as reported on the about tab).
 - During beta testing changed the IPC mechanism to shared memory with
   mutexes, should be more efficient than repeated SendMessage calls and
   allows Ad Muncher to patch services which aren't on the same desktop as the
   admunch.exe process (several more proxy programs are now being filtered
   properly).  Also means Ad Muncher's child instances don't need to do as
   much to initialise, specifically avoiding several registry queries (which
   were crashing 3dsmax on startup), and also means that if the admunch.exe
   process hangs for whatever reason then the programs it's patched into won't
   hang also.  Neat little system :-)
 - Changed the remove scripts/table filters so they don't remove the
   javascript spacers from scripts/tables before filtering.
 - Implemented new amshared.dll file so the main admunch.dll doesn't have a
   shared writeable memory section in it (and hence is still compressible ;-)
 - More improvements to the overlap correction mechanism - I thought I could
   get away with a single tag nesting counter for table/script/frame/layer/etc
   tags but some sites which had mismatched pairings were causing overlap
   problems so there's now individual counters for each tag type.
 - During beta testing the helper script was extended such that it overrides
   the timer-based popup removal when the a mouse click is detected, so if you
   click a manually-activated popup window link while the page is still
   loading then it still opens fine :-)
 - Embedded file removal now properly removes the white space which was left
   behind when v4.4 removed embedded content (eg: flash files).
 - During beta testing the IPC mechanism was removed almost entirely in
   preference for a system whereby the socket translation matrixes are placed
   in shared memory and the child processes can manipulate them directly,
   removing any possible delay in processing connections and increasing the
   transparency of the patches.
 - Code to remove wsock32.dll files automatically (leftovers from extremely
   old versions of Ad Muncher) now doesn't use IPC but invokes another
   admunch.exe process to delete the files then restart the programs that were
   using them, resulting in the only IPC remaining mechanism being used to set
   up new listening connections to receive redirected connections (which might
   happen once-twice ever while admunch.exe is running).
 - When AM-Install.exe is executed it now checks whether the currently running
   admunch.exe process is in the "locked" (password protected) state, and if
   so asks the user for the password before continuing.  Also now displays the
   "Ad Muncher currently has connections from the following programs routed
   through it" dialog when forcing it to close via the installer, so you won't
   have any unexpected connection resets.
 - The "Save chat" button on the IRC chat tab is now disabled if there's no
   text to save ;-)
 - Added field to the IRC chat window to display number of people present.
 - IRC client supports /me command.
 - Added keyboard shortcut to "Toggle Ad Muncher lock".
 - "<Param name=X value=X" removal now doesn't check the value field against 
   your src keyword filters unless it contains a period or CGI values (as to
   indicate a filename/URL).
 - Added warning to user if they try to close the config window while
   connected to the "chat to other users" chat module.
 - "Remove window move and resize commands" now accounts for MoveBy and
   ResizeBy commands.
 - When saving a custom filter entry, single quotation marks (') are
   automatically changed to doubles ("), because this is what happens when
   a page is filtered anyway so avoids some filters not matching when they
   should have.
 - Added warning when user attempts to save a filter targets list with no
   "+" entries in it (ie: filtering disabled on all programs).
 - Helper script system was changed in beta testing to negate the need for
   a second script at the bottom of pages, this was previously used to
   redirect onload settings after the page had set them as it wanted, but
   was causing problems when certain sites didn't deal well with having
   extra comment tags at the end (eg: when there's unterminated comments),
   and not having comment tags of course caused other problems ;-)
 - Extended helper script insertion stuff so it inserts a small amount of
   blank space into the content length field when it's passed through,
   this space is then used to insert small bits of code as necessary
   (for example when inserting another command into "<body onload=" tags)
   any unused space is filled out at the end of the document with spaces
   (ugly, but far better than waiting for the full page to download before
   filtering).
 - Helper script is now inserted in the <head section where possible, or
   immediately after the <body tag in the absence of a head section.
 - Added XML comment tags to make the helper script more XML friendly
   (many thanks to Svend Tofte for the great info).
 - Added new filter category, "Override filter" which allows you to enter
   keywords which, when matched, override any other filters present and
   stop them from triggering.
 - Extended javascript alert removal so it redirects alert calls to a
   function in the helper script, allowing it to only remove alerts on
   startup and show them on the status bar if they're stopped, also moved
   the alert removal option to the "popup removal" tab as it seemed more
   appropriate to be next to the "show status bar removal notice" option.
 - Changed "Remove banners with 400-500 by 30-85 pixels" to a more
   reasonable"400-500 by 40-85".
 - Advanced filter entry window now automatically removes any asterisks
   at the start/end of the match/replacement texts, these aren't ever
   necessary (they are assumed, basically).
 - Added option to "Prevent sites changing scrollbar colors".
 - Implemented extra code into the helper script so that the "prevent
   window move/resize commands" option now also applies to
   top/left/width/height specs in window.open() commands.
 - Above behaviour was later moved to its own option, "Force new windows
   to default width/height".
 - Added new option to "Force new windows to always have toolbars".
 - Improved popup removal when window.open functions are obfuscated.
 - Added code to the registration code interpretation to automatically
   change "O"'s to zeros, I'd been getting a few complaints a day of
   registration codes not working where invariably it was because of
   people misreading the code in this way ;-)
 - Automatic updates to Ad Muncher now download new versions of the
   installer, not just the admunch.dll file, in anticipation of
   different patching systems I'm planning on using for the next version.
   This also allows me to not compress admunch.dll (as was done
   previously to reduce the update size) - which greatly reduces memory
   usage when loading admunch.dll into SetWindowsHookEx, as well as
   allowing me to use a shared memory section in the admunch.dll file.
 - Removed the "Notify user before applying +* entries" option; with
   the new default-exclude format of the server-supplied filter targets
   the nasty natures of the previous "+*:80" entry are gone so this
   option is made somewhat redundant.
 - Implemented new filter targets setup with custom and server-supplied
   targets lists; with the latter being delivered via entries in the
   normal server-supplied list (and hence automatically updated with it
   also).
 - The first time v4.5 is run it will remove any +* entries from the
   filter targets list imported from previous versions - these entries 
   would make the new default-exclude format useless, but of course you
   can add them again if required.
 - Error message windows now have "MB_TOPMOST" to prevent them getting
   lost in the background ;-)
 - Added new option to "Prevent customized bookmark/address icons",
   which prevents "favicon.ico" retrieval and removes
   "<link rel='shortcut icon' ...>" tags.
 - If removing an anchor and there's insufficient space to insert the
   full "[AD-MUNCHED]", Ad Muncher will now just insert "[AD]" (rather
   than removing the link altogether).
 - The "Email Ad Muncher Author" feature now connects to a script on
   admuncher.com's http server, rather than its smtp server, to avoid
   problems where people had firewalls preventing outbound access on
   port 25.
 - Added option: "Don't remove text-only advert links", enabled by
   default on new installs.
 - More improvements to the patching system - it can now automatically
   remove patches installed by other Ad Muncher versions, and will now
   not write over patches when being unloaded unless it's absolutely
   sure the patch is it's own.
 - Connections are now routed through Ad Muncher regardless of whether
   it's enabled or not - this was changed because too many people were
   getting confused when browsers used persistent connections and were
   reusing connections which were established when Ad Muncher was
   disabled (and hence not routed through AM); filtering can now be
   reliably turned on and off without worrying about getting a browser
   to establish the connection again.
 - Modified POST content length handling to check for extra
   unnecessary crlf characters after the specified content-length,
   as it appears IE 6 (and possibly others) are sending them.
 - Extended onmouseover handling to handle onmouseleave events too.
 - Added option to "Replace removed images with their "ALT" text.
 - Clicking "new" on the advanced filter tab now also focuses the
   new filter entry.
 - HTML tag filtering now correctly interprets (and ignores) content
   between comment tags ("<!-- -->").
 - Improvements to overlap correction when filtering javascript files
   (.js)
 - Added option to "Prevent mouse-trail visual effects".
 - Later the above mouse-trail option was moved into the "Prevent
   interference with mouse behaviour" option.
 - Added new filter category, "Remove div tags with text", to help
   combat floating CSS adverts.
 - Sorting of the custom list is now done based on the order of the
   filter categories in the drop-down category box, instead of simply
   the alphabetical order of the category prefixes in the
   CustomStrings.dat file.
 - Recent items div/script/table lists now remove white space before
   and after the asterisks.
 - Extended option to "prevent status bar modifiers" so it also
   removes "defaultstatus" modifications.  Originally this was
   intentionally left alone because it doesn't obscure the targets
   of links etc, but too many people didn't like the behaviour so out
   it goes :-)
 - Improvements to overlap correction in regards to dealing with
   </> brackets inside of scripts, resulting in more reliable script
   filtering.
 - Lots more improvements to overlap correction in regards to
   alignment of script functions in <script tags of html files.
 - Javascript interpretation now correctly handles .js files sent
   back with "content-type: application/octet-stream".
 - Added option to "Set maximum receive buffer size", added to allow
   people on faster connections to have better filtering while still
   allowing those on slower connections to browse without delays.
   Maximum buffer size is set to 64kb simply because anything much
   larger would induce a too noticeable cpu-usage spike when
   Ad Muncher started processing that chunk of data (during tests a
   128kb chunk of anchor/img tags produced about 2 solid seconds of
   cpu usage on a duron 700, still a bit excessive though).
 - Network installations of Ad Muncher can now be automatically
   updated by exporting the desired Ad Muncher configuration to
   a file named "update.amc", then placing that file into the
   "c:\program files\ad muncher" directory.  Ad Muncher will then
   load the new configuration automatically either when it's first
   loaded or every thirty seconds while it's loaded.
 - Added command line options to installer to automate network
   installs, please consult the Ad Muncher help file for information
   on how to use these.
 - Extended option to "prevent pages focusing their own window" so
   it removes blur() instructions too to prevent pages removing
   their own window from focus.  Stops those annoying sites which
   un-focus themselves repeatedly when you try to view them.
 - Modified helper script insertion so the script is inserted after any
   meta/title tags as well, as it seems certain versions of Internet
   Explorer have problems when it's present before them.  A few tests
   showed scripts loaded in that section were executed twice under certain
   conditions, and had no effect on the actual document (eg: setting
   onmousedown handlers had no effect on the rest of the document), strange,
   but seems to work happily after the title/meta tags.
 - IP Scramble proxy scanner now sets SO_DONTLINGER on sockets
   before closing - I know, there are many reasons for not doing this,
   but an unacceptable number of people were experiencing problems
   with scanning on low-spec systems even with very conservative
   scanning parameters.
 - Ad Muncher's helper script is now split into two parts, one which
   is inserted (if possible) at the start of the <head section, then
   another much shorter one which is inserted at the end of the <head
   section.  This is done because of the above mentioned Internet
   Explorer problem in regards to title/meta tags, and was necessitated
   by some pages which had their own scripts present before the title/meta
   tags (which meant the first script's functions needed to be present
   before them), and the fact that certain other parts still had to
   execute after the title/meta sections to avoid the IE problem.
 - Entries in the filter targets list can now be enclosed in quotation
   marks to denote full process-name matching, eg:
   +"go":80
   would match against "go.exe", but not "goat.exe", or "pogo.exe".  You
   can also put a single quotation mark on either side to denote no
   extra characters on that side only, eg:
   +"go:80
   would match against "goat.exe", but not "pogo.exe".
 - Added option to "Prevent sites from bookmarking themselves".
 - Extended OnUnload handling (in both popup removal and the option to
   "stop scripts that run when you exit a page") so it also handles
   "onbeforeunload" handlers.
 - Added option to "Restore all defaults" on the "about" tab.
 - Implemented "load-on-demand" system so the admunch.dll file won't
   load unnecessary libraries when loaded into other processes in the
   system - this reduces memory usage and also prevents crashes of
   certain 16bit programs (eg: freecell under windows 9x).
 - Added option to "Prevent 'messenger service' popups from appearing
   while Ad Muncher is activated".
 - Document.referrer removal now replaces them with references to
   a variable in the Ad Muncher helper script, so these references
   can now also be changed to your specified "replace with" setting.
 - Javascript removal functions which previously replaced certain
   code with "foo1" or "foo0" now replace it with "AdMch"; this was
   done to make it clearer what Ad Muncher had modified.
 - Tag removal code now takes notice of the dimensions of images being
   removed, and limits the replacements based on those dimensions.
 - Tag removal code now tries to insert replacement text inbetween
   certain tags to maintain formatting of the removed text/images.
 - Changed the "Activate" menu option to "Enable filtering" / "Disable
   filtering", similarly with the "Enable IP Scramble" option, making
   it slightly more intuitive.
 - Implemented far better focus() and blur() removal based on redirection
   to functions in the helper script, which then determines at run-time
   if the targeted object is a window or a form object (of course the
   latter shouldn't be affected).
 - Enhanced "prevent status bar modifiers" option by limiting its title=
   removal to requests made from the opera browser process (or requests
   containing an opera user agent); so far opera appears to be the only
   browser which displays title= attributes in the status bar (everyone
   else displays it in tooltips), so it made sense to limit it in this
   fashion and maintain the helpful tooltips in other browsers.
 - Extended "Remove div tags with text" filter category to:
   "Remove divs/spans with text", to obviously encompass the somewhat
   similar "<span" tags.
 - A lot of the javascript filtering systems are now far more context-
   sensitive than in previous versions of Ad Muncher, for example limiting
   status= removal to scripts and onXXX events.  Our apologies to any
   tortured web admins who were using status= variables for other
   purposes ;-)  (which v4.4 and previous of course just wrote over
   willy-nilly).
 - Added option to copy to clipboard after right-clicking entries in
   the "Recent items" lists.
 - URL entries in the recent lists are now displayed in their original
   case (rather than lowercase as in all previous versions).
 - More improvements to the context sensitivity of javascript filtering,
   preventing many problems on sites which document certain javascript
   functions.
 - Window.open functions with name = _media or _search are now only allowed
   if the browser currently being used is Internet Explorer, as of course
   in other browsers these types just behave like normal popup windows.
 - New system in popup blocking code which returns a simulated window
   handle to prevent script errors when a popup is blocked.
 - Popup removal now also fully supports modification of ShowModlessDialog
   and ShowModalDialog functions.
 - Popups removed from onmouseover/timer events now also display notices
   in the status bar and the Ad Muncher recent lists.
 - Added support for heuristic removal of <form popups.
 - Slight rearrangement of the custom filter list window to optimise
   the use of available screen space.
 - Added right-click menu for server-supplied filter list to allow filter
   entries to be copied to the clipboard.
 - Added "Popup reports" section to the popup removal dialog, which can
   be used to send reports of blocked popups automatically to admuncher.com
   to help us fix any incorrectly blocked popups.
 - Added new filter category, "Remove forms with text".
 - Far better timer-based popup removal based on redirects to the helper
   scripts.
 - Better case-sensitivity when analyzing javascript segments.
 - Javascript filtering now correctly interprets "var open=123" in regards
   to removing "openredirect=open;" commands; also applies to other filtered
   function names, and includes handling of "function foobar(open){" local
   vars.
 - Extended background sound removal to deal with .rm files also.
 - Added option to enable/disable adding of start menu program group when
   installing.
 - Added option on server-supplied filter list to "Still use popup-related
   entries".
 - Fixed crash when custom filter list was exactly 64kb in size.
 - Changed order of "Import/Export" dialog so it matches up with the
   "import/export" title.
 - Implemented current filter count in configuration window title.
 - Implemented helper-script based onunload popup removal, bringing onunload
   popup removal reliability up to par with the other new removal systems.
===BUGS===
 - Fixed bug where some small HTTP requests were passed through without
   filtering.
 - Lots of little fixes to the nullify routine.
 - Fixed admunch.exe hang (100% cpu usage) when filtering certain e-eye pages.
 - The v4.3d configuration import code now doesn't overwrite any settings
   already present in the v4.4 config file.
 - Popup removal now properly interprets html tags within document.write and
   writeln tags within scripts; it would previously identify the code as
   javascript commands, occasionally leading to content damage.
 - Tag removal code now properly interprets comment tags nested within other
   tags.
 - Proper handling of improperly terminated <iframe tags (ie: without a
   </iframe> following).
 - Fixed problem with taskbar icon not appearing properly on startup (usually
   under windows XP) - removed the "Delay loading by X" option because it's no
   longer necessary :-)
 - Nullify routine now does not add a semicolon when removing functions which
   didn't have a semicolon to begin with, fixes problems with certain types of
   javascript conditional structures.
 - Fixed crash when attempting to save extremely large IP Scramble verified
   lists.
 - Nullify routine now correctly removes badfunction from
   "if(condition)badfunction();" (no spaces) without wiping out the if
   structure too.
 - URL reconstruction now handles URLs without a protocol spec properly, eg:
   //site.com/page.htm
 - Fixed bug where refresh URL in meta tags would be incorrectly interpreted
   if the tag was inside of a script; usually leading to the tag being removed
   when it shouldn't.
 - ParseRadix now stops filtering at any non-hexadecimal digits - stops
   misinterpretation of content-length fields where the numbers are followed
   by spaces.
 - SetTimeout("badpopupfunction();", 100) popup generation systems are now
   removed properly.
 - Popup removal now doesn't treat document.open() as a popup.
 - alert() removal now a lot more pedantic about checking the format of alerts
   before removing - fixes some content damage.
 - The script and table removal code now checks for a full <script/<table tag,
   rather than the previous abbreviated <scr/<tab check.
 - Document.referrer javascript removal now correctly removes
   window.document.referrer.
 - If you remove an advanced filter, then create another, the new filter now
   doesn't appear with the match/replacement texts of the previously deleted
   filter.
 - Fixed 3dsmax crashes.
 - Fixed crash when parent/child IPC module couldn't allocate any memory.
 - Improvements to overlap correction, fixing occasional filtering failures.
 - Fixed bug when removing "jsvar = '...' + document.referrer + '...';"
 - Timer-based popup removal now doesn't remove popups if the timeout interval
   is under 100ms - I found a lot of these "popups" were just frame
   modifications used during page loading and shouldn't normally be removed.
 - Popup removal now doesn't remove window.open commands which name the new
   window "_top" (ie: open in the current window) or which reference the names
   of frames in the current window.
 - Connect/gethostname/getpeername IPC modules now work in their own thread to
   avoid delays when Ad Muncher is busy filtering a packet.
 - Ad Muncher now doesn't remove window.open commands which reference windows
   with special names: _top, _self, _parent, _search and _media.
 - Fixed small memory leak in child processes when Ad Muncher was repeatedly
   loaded and unloaded.
 - Popup removal now properly detects suspect functions which immediately
   follow nesting brackets, eg: function dopop{open()}dopop();
 - Fixed bug where under certain conditions when shutting down windows XP you
   would occasionally get "AdMuncherTranslateWindow not responding" errors
   prompting the user to force the program to close.
 - Fixed crash (well, not a crash, but Ad Muncher does automatic bounds
   checking on all of its buffers, and closes when integrity is lost) when Ad
   Muncher patched in to a program with a directory name more than 512 bytes
   long (forgot to include space for the null in the buffer).
 - Changed the config.dat locking mechanism timeout from 50ms to 3 minutes,
   under extra heavy system load the short timeout could lead to configuration
   resets.
 - The horizontal scroll bar extent setting for the recent lists now uses the
   correct font when determining maximum width of entries, hence now no white
   space is present when scrolling to the far-right.
 - Fixed error flag check on WM_SOCKET messages - was dividing lparam into
   eight bit halves instead of the correct 16 bit ones ;-)
 - Fixed crash when an advanced filter's replacement text contained asterisks
   when the match text didn't.
 - ReconURL routine now properly reformats URLs in the format:
   http://domain.com?cgi
   (most browsers automatically convert this to http://domain.com/?cgi)
 - Fixed page stalls when inserting blank/ad-munched images into http request
   streams which happened under certain conditions.
 - Fixed bug where occasionally "<" brackets would be removed from "remove
   tables"/"remove scripts" filter matches (ie: the scripts would appear in
   the damaged form in the recent list and the filter entries would also be
   compared to the damaged content).
 - Fixed occasional damage to anchor targets which had the text "title=" in
   the target address.
 - Fixed misinterpretation of settimeout() timeout value if it was enclosed in
   quotation marks.
 - Fixed bug where a function named something_alert() would be mistaken for a
   javascript alert box call.
 - Anchor removal now properly removes:
   <a href=advert><img src=ad.gif><table...
 - Fixed misdetection of html/javascript file content which was causing
   occasional <script></script> tags to surround the helper script when they
   shouldn't have.
 - Fixed jerky horizontal scrolling in IRC chat text entry box.
 - Fixed adult image removal so it now properly checks whether other
   characters precede/follow the trigger words, preventing triggering on
   sites like "www.analogx.com".
 - Moveto and Resizeto commands are now only removed if they reference a
   window to avoid problems with layered documents.
 - Moveto/Resize to removal now also works if there's no context preceding
   it, ala "ResizeTo(...);".
 - Fixed fault in the fault handler (lol) which prevented it from generating
   a debug log under certain conditions (Ad Muncher would just appear to
   freeze).
 - Fixed fault when scanning proxies in the new "automatic mode" when you
   weren't connected to the internet.
 - When importing a .amc config file, if the new custom list is shorter than
   the old custom list there now isn't remnants of the old list left behind
   immediately after importing (until Ad Muncher is reset).
 - Improved mouse interference code removal; it now only removes code which
   changes the mouse behaviour variables, rather than anything which
   references them at all.
 - Javascript filtering now correctly deals with javascript
   "with (xxx) {...}" structures.
 - Very much improved html tag interpreting code which fixes
   misinterpretation of certain html tag formattings, for example when a
   tag includes a URL with < / > brackets inside it, or when a <script tag
   is embedded within the < > delimiters of another tag, etc.
 - Fixed bug where occasionally the popup filtering wouldn't recognize the
   end of a SetTimeout("... command and would interpret the rest of the
   script as a timeout function (usually just killing off popups
   willy-nilly).
 - Fixed page download stalls under certain conditions.
 - Fixed crash when using advanced filters with mismatched asterisks.
 - When inserting the helper script, Ad Muncher now properly deals with
   modifying the fields when there are mutliple content-length fields
   present (though why the heck this happens I have no idea).
 - HTTP reply interpretation now correctly deals with replies with
   "connection: keep-alive" and no content-length field (it now just
   reverts to "connection: close" interpretation).
 - Reply interpretation now assumes content-length = 0 on reply codes
   1xx/204/304.
 - Limited focus() removal to scripts and body tags.
 - OnUnload popup removal now properly interprets tags like:
   <script for=window event=onunload>
 - Fixed removal of document.referrer tags when they were contained in
   certain conditional structures.
 - Status bar notices in the helper script now work correctly in Opera,
   from my tests it seems Opera has trouble with:
     defaultStatus=varname;
   but works okay with
     defaultStauts="text";
   so formatting the whole command and varname into another variable
   and then passing that into an eval() seems to keep opera happy :-)
 - Shortly after fixing the above Opera problem I discovered that the
   newly released Opera 7 doesn't allow changing of the status bar at
   all, *sigh*.  I've contacted the opera people in the hopes of finding
   a workaround but my hopes aren't high.  If you object to this
   restriction a little email to the Opera folks (who otherwise make
   extremely good software) expressing your concern might help :-)
 - Fixed bug in javascript spacer removal which could corrupt scripts
   under certain conditions.
 - HTTP request filtering now also disables content encoding when a
   URL is excluded from filtering to prevent problems when multiple
   pages were being requested over a persistent connection and only
   some of them were excluded.
 - Fixed problem where Internet Explorer would experience page
   retrieval problems when using automatic proxy configuration scripts
   retrieved from remote hosts.
 - Fixed bug when certain frameset combinations could confuse Ad
   Muncher's row/col fixing when removing <frame tags (usually
   resulting in oddly sized frames).
 - When removing the focus() command from:
     window.open(...).focus();
   Ad Muncher now doesn't remove the window.open section as well.
 - Lots of bug fixes to the tag removal code.
 - When replacing html tags, Ad Muncher now doesn't use <!!!!!>
   replacement tags, instead using "<b ...space... ></b>" to avoid
   problems with validation.
 - Changed <font size=1> replacement to just <small> - not exactly
   the same but prevents having to decide whether to use single
   or double quotation marks to again avoid validation problems.
 - Fixed bug where under certain circumstances the last entry in the
   custom filter list could have its last character removed.
 - Fixed bug in tag removal when certain removed tags were
   immediately preceded by html comment tags ("<!-- -->"), causing
   the comment-end tag to be extended to "--   ...   >",
   invalidating it.
 - Javascript interpretation now correctly handles:
   document.forms[0][0].focus();
   (and other structures with double brackets).
 - Fixed bug where under certain conditions IP Scramble proxy
   connection fields weren't added to scrambled connection requests.
 - Ad Muncher now correctly handles HTTP "100 Continue" replies.
 - Fixed occasional misinterpretation of HTTP replies if multiple
   headers were received within the same packet.
 - Fixed removal of focus() commands with no prefix (ie: "self."
   implied).
 - Popup removal now correctly deals with:
   xxx = window.open;
   xxx("annoyingpopup.html");
 - OnUnload popup removal now correctly deals with:
   <body onunload="if (varname) open("popup.html");">
 - Fixed problem where SetTimeout/SetInterval instructions wouldn't
   be properly analyzed if they directly followed a javascript
   comment with a single-character crlf (0x0a) seperating them and
   no white space.
 - Reply interpretation now correctly deals with:
   Content-type: text/css
 - <img filtering now also handles "<image" tags.
 - Fixed interpretation of \n newline markers in document.write
   commands (could sometimes cause problems when single-line javascript
   comments were present in scripts being written to a page).
 - Popup removal now correctly deals with:
   top.open("badpopup.htm");  and  self.open("badpopup.htm");
 - Implemented workaround to problem where Ad Muncher would prevent
   DVArchive from functioning correctly - was caused partly because
   Ad Muncher reverts connections to HTTP 1.0, and partly because
   DVArchive expects chunked encoding.
 - Fixed memory leak in configuration import/export routines.
 - Fixed misinterpretation of "OnLoad();" (ie: calling a function
   named "onload").
 - Implemented checks to prevent custom filter list from being reset
   when the disk was full; also added warning to user when this occurs
   and changes can't be saved.
 - Slightly changed the "AdMch" replacement text so it extends with "a"s
   to encompass the full length of the replaced text (instead of the
   previous white-space replacement), ag: AdMchaaaa="text";  done to
   prevent problems when replacing a variable in a space-delimited field,
   eg: onload without enclosing quotation marks.
 - Fixed bug where 468x60 gif/jpeg detection wouldn't be disabled when
   Ad Muncher's filtering was turned off.
 - Installing two different versions of Ad Muncher, with both
   installations requiring a reboot, now behaves such that only the
   latest version is loaded after reboot (unlike previously where
   the version loaded was picked largely at random).
 - Javascript interpretation now correctly handles:
   function window.onload(){..}
   function document.onmousedown(){..}
   function document.onmouseover(){..}
   etc
 - More enhancements to the overlap correction; tag interpretation will
   now accept certain other tags as acceptable ends, eg:
   <a href=...>link text</td></tr></table>  (no </a>)
   this should result in faster loading on a lot of pages as it's now
   not waiting to find a matching tag.
 - Fixed race condition in startup code which could allow two copies of
   Ad Muncher to load on startup if they were both run simultaneously
   (for example when there are duplicate startup entries in the HKLM/HKCU
   hives).
 - Modified HTTP reply processing so that it now will insert a
   "Connection: close" header if the reply does not contain a connection
   field or a content-length field, and is a reply code which may have
   a content body (ie: not 1xx/204/304).  This is to avoid a problem
   we've had with certain servers when they try to give HTTP 1.0 replies
   (and apparently leave bits out).
 - Prevented Ad Muncher from binding listening sockets to certain ports
   to avoid some braindead detection systems from detecting it as a
   trojan (eg: reportedly Norton Internet Security 2003).
 - More improvements to javascript function removal, in particular those
   which are present in document.write tags and span several lines and
   document.write calls.
 - Fixed reply interpretation so as to also account for any unicode-
   encoding prefixes at the start of documents.
 - In "saved bandwidth" counter changed "Kb" and "Mb" to "KB" and "MB",
   I'm 100% sure no one actually mistook the readings as being reported
   in megabits/kilobits but hey, people complained ;-)
 - Fixed crash when attempting to reconstitute full URL of certain sites.
 - Fixed interpretation of:
   <tag option="text""> (with hanging quotation mark)
 - Fixed misinterpretation of relative paths when host document's URL
   contained CGI strings.
 - Fixed page stalling under certain conditions when requests are
   prevented from downloading.
 - Fixed filtering problems when tabs were present in a custom filter
   entry, causing only the part before the tab to be matched against.
 - API patching system can now properly deal with far jumps/calls preceded
   by nops.
 - Option to remove banners between certain dimensions now functions
   regardless of whether the tag contains a "src=" attribute.



Ad Muncher v4.4 Changelog
(Skipping to v4.4 from v4.3d due to the relative effort on this version)
Release date: 30th August 2002

===FEATURES===
 - The patching system has been entirely re-written (again) using a new
   design.  A quick synopsis for anyone who's interested:
   The new system only needs to patch the winsock connect() call and
   redirects the target to a local address, notifying the main Ad Muncher
   process of the original target and thereby routing the connection through
   the main AdMunch.exe process.  As a result you will see
   listening/connecting sockets in the AdMunch.exe process that weren't there
   before, these are simply the result of this mechanism at work.  This
   method completely negates the need for the conservative overlap-correction
   and transfer-end prediction of the previous versions, filtering will not
   only be a lot more reliable but also page stalls should be far less common
   (if present at all).  The connect() patching is also a lot better in
   design this time also, it single-steps through the start of the call
   before repatching the start bytes (to ensure there's no other thread
   stepping through it when it's repatched), and also if possible patches
   three bytes into the call instead of at the start (making allowances for
   the typical stack setup instructions if found).  These measures were
   implemented to fix the problematic crashings of the "Morpheus" p2p sharing
   program, to anyone who's interested in reversing the morpheus protocol,
   set "BPX <socket API address> + 3", as it was also emulating the start
   instructions and jumping three bytes in, in the process jumping smack
   bang into the middle of Ad Muncher's 5-byte far jump instruction, thereby
   crashing it.  The new system fixes this problem, we'll wait and see if it
   causes any others ;-)
   - Note: patching system was later changed during beta testing to a new
     method whereby the jmp patch is installed, but is never written over to
     return to the call, instead the first few instructions of the call are
     emulated just before Ad Muncher jumps back into the API, so there's no
     chance whatsoever of any threading problems - it also saves having to
     load another SEH through the entire call (for the above mentioned single
     step repatch) and allows the stack to remain unmodified - also negating
     the need for another return address hook.  Nice little system.
 - As a result of the new patching system and the inherent abilities thereof
   the following has now been accomplished:
    - HTTP requests are now not stripped down to fit within a given space,
      ie: no header lines will be removed or modified unnecessarily.  As a
      result, many p2p file sharing clients which make use of HTTP requests
      to share files are now working again as they should be.
    - Ad Muncher can now filter sockets reliably on programs which use more
      complex methods of writing-to/reading-from sockets, ie: newer winsock2
      calls or WriteFile etc file calls.
    - The new ability to just jam a whole image in the socket buffer allows
      Ad Muncher to substitute its own image for a requested image when
      required, as a direct result of this, ICQ, Morpheus, Opera, and I'm
      sure many many other programs now have their in-built adverts removed
      like normal web-page adverts.  (yes even the little button advert on
      the top of the ICQ contact list gets the "[AD-MUNCHED]" treatment :-)
      You may need to clear out your respective advert caches in each of
      these programs before the munched images will enter circulation.
    - Significantly reduced CPU usage: previously all filtered content would
      have to pass between the Ad Muncher process and the browsing process
      twice (going to and from the filtering engine) using ReadProcessMemory
      and WriteProcessMemory calls, using the new socket routing system CPU
      usage on a very large HTML and advert intensive page has been measured
      to have dropped from an average 50% with the previous version of Ad
      Muncher to around 7% with v4.4 (measured on duron 700/win2k/56kbps
      dialup averaging 6kb/sec transfer on the HTML).
 - The socket routing system above was changed during beta testing to limit
   the number of listening sockets used (previously a new one was made for
   each socket routed, now a single one is used with queuing and further ones
   as required by either queues filling up or inability to bind to a unique
   source port in the client program) - done primarily to avoid resource
   usage problems under windows 95/98.  Also during beta testing hooks for
   getsockname and getpeername were added to redirect requests to the parent
   admunch.exe process, this fixed problems in some ftp clients for example
   (and likely many other situations) where programs were trying to find
   their own IP address.
 - Substantial changes to the user interface, the custom filter keywords
   are now consolidated into one single list box along with the recent
   lists, and the tabs have been reorganized a little as well.
 - Modified behaviour of IP Scramble feature to function regardless of
   whether Ad Muncher is activated or not (ie: the activate/deactivate IP
   Scramble now works separately to the main Activate flag).  Also later
   modified to work regardless of any exclude entries on a in the custom
   list, it was pointless to do otherwise (as was done before) because
   the socket must be redirected to connect to the proxy =before= the
   exclude list entry can be checked.
 - Entirely new help system (based on a "proper" .hlp file), generated
   dynamically by the AdMunch.dll (so the help file is updated automatically
   along with the rest of the program), still context-sensitive based on
   where you are in Ad Muncher when you click the help button.  Help file
   almost entirely re-written and expanded a bit as well.
   Many thanks to Finn Christiansen for his dandy (and free) Shalom Help
   Maker program, available from:
   http://www.danish-shareware.dk/soft/shelpm/index.html
 - Modified URL scanning code to extrapolate the full URL of each link/src
   using the URL of the containing page, hence now keywords can be used more
   freely and the full URLs will also be reported in the Recent Lists.
 - Modified the popup removal system to utilize complete URLs for popup
   pages (compared to the previous domain-name-only system) - recent popups
   also use the new format.  Your old lists should still work fine with the
   new arrangement as the keywords are searched for within the main URL.
 - Recent lists now allow multi-selections when you're adding to your custom
   lists, just hold <ctrl> and highlight as many entries you want before
   clicking "Add".
 - Extended heuristic popup removal code to scan javascript procedures over
   multiple levels, ie: a page in which function X is executed automatically,
   which then calls function Y which has the popup code in it, will now be
   dealt with properly.  Crikey, why don't we just go license a 3rd party
   javascript interpreter?  probably because it'd drive the Ad Muncher file 
   size through the roof ;-)
 - The exclude list is now also checked before performing any winsock trap
   operations on a process, shouldn't be necessary but if you have problems
   with the patching system knackering an obscure program at least now it's
   possible to exclude it fully.  As a side-effect there's now a warning box
   when you change the target list saying you may need to restart Ad Muncher
   for the changes to take full effect;  this is the effect being referenced,
   the process will still be excluded from filtering before restarting, but
   its winsock APIs will already have been trapped/patched.
 - Added filter option to "Modify HTTP requests to disable caching" at the
   request of a user (though I've been wanting to chuck that in anyway).
   There's apparently more than one major ISP in the world whose
   "transparent" HTTP proxies aren't all that transparent ;-)
 - Ad Muncher now removes frames based on the "src=" keywords, it also
   modifies the rows/cols spec on <frameset tags so the removed frames
   don't leave big empty spaces.
 - The automatic update mechanism now checks for updates once every eight
   days (instead of every time Ad Muncher is launched, as it previously did).
 - Ad Muncher now filters "title=" statements from anchor tags when the
   "Remove status bar modifiers" option is enabled.  Should help on sites
   such as hotbot.com.
 - The registry-based settings have now been transferred into a file along
   with the other custom/server/advanced filter files.  The only remaining
   registry key has also been moved to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER section (as
   opposed to the previous HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) to avoid problems with non-
   administrator access rights.
 - Proxy scanning code now tries to connect the proxies to the Ad Muncher
   server (as apposed to reverse connecting to the Ad Muncher client), this
   should fix a few problems with LAN setups and odd internet connections.
 - Consolidated all socket matrixes used by Ad Muncher's filtering engine
   (about 20 too many ;-) into one large one with queue and age support; this
   will fix a problem with some browsers which make several HTTP requests in
   a row on one socket then wait for the replies, previous versions of Ad
   Muncher would simply adopt the state of the last request - causing
   problems with popup filtering and overlap correction. (later removed, see
   below)
 - Modified overlap correction mechanism to factor in the "Content-Length:"
   field of the HTTP reply, web page stalls appear significantly reduced and
   a general speedup should be noticed.  (note: see below)
 - The above two features were eventually removed in favour of changing the
   "Connection:" parameter to "close", this, in combination with the new
   patching system, makes overlap-stalls impossible, and also makes the
   queuing system on HTTP requests which Ad Muncher was doing previously
   now unnecessary, freeing up a lot of memory and code in the process.
 - The above entry was later rescinded =again=, beta testers were
   expressing concern over how much the new behaviour slowed down browsing
   on high-latency connections, so again I went back and redid the
   persistent connection support code.  This was a =huge= task under the
   new socket routing system, suffice to say the routing code almost doubled
   in size to accommodate it, but it appears to be working a lot faster now
   than even v4.3d could manage.
 - The installer now has modify-on-reboot support for win9x/NTs, it was a
   while coming but now you can uninstall/install with no files left over
   and no need to muck around finding out which program was locking up the
   Ad Muncher dll.
 - Extended midi removal checkbox option to remove wav sound files also.
 - Recent lists now updated on-the-fly, ie: you can keep the Ad Muncher
   window open and new entries will appear as they are filtered.
 - All popup removal system options enabled by default, they haven't been
   causing any problems so I guess it's time we stop making people search for
   them ;-)
 - Modified HTTP request processing to remove the "Accept-encoding" field
   entirely, the previous method used was causing problems with PHP scripts
   returning blank pages. Their code (PHP) is broken, quote RFC 2616, 14.3:
   "If the Accept-Encoding field-value is empty, then only the "identity"
   encoding is acceptable." ("identity" being "no encoding at all, ie: 
   uncompressed plain text), PHP just returns a blank page (also does this
   with encoding: "identity;q=1.0, *;q=0", another acceptable way, and every
   other permutation we could think of), and can only be coerced into no
   encoding by specifying no accept-encoding field whatsoever (though by RFC
   this 'may' allow some servers to return compressed documents, we'll have
   to see if any actually do).
 - The "Remove popups from site" filter category now also applies to the
   URLs of the popups that are opened, a lot of people were contacting me
   confused about how this category worked, and this also allows you to
   remove popups where the source isn't known.
 - Complete review of server-supplied filter entries included for this
   version release.  Duplicates removed, unnecessary data trimmed and
   problematic entries remedied.  Also removed all the server-supplied
   "remove popups from site" entries, as 99% of these are filtered perfectly
   with the new popup filtering code, just make sure you have it enabled.
 - Added instructions for cache purging to the installer; we were getting
   some reports from people saying Ad Muncher wasn't working, usually due to
   their cache settings, so hopefully this should help things a bit.
 - When Ad Muncher notices a request for an image that matches its src
   keyword entries it now modifies the returned file to a small [AD-MUNCHED]
   image as opposed to simply closing the socket and causing a blank [IMAGE]
   box on the page as it did before.
 - Lots of duplicates removed from the server-lists, general clean-up and
   reformatting to suit the new "full-URL-only" filtering system.
 - Modified filtering system with a quick little hack to remove hitbox
   counters without leaving bits of garbage in the page.
 - Added more information to the "Change Browser ID string" option to warn of
   the possible pitfalls of changing the string, caused both myself and a
   Mr. Goldsmid a fair deal of fretting before we realized what was going on
   ;-)
 - Above option was later changed to a forced warning dialog for the user
   when the option was first enabled because nobody was bothering to read
   the "click here for more information" text ;-)
 - Added new filter category, "Remove scripts with text".  Intended to
   subvert "tricky-bugger" scripts trying to hide adverts from Ad Muncher,
   just enter a small snippet from the problematic script and the entire
   thing will be removed.
 - Further to the above, added a similar category: "Remove tables with text", 
   intended for use to remove the typical "enter your email for a free
   newsletter" type adverts, which are usually contained within their own
   table.
 - Added "Restore default list" button to the options/filter targets dialog.
 - The recent items lists are now not initialised until they are actually
   displayed, as more lists were added it was starting to take some serious
   CPU-grunt to load up half a dozen 10kb lists at once, should speed loading
   of the configuration dialog a fair bit.
 - The recent items list now remembers where it was when you last closed the
   configuration window, and returns to there when it's re-opened.
 - The sorting of the new custom list system is now optional (there's a
   check-box to enable/disable it), which in turn enable/disables the "Jump
   to first" drop down menu, a few people didn't like the forced sorting
   during our beta tests ;-)  I didn't like it much myself either.
 - I have now officially removed the custom windows API call resolving system
   Ad Muncher was using, which was introduced a few versions ago in the hopes
   of deterring piracy/reverse engineering of Ad Muncher (at very least it
   made dead listings of it virtually useless).  It was slowing down the
   entire program in general, and at the moment I'd prefer to focus on making 
   Ad Muncher sufficiently good that people won't bother looking for pirate
   cracks for it and will just register out of happiness ;-)  You should
   notice a slight increase in general response time, most noticeably on Ad
   Muncher's configuration window.  Many thanks to f0dder for the initial
   code/idea; it worked perfectly, but looking up the proc address every time
   was making a dent in Ad Muncher's cpu usage, and caching the address and
   using that on subsequent calls was still not as fast as the normal PE
   import table (enough so for me to notice during load time).
 - Finally added a "browse" button to installer to select installation
   directory, and installer now positions itself nicely in the centre of the
   screen.
 - Modified the anti-cache mechanism to also remove cache files from some
   popular ad-ware systems, as a result many programs which contain adverts
   are now filtered reliably.
 - IE Script debugging is now disabled when Ad Muncher is installed, this was
   removed in v4.3 but it really is necessary.  Also included a new
   "Suppress Internet Explorer script debugging" option, which automatically
   kills off the notices which can't be turned off under IE 4.0
 - Made RasApi calls resolve at runtime so Ad Muncher still loads properly
   under windows NT 4 - the calls used just check if a connection is active
   before trying automatic updates (to avoid connection dialogs to the user).
 - The "Recent programs with HTTP content" list is now "Recent programs with
   outbound connections"; this allows you to more easily exclude/include
   programs with non-http content, such as port scanners, which may have
   problems with Ad Muncher running.
 - Changed the timeout on proxy scanning from 15 to 5 seconds; noone would
   really want to wait 15 seconds for a server to connect while browsing.
 - Extended right-click disabling code removal option to encompass all mouse
   interference, including pages which interfere with the ability to highlight
   text.
 - At the request of users, added another option to the popup removal section
   to remove popups from OnMouseOver events, I still have never seen this being
   used anywhere on real pages (only ever on popup removal program test pages)
   but if these pages make Ad Muncher look bad I guess I have to include the
   option ;-)
 - Extended proxy scanner so that it also checks whether each proxy is totally
   anonymous, discarding them when they're not and notifying the user.  Also
   added a "proxies verified" counter and a "Stop here" button for when you
   don't want to wait for the entire list to be scanned.
 - Added "Pause" checkbox to recent items list, surprisingly enough, it pauses
   the list and stops it from automatically refreshing while checked.
 - Modified HTTP reply interpretation code such that if no content-type field
   is present then it will examine the content of the reply itself for html
   content.  Adverts on some ebay pages (and many other sites) should now be
   removed reliably.
 - URL interpretation now interprets hex tags, eg: %3f, and converts any "safe"
   ones to their real characters before filtering them and adding to the recent
   items list.
 - Extended filter targets system to allow for targeting of specific ports as
   well as programs.
 - Added new "Void ALL 468x60 images" option.
 - Modified allocation system so it shrinks the allocated space when not in
   use.  Ad Muncher should now return to around 4mb memory usage when idle.
 - Modified IP Scramble proxy scanner to use the POST method for testing rather
   than the GET method it was using before due to proxies which would accept
   the latter type but then return errors when people submitted forms.
 - Modified IP Scramble test code to ignore spaces and tabs in the test list.
 - Added user-definable delay when launching Ad Muncher automatically on
   startup - some people were experiencing filtering failures when Ad Muncher
   installed its hook immediately on startup, the exact cause still evades us
   but delaying loading a few seconds seemed to fix the problem.
 - Added caching system for opcode length calculations - Ad Muncher needs to
   find the opcode length of certain instructions in order to patch effectively
   and uses an int 1 trace to find them, but this caused certain debuggers to
   trigger - caching the found sizes prevents this system from being used more
   than once (under normal conditions).
 - The import/export system's "All other configuration options" now really saves
   and loads ALL the configuration options, not just the checkbox options.
 - The "Change HTTP referrer" option now also nullifies "document.referrer" tags
   in javascripts too.
 - Exclude list is now checked when any filter entry is matched against a URL
   (eg: in achors/srcs/popup urls/etc), so you can have a "src keyword" filter
   with the text "/ad/advert", and an exclude entry of "www.site.com/ad/advert",
   so that the filter then matches against "www.bob.com/ad/advert", but won't
   trigger against "www.site.com/ad/advert".
 - The IP Scramble proxy scanner was rewritten from scratch, it now not only
   sports a shiny new layout, but also allows for multiple connections and
   user-definable timeouts.
 - The "Prevent automatic refreshes" option now only affects refreshes which
   reload the current page, and not refreshes which load another URL.
 - Modified overlap correction code to properly interpret nested <table <script
   etc tags, also increased maximum filter size from 16kb to 32kb.  Removal of
   scripts/tables based on keywords is now far more reliable; for example the
   sponsored link boxes on google.com can now be removed perfectly with just
   the remove-tables entry "sponsored link".
 - The "Suppress Internet Explorer script debugging" option now is disabled
   when Ad Muncher is disabled (ie: red cow icon).
 - All listview controls on the configuration dialog are now sized using place-
   holder controls on the dialog; this should prevent placement problems on
   some systems where the dialog is resized before it's fully initialised (eg:
   by some visual aid programs, etc).
 - The custom/server listviews now have their "category" column automatically
   sized to fit all categories into the list with the system's selected font,
   and the "keyword" column is now stretched so the columns fill the list
   completely (and when the window is resized also).
 - Web bug removal code now only removes web bugs which are retrieved from a
   different host than the page is being served from; this condition is
   reliably present in most real web bugs and this should prevent it from
   interfering with some simple spacing images.
 - Modified background sound removal to removal all bgsound tags regardless
   of whether wav/midi filename was found or not (still checks for filenames
   on embed tags though).
===BUGS===
 - Many *many* minor filtering bug fixes, many thanks to the people who are
   reporting odd-looking pages; please keep the reports coming :-)
   especially ShannoW, my lord, your problem site reports are amazing (and
   somewhat depressing ;-).
 - Fixed lots of small bugs in Ad Muncher's user interface, the recent lists
   now maintain your selection while they are updated (so your selections
   aren't lost when the lists auto-update if pages are loading in the
   background), scroll bars are sized at run-time to appropriate sizes based
   on the maximum recent entry width (yay, no more tiny itty-bitty scroll
   bars to fling back and forth) and lots of other annoying behaviours fixed.
 - Fixed bug in HTML tag removal mechanism, would cause problems when
   incomplete anchor termination tags were present in certain places.
 - Fixed bug with popup removal system, now works correctly on embedded
   .js javascripts (content type would indicate <script> treatment, whereas
   Ad Muncher was waiting for a <script> tag in each file).
 - Fixed the proxy usage code so selecting a proxy for automatic updates now
   actually works, and also works on the retrieval code for advanced filter
   and IP Scramble lists.
 - Fixed bug with Ad Muncher's child DLL instances not deallocating their
   resources properly when Ad Muncher was closed (sometimes (rarely) this
   would cause crashes in random processes in the system when Ad Muncher was
   closing).
 - The advanced filter dialog now doesn't apply a lowercase-only filter to
   the replacement text in advanced filters entered by the user (lower case
   is still needed in the match text though as the filtering occurs after the
   entire page has been converted to lower case).
 - Enhanced nullify routine to avoid scripting errors moreso, now accounts
   for javascript spacers (" + ") when removing script tags, so the banner
   tag is placed through the spacers appropriately.
 - Made several modifications to Ad Muncher to make it more hotmail-friendly,
   for example the hide-referrer option doesn't take affect within hotmail's
   pages (as they rely on the referrer for some functions), also made some
   modifications to the popup removal code so it doesn't interfere with
   composing messages.
 - Overlap correction algorithm now focuses on returning as much of a packet
   as possible without jeopardizing filtering (as opposed to focusing purely
   on HTML alignment).  Some users may notice far fewer pages "stalling", or,
   more accurately, fewer instances of Ad Muncher not being able to fit all
   the leftover data into the final socket receive call ;-)
 - Fixed bug whereby all pages would be excluded from filtering if a blank
   line was present in your exclude list.
 - Fixed problem which would prevent the spooler system on Epson printers
   from functioning correctly (printing would fail), apparently their
   software didn't like the hook type Ad Muncher was using.  Changed it to
   a different type and the affected systems are now printing properly again.
 - Fixed bug with advanced filter engine only filtering the match text once
   per packet - it now behaves as would be expected.
 - Modified tag removal code to avoid appearances of "<>" in the body of a
   filtered page (these would not show in Opera, my preferred browser, hence
   why I didn't originally notice).
 - Implemented new fault trapping system with full procedure state logging
   and backtracking, much easier on our poor bug-fixing minds.
 - Fixed bug in QAllocFree (one of our new memory alloc procs) that was
   causing a fault under certain conditions (esp on launch of NewsBin).
 - Fixed bug in Nullify routine which would cause a website or two to be
   corrupted (though if people coded javascript with anywhere near official
   syntax the Nullify routine would never have problems ;-)
 - Fixed bug in self.focus removal code, far more offending pages now 
   corrected correctly.
 - Fixed several problems with Ad Muncher terminating unexpectedly.
 - Fixed bug with Ad Muncher crashing when a person clicked "Save" on an
   advanced filter which hadn't been created yet, ie: to make a new filter
   you need to click "new" then modify it from there.
 - Fixed bug with HTTP request version being reverted to "v0.1" instead of
   "v1.0", would cause occasional "Malformed request" errors from web
   servers;  little indian byte ordering bug ;-)
 - Fixed generalized bug in Ad Muncher's Find() routine, when used in the
   context of finding options within tags it now checks the characters
   preceding the found option, this avoids problems with certain options
   appearing within the URLs within tags.
 - Fixed bug in the tag removal code, pages which used tag obfuscating
   mechanisms would sometimes have stray characters left inside the body
   of the page.
 - The nullify routine now accounts properly for inverted commas within
   javascript commands (ie: nested operations are removed properly).
 - Fixed buffer overflow bug in popup removal code (was caught by the new
   buffer check code)  No danger was ever present as Ad Muncher's buffer
   bounds checks are done after each large transfer before anything else,
   it simply logged the buffer details and closed itself before any
   further action was taken.
 - Fixed another bug in the nullify code, this time to do with removal of
   code which wasn't correctly terminated with semicolons, Ad Muncher now
   isn't quite as picky.
 - Fixed popup removal code to account for a few more javascript directives,
   eg: return functionname();  etc
 - Extended tag removal code to take into account many other ways of
   terminating anchor tags, eg: the end of div tags, and a few others.
   Should stop formatting problems on a quite few pages.
 - Modified popup removal code so it doesn't rely on the web server
   identifying which .js files are actually javascripts.
 - Updated HTTP reply interpreting code to accommodate idiot servers who use
   single-byte crlfs  (contrary to RFC).
 - Fixed memory leak from using config dialog, Ad Muncher should now idle with
   around 3mb of memory usage under most conditions - except if it has attempted
   an automatic update or user-initiated update of the proxy list/adv filter list
   - this happens because using the gethostbyname function immediately leaks
   between 2 and 3 mb of mem on my system (and others I tested) with apparently
   no easy workaround - the only one I could figure was manually deallocating the
   block the hostent structure was returned in from my code (the actual block on
   my system was allocated through a HeapAlloc call - so it obviously could be
   freed, but finding the heap handle would make it either overly complex or very
   platform/version-specific)  it would likely break easily if Microsoft changes
   the way the block is allocated.  So yup, 3mb without updates, around 5mb with
   them ;-)
 - Fixed crash when an advanced filter was saved with no match text.
 - Fixed behaviour of right-click menu on taskbar icon when double right
   clicking (to enable/disable filtering) menu now disappears as it should.
 - The window resize code now doesn't interfere with the vertical height of
   combobox controls and listbox headers, so when you resize a window with a
   drop-down list it doesn't make it unusable, and the listbox headers on the
   custom list don't enlarge to cover the top entry.
 - The "Add" dialog for the recent lists now resizes correctly.
 - The "Automatically launch ad muncher on startup" option now creates the
   windows\currentversion\run key if it doesn't exist - as opposed to just
   trying to open it and failing if it doesn't exist.
 - The automatic update code was rewritten from scratch - this was by
   far the oldest and buggiest section of code in the entire program
   and was very much in need of cleaning up - should fix occasional
   crashes when retrieving advanced filters/proxy lists, and also cuts
   down the size of the installer by a kb or two due to far neater code
   :-)
 - Fixed crash when the internal CharLower function was called with ecx == 0
   (loop decreased it to -1 and it tried to loop about 4 billion times ;-)
 - When you hit the "Reset" button on the recent lists, the horizontal scroll
   bar on the list is reset also.
 - Fixed bug in Ad Muncher's handling of comment tags (<!-- -->) in removed
   advert html, fixes damaged content on gocollect.com
 - Fixed bug where downloads of images would stall if you were downloading a
   gif or jpeg file which was under 1024 bytes in size and which had a URL
   matching one of your exclude entries.
 - Fixed misinterpretation of "Proxy-connection: keep-alive" proxy headers
   resulting in filtering lapses.
 - Changed the default settings so the "OnMouseOver events" option on the 
   popup removal section of Ad Muncher's config window defaults to off instead
   of on; discovered it can cause problems on some sites which use popup
   drop-downs that appear when the mouse is hovered over a menu section.
   I've still yet to find a site which generates "real" popups triggered by
   OnMouseOver events - I've only ever seen it on anti-popup software test
   pages ;-)
 - Fixed bug in interpretation of javascript comments; Ad Muncher would not
   detect the end of a script if the </script> tag immediately followed a
   comment ("//") - bug was causing problems submitting to ebay and
   getting maps from mappoint.msn.com.
 - The user-agent replacement code now doesn't replace the user agent field if
   it contains the string "LiveUpdate" - as doing so would cause flashfxp to
   have problems updating itself.
 - Fixed bug in advanced filters where if you had two filters named "bob" and
   "bob2" Ad Muncher would not display the match/replacement text for bob2
   correctly (rep cmpsb was not including the null character).
 - Clicking the "about" option in the right-click status bar icon menu now
   works correctly even when the configuration window is already open.
 - Changed from HeapAlloc to GlobalAlloc to prevent crash when closing certain
   programs (eg: the game Deus X) - it seems that these programs have some kind
   of automatic heap deallocation system, whatever happens by the time Ad Muncher
   tries to deallocate its buffers the pointers are no longer valid, GlobalAlloc
   at least doesn't crash with invalid handles ;-)
 - Modified filtering engine's referrer-change code so it doesn't take effect
   on any yahoo.com pages (as these pages often don't load properly when the
   referrer is changed).
 - Fixed interpretation of http replies so no space characters are assumed
   after each header field; fixes misinterpretation of content length on a
   few sites (eg: oracle.com).
 - Fixed bug in in-line popup removal, in-line removal would not work at all in
   beta 20, heh, I goofed up a pointer and it was giving up after a single
   character check.
 - The http request interpretation code now doesn't rely on double-byte crlfs
   (interpreting single 0x0a's properly) - fixing stalls in certain clients,
   eg: yahoo chat's java applets.
 - Script interpreter now properly interprets multi-line comments (ie /* */)
 - Nullify routine now properly removes functions of the type:
   foo['text'].function



Ad Muncher v4.3d Changelog
Release date: 19th September 2001

===FEATURES===
 - Extended image/script/iframe src filtering to include scanning object,
   embed and applet tags (eg: java and flash banners), the embed tag
   scanning also now allows you to remove specific midi tags (as apposed to
   all midis), just add the appropriate entry to your src filter list.
 - Removed limitation in image removal code, images can now be removed
   regardless of whether they are part of an anchor (link) or not.
===BUGS===
 - Fixed minor bug in nullify routine (the one that voids suspect javascript
   commands), several sites no longer reporting script errors in IE.
 - Wrote our own GlobalAlloc replacement to avoid a fault which would crash
   Ad Muncher under Windows 98 SE when in heavy use (eg: high-speed internet
   connection using small packets), a slight speed increase may also be
   noticed.
 - Fixed bug in IPC module involving incorrect maximum buffer sizes, would
   crash Ad Muncher on slower systems (eg: 486 and below) under certain
   conditions; Also implemented stack checksums on all rep-mov instructions.
 - Fixed bug that would corrupt the src filter list from the server-supplied
   lists, also implemented code to reset the lists if the corrupted entry
   is found; would usually only occur if the user had blank custom lists.
 - Added seti@home client to the default filter target list (exclude), 
   Ad Muncher was causing some problems with the seti chunk updates.


Ad Muncher v4.3c Changelog (third minor bug-fix release)
Release date: 12th September 2001

===BUGS===
 - Fixed bug in launching system, occasionally would cause no filtering to
   occur on windows 98 SE or windows ME systems.
 - Created our own wsprintfA function to avoid several bugs caused by
   limitations in the Microsoft version (user32.dll) under certain versions
   of windows (eg: some early versions limit the length of %s fields to 
   stupidly short lengths).  Ad Muncher communication system now working
   properly on all systems; several other systems using the new function
   also a little more bullet-proof.


Ad Muncher v4.3b Changelog (second minor bug-fix release)
Release date: 11th September 2001

===BUGS===
 - Fixed major bug in new launching system, if Ad Muncher were launched on
   a system without winsock 2 installed, it and every other program on the
   system would crash simultaneously (quite a spectacular crash really).
   Implemented appropriate checks.
 - Modified automatic-update mechanism to work in its own thread - problems
   arose when programs like Zone Alarm would delay socket calls resolution
   (pending user acceptance) in the update system initialisation; Ad Muncher
   would normally pause socket filtering while this was taking place, hence
   Ad Muncher and Zone Alarm would block each other, locking the system.


Ad Muncher v4.3a Changelog (bug-fix release)
Release date: 8th September 2001

===BUGS===
 - Fixed bug in patching memory allocation, some programs would crash while
   Ad Muncher was loaded (specifically when the program made 256 or more
   sequential winsock calls before the first one resolved).
 - Bug in new overlap system would cause some very short pages to lose
   the last quarter or so of their transmission.  A small number of pages
   (mainly consisting of pages with small frame files, for example) were
   affected.
 - Optimised memory allocation for socket call working buffers, footprint
   reduced significantly.
 - Fixed bug in the Ad Muncher communication system, people using v4.3 are
   strongly advised to upgrade as some messages to our staff are lost
   depending on the system used.
 - Removed cookies from the cull list for "savage" mode, also the
   content-length field of POST requests.  Some web-based email sites now
   working again.
 - Fixed adult-image detection code, many false positives corrected.
 - Fixed bug in new popup removal system caused by too restrictive maximum
   size on javascript function names, some news sites (eg: CNET, TechTV,
   etc) are now free of problems.


Ad Muncher v4.3 Changelog
(skipped straight to v4.3 from v4.21 due to amount of work on this release)
Release date: 31st August 2001

===FEATURES===
 - Major overhaul of launching mechanism to finally get rid of most browser
   compatibility problems, Ad Muncher now runs in its own process and does
   not automatically launch with browsers.  It also now by default filters
   all HTTP transfers from any program on your computer (obviously only
   affecting things when something matches the custom/server advert lists).
 - New installer rewritten from scratch, hopefully easier to use and more
   reliable.
 - Adapted new launching mechanism to work with other non-browser programs,
   eg: advert windows and information windows in instant messengers etc.
 - Memory footprint reduced significantly.
 - Changed javascript command removal code so it no longer triggers script
   error alerts under Internet Explorer.  Script debugging is hence no
   longer disabled on install.
 - Improved overlap correction algorithm significantly, problems with
   adverts being removed inconsistently on highly fragmented internet
   connections appear to be aided a great deal by this.
 - Adapted HTTP request monitoring to filter the URL of the requests, this
   is integrated automatically with your current custom/server lists and
   simply disables any image requests which might have been missed in the
   HTML filtering (eg: if the HTML were obfuscated with piles of javascript).
   As a side effect this also means that non-html adverts such as
   advertising windows in some programs are now able to be disabled.
 - Implemented exclude list feature.
 - Implemented new popup removal system, using basic heuristics to
   determine if an open() command will execute automatically or not.
 - Added option to specify the referrer when enabling the "Disable HTTP
   referrer when changing domains" checkbox.
 - Implemented new Ad Muncher Communication System, basically an integrated
   email system tailored to user feedback, for example has option to export
   and include your current ad muncher configuration with certain error
   reports/queries.
 - Implemented necessary code to make all windows properly resizable
   (ie: all child controls are resized appropriately as well), people may
   scoff at how long this took to get around to, but it's a pain to code
   this particular behaviour in win32asm.
 - Introduced new "savage" mode into HTTP request filter to avoid occasional
   problems with corrupted requests; automatically enabled when insufficient
   space is present in the request to add required fields, for example, the
   fields for IP Scramble, or the user-agent replacement requested by the
   user (if it is larger than the one present my default).  Savage mode will
   remove non-essential fields, eg: language and regional indicators,
   specific accept rules, and cookies if required.
 - Re-worked the registration reminder screen so it doesn't flicker anymore,
   also designed a new image which is a little easier on the eyes.
 - Modified referrer-altering code to use only the primary domain name
   (eg: domain.com in www.domain.com) when checking if the referrer is from a
   different domain.
===BUGS===
 - Fixed bug with some form posts being corrupted under netscape browsers.
 - Fixed bug with javascript alert removal code, many pages experienced
   minor formatting problems.
 - Fixed many small bugs (especially in IP Scramble code/proxy test
   mechanism), changed proxy scan timeout from 10 to 15 seconds.
 - Fixed several annoying bugs in the fault trapping system (eg: two trap
   notices could be displayed simultaneously if multiple threads use the
   same code).
 - Fixed bug in server-file retrieval code (which retrieves the advanced
   server lists/proxy lists when the user clicks the update/retrieve
   buttons) to avoid problem with Ad Muncher's main dialog and taskbar icon
   spontaneously disappearing if browser traffic filtering occurred while
   retrieving the files.
 - Fixed many (many) minor bugs in the send/receive filter code.
 - Fixed bug in the code which checks whether the "Change user-agent to:"
   text has changed from default (it would not save it if it was thought to
   be the default "Ad Muncher vx.x" one), would sometimes detect it as
   unchanged default when it had been.
 - Fixed bug in javascript command nullifier (ie: the bit that replaced
   them with void();), some pages (many forums apparently) were affected
   by the bug.
 - Fixed problem in several dialogs where content could be lost from edit
   boxes when saving configuration.  Note to other programmers:
   GetDlgItemTextA will truncate nMaxCount to 16 bits (max 0FFFFh) on some
   windows 9x systems before parsing, so specifying 10000h as the max would
   result in an interpreted maximum of 0, not documented but was causing 
   this particular problem.



Note: This change log was not initiated until v4.3 (due to many user
requests for one).  Entries will describe changes made including and
since v4.3.