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Posted by Musik_Fiend on Jun-04-2006 05:41:

attack of the pop up

i was wondering if anybody knew a good program to download to block those annoying pop up ads, i keep getting bombarded with.
help

Posted by KaiLee on Jun-04-2006 05:44:

get mozilla firefox....it has a good pop-up blocker installed and is much better than internet explorer

Posted by rabbitjoker on Jun-04-2006 05:45:

XP-SP2 + Google Toolbar works best.

Albeit there are ways of getting around both if someone is really a keener.

Posted by rabbitjoker on Jun-04-2006 05:47:

quote:
Originally posted by KaiLee
get mozilla firefox....it has a good pop-up blocker installed and is much better than internet explorer

Not to get into an Explorer vs. Firefox debate, but just be aware:

Firefox will not render many websites properly (usually because webmasters are not following W3 standards and are coding their sites to be IE compatible since IE has 80% of browser market share).

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If you decide to use IE - XP-SP2 and Google Toolbar work fine most of the time.

Posted by loca on Jun-04-2006 05:48:

Re: attack of the pop up

quote:
Originally posted by Musik_Fiend
i was wondering if anybody knew a good program to download to block those annoying pop up ads, i keep getting bombarded with.
help

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

(unless they pop up on their own with no browser open, then you may have an ad-ware/spyware problem)

Posted by rabbitjoker on Jun-04-2006 05:49:

Further:

If you are getting a lot of pops, it may be due to ad-ware that has been installed without you knowing.

Install Windows Defender and scan/remove ad-ware and that may also solve some of your problems: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/sec...re/default.mspx

Posted by rabbitjoker on Jun-04-2006 05:50:

Re: Re: attack of the pop up

quote:
Originally posted by loca
(you may have an ad-ware/spyware problem)

Beat me to it. Agreed 100%.

Posted by Musik_Fiend on Jun-04-2006 05:55:

thanks will try the ad ware but already installed google toolbar, have mozilla, and tried yahoo tool bar. so fingers crossed on the adware thing lol

Posted by loca on Jun-04-2006 05:56:

Re: Re: Re: attack of the pop up

quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Beat me to it. Agreed 100%.

Yup i just recently got a pretty tough piece of malware on my pc (complete with browser hijack) which i am still trying to resolve. I thought that was the problem originally when i read the title.

That was my own damn fault however, nothing to do with IE or FF lol. I am, simply, an idiot.

Posted by DigitalMP on Jun-04-2006 06:01:

a good girl loooooves the pop-up.