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3rd October 2003, 09:30 AM
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I have a good fire wall, a good virus scan, and my security is stable on the computer but those blasted pop ups plaque my computer even if I am not going into a website. 
So does anyone have a good pop blocker that will assist me in stopping this annoying storm of pop up bee's  |
3rd October 2003, 01:27 PM
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Reps: 15 (power: 0) | | might not be what you are wanting, but if you switch to the Firebird browser (formerly Phoenix), it does the perfect job of stopping popups. I have never had a single one since I have used it. 
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3rd October 2003, 02:47 PM
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Depends what type of pop ups they are .... if it is just random website type pop ups then I don't know what to tell you. Run something like Spybot or Ad Aware to make sure there is no spyware on your comp.
If it is those grey boxes that say messenger on them, then there is a workaround in windows that will eliminate those.
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3rd October 2003, 02:59 PM
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Reps: 4,488 (power: 16) | | I agree with whoever said to get Mozilla Firebird as an internet browser. You have the option of putting in websites that you do want to get popups from. It dosn't block the PM popup like some popup stoppers do. Mozilla
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3rd October 2003, 05:05 PM
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Reps: 15 (power: 0) | | Yeah, that is one of the reasons I love firebird. I can tell it where I want to get popups from (so forums can notify me of PM's), but it will block any and all popups that I do not allow. It's wonderful.
To block things like MSN popup, here is a quick how-to I found from another site. It's probably one of the best and free ways to do it, without any third party software. To get rid of these pop ups, you'll need to disable the "Messenger Service", go to the
Control Panel, choose Administrative Tools (if you're using XP, you may have to click Classic
View on the left). Double-click Services, and Scroll down to "Messenger", select it,
right-click and then choose Properties. Under startup type, choose disabled and then choose
the 'Stop' button. After the service is stopped, click OK.
On a little side note, Firebird also allows tabbed browsing and skins. Very customizable. Here is a resource site for it (skins, plug-ins, links, screenshots, etc). http://texturizer.net/firebird/index.html
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3rd October 2003, 05:55 PM
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Reps: 61 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by job24 I have a good fire wall, a good virus scan, and my security is stable on the computer but those blasted pop ups plaque my computer even if I am not going into a website.
So does anyone have a good pop blocker that will assist me in stopping this annoying storm of pop up bee's
Hmmm... I've been using the blocker that comes with my Earthlink account so I'm not up to speed on various blocker apps at the moment. I saw that the Google tool bar is offering a blocker but I have no info on it beyond that. If you go to Google and do a search and review on commercial pop-up blockers I bet you will get a very large list.
Be careful with spy-ware detection programs, you may want to get a registry tool to save a snap shot of your registry first. You may also want to run the registry tool after removing spy-ware apps to get rid of the junk left behind. I happen to have 0 adware spy programs on any of my puters at this point.
Yes as stated above those nasty little grey boxes that pop up (even off-line) are nasty. Those instructions should dissable it.  |
3rd October 2003, 06:06 PM
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | | | Zonealarm pro is the best firewall in my opinion cuz of its small size and effective blocking of intrusion.. and it also a great pop up blocker |
3rd October 2003, 06:49 PM
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3rd October 2003, 07:24 PM
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Reps: 123 (power: 0) | | Popup Stopper works good. http://www.panicware.com/
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3rd October 2003, 10:32 PM
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