pop-ups are killing me!!!!

[goddess40]

what do you use to stop them, I can't type a post without being interrupted at least once by the damn things! (One got me by the word once)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

1. switch to Mozilla FireFox!!!

i used to be like you, living under the tyranny and opression of spyware and popups...but not with mozilla anymore!

www.mozilla.com

[dolo amber]

2. AdAware, Spybot, Microsoft's Anti-Spyware tool

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx


Download, install and run...in that order.

Hope that helps! :hi:

[lateo]

3. Switch to Firefox.

And then install the Adblock extension.

And then get updates to Adblock here.
http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/

This is called "filterset G" and it is updated regularly so keep it up to date.

Instructions for installing filterset G are listed.

[aden_nak]

4. Firefox yourself, and then purge yourself.

Cast aside the brutal tyrany of Internet Explorer.

http://www.firefox.com

Exorcize the demons that live resident on your machine.

http://security.kolla.de/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

[3lefts]

5. In defense of IE, it does have an excellent popup blocker now n/t

[aden_nak]

6. Only because alternatives offered one.

Besides, "pop-up blocker" is a misnomer. Third party software blocks pop-ups. A browser can simply prevent them from running in the first place by not executing very specific, easily-identifiable lines of JavaScript.

Actually, the main reason I use Firefox is Tabbed Browsing. Once you browse with tabs, it makes other browsers look like a quaint relic from a former era. Kind of like Windows 3.1.

[3lefts]

7. Good points all...

is it true that you can't use "Windows Update" with Firefox? Seems MS was able to code for that.

[aden_nak]

9. Any sites that require ActiveX or Windows integration need IE.

But really, the base install of IE (5.0) that comes with Win2K is recent enough to do Windows Update. About 1 in 100 sites I go to needs IE for the ActiveX integration. Which is about the only reason that festering boil of code still resides on my machine.

[Dr.Phool]

8. I switched to Firefox

About a month ago, and I haven't had ONE pop-up since then.