Anyone else gettin inundated with Republican popups?

[baby_bear]

Just the past couple of days, I am getting a bunch of popups that are RNC commercials. And they are not pleasant! They are in my face and I can apparently do nothing but "close" them.

grrrrrrrrrr

s_m

[JasonDeter]

1. You have to run a spy sweeper every couple of days.

Its free and fixes the problem. The program is called Spysweeper. Run a google on it.

[earthman dave]

2. I think you can buy popup-blocking software

Yes, that's right, I said "buy". Not that I enjoy laughing at another's pain, but HA! Get linux! :)

On Edit: Apparently it's free. unHA!

[OneBlueSky]

3. why are you still allowing popups on your computer? . . .

there are tons of popup stoppers out there . . . you should get one . . . go to http://www.panicware.com and check out Pop-Up Stopper . . . it's free . . .

[Zomby Woof]

4. nope!

Get Panicware's Pop-up Stopper for free from PC Magazine's site.

Also get Ad-Aware, and run that after getting the pop-up stopper. Both are free!

:toast:

[tobius]

5. my browser

lets me turn them off. Safari (inc w/ OS X) for the mac.

[peabody]

6. There are several free browsers

that will prevent popup ads. I use Opera
myself (www.opera.com). Mozilla's Firebird
now called FireFox (www.mozilla.org/products)
and Netscape (www.netscape.com) will also block
popup ads. They're fast and free.

[depakid]

7. Whack 'em all with Proxomitron

Best ad busting, pop-up stopping, browser modifying little App I've ever found. Even blocks flash unless you want to click on a little link. Way cool. Requires a little set-up, but well worth the time.

http://www.spamblocked.com/proxomitron/

[Serenity-NOW]

8. With all the virii out there why would anyone run Windows?

Makes no sense at all, linux rocks, Macs are nice too, and once you get past a little learning curve you discover that 1) no viruses and 2) your capabilities reveal Windows for the shabby ripoff that it is. I like Suse since it came ready to roll with office programs and software galore, for free, and even set up my TV card with zilch effort on my part. I don't recommend doing the online install if you are on dialup but for broadband it can't be beat.

Mozilla has a groovy mail thing that eliminates all the spam and popups without any setup which I think is just awesome. I get upwards of 500 emails a day and all the spam is detected and expunged. With Outlook I had to constantly tell it what spam was and that was cumbersome.

If you think it's too scary consider this: my 69 year old mom on heavy rheumatoid meds switched over without a problem. She's still not used to not seeing all the junk mail trying to get her a bigger penis... LOL.

I did have to buy one piece of software so I could run Quickbooks and Visio but that was 40 or 50 bucks. Can't beat linux with a stick.

[Mairead]

9. http://www.messagesubtract.com/

http://www.messagesubtract.com/

It's freeware, made by the AdSubtract people, and seems to work very well.