OT: Stopping Popups

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 7:13 am

Why is it that most of the popups I get are advertisments for products for stopping popups?

Az, is this one of your eternal stairs things again?

SteveK · Post by **SteveK** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 7:45 am

Martin Milner wrote:Why is it that most of the popups I get are advertisments for products for stopping popups?

Isn't that annoying? For awhile I was getting about 10 of those every time I did anything on the computer. They were the only popups I was getting. It's kind paying protection.

Steve

Marko · Post by **Marko** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 7:51 am

i was about to recommend Mozilla as a good free browser with a pop-up stopper built in, then i realised i have no idea what im talking about. it did sort me out however. some really odd stuff was popping up whenever i used the other browser

AaronMalcomb · Post by **AaronMalcomb** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:03 am

I downloaded the Google toolbar which has a pop-up blocker. It works pretty good and it's free.

Click on this text to go to the website.

Cheers,
Aaron

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:15 am

As mentioned, Mozilla is a good browser with the ability to block most pop-ups.

Another possibility is to block them with a firewall. I recommend everyone run with some kind of firewall anyway; the one I personally use at home, Zone Alarm Pro, has features for blocking both popups and in-page ads.

--James

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:17 am

And those spam emails that say, "Tired of Spam?"

I delete them without looking. Maybe they're selling a recipe book.

Best wishes,
Jerry

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:32 am

Opera is another good choice. You can turn off all popups except for the ones you request by clicking on a Javascript link.

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:46 am

AaronMalcomb wrote:I downloaded the Google toolbar which has a pop-up blocker. It works pretty good and it's free.

Click on this text to go to the website.

Cheers,
Aaron

Excellent, thanks Aaron - gave it a quick test drive - 3 popups stopped in the first ten seconds.

I didn't actually expect a solution, I was just having a moan. Once again I bow to the wisdom of the Chiffers!

Cheers, Martin

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:48 am

There was some outcry in the past about the Google toolbar "calling home", i.e.: telling Google about what sites you visit. I'm not sure if this is still the case; anyone heard about it recently?

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Marko · Post by **Marko** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:50 am

i tried the google toolbar, and lots of stuff got through. although google was behaving very oddly then anyway, maybe they've got it sorted now.

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:22 am

I've had good luck with the Google toolbar. A few popups still get through--maybe one or two a day--but in the 1 1/2 months I've had it, it's blocked 595 popups according to the counter on the toolbar. It's particularly satisfying to hear that little click and to see that tiny yellow "x" every time it stops one of those suckers.

serpent · Post by **serpent** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 10:35 am

One thing you can do to stop a bunch of the popups is to kill the Messenger service, if you're on WinDoze. You have to have Administrator rights to do this in Win2K or XP Pro, but it's easy, and very effective. I get no popups now except those from HTML, and I don't bother to block those, because I don't like "toolbars" from companies with a finger in the pie, who want to know what I'm doing. Besides, I want to know what The Hunger Site is selling - they have some neat stuff from time to time.
Cheers,

serpent

Celtoid · Post by **Celtoid** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 10:35 am

I have this ADBLASTER popup that makes me nuts. And there is another one about the security of my computer, that when it comes up, I have to restart my computer to get rid of it, as it has no way to shut it off. I have a firewall up and still get the adblasters.

Patrick · Post by **Patrick** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 10:41 am

Well, I use Camino on a Mac with OSX and that has a popup blocker function, as well. I like that it doesn't bother to tell me every time it blocks one. I just ignore them because there's no reminder they exist.

And before anyone jumps on Macs, please note that I don't have problems with viruses when everyone else gets infected and frustrated. I also work with a PC at work and have to deal with roughly 3 crashes a week. My Mac has locked up 4 times in over a year. Four. That's all.

Regarding the Google toolbar reporting on visits, I sort of expect software like this to do so. They have to justify their existence somehow. I don't choose to install anything that I suspect will be spyware, and that's why I don't have the Google toolbar on my computer at work.

-Patrick

antstastegood · Post by **antstastegood** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 11:39 am

if you download something called spybot search and destroy, it scans your computer for things that can cause excessive popups and stuff. it is completely free and honest.

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