Author Topic: Pop up stopper (Read 1117 times)

Speznaz · « **Reply #15 on:** November 12, 2004, 11:32:42 PM »

Mozilla firefox, the best

agflit22 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 13, 2004, 01:48:43 AM »

sounds like ur already infected if ur runnin shredder... go to "TrendMicro", and run the free online scan... it works..VERY well. I also use A-squared for malware.. as well as ADW and Spybot... try the trendmicro scan..

ccvi · « **Reply #17 on:** November 13, 2004, 04:30:03 AM »

"already" infected? What's the average time till infection of unprotected windows boxes connected to the net? 10 seconds?

ALF · « **Reply #18 on:** November 13, 2004, 05:26:39 AM »

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Originally posted by ccvi
"already" infected? What's the average time till infection of unprotected windows boxes connected to the net? 10 seconds?

WIth the major critical exploits being hammered against IE every week or two, it doesnt take long. All the IE user has to do is go to a website dedicated to installing spyware/adware. These types of sites are VERY VERY common, and do everything they can to come up very high on Google and Yahoo type search engines, by putting up popular keywords and linking to thousands of other like minded sites.

If you NEVER go outsite of known sites, and you never type in URLs manually (cause many of these site are very close to popular site so thousands go there in error by mistyping google or gamespot or whatever) then your IE will probably serve you ok......problem is the exploits come so fast that MS cant keep up and most exploits are in use infecting millions of PCs a week or two before a fix comes out.

Besides....tabed browsing rocks!

ccvi · « **Reply #19 on:** November 13, 2004, 05:51:22 AM »

Even if you don't even open your browser...

http://isc.sans.org/survivalhistory.php

Ghosth · « **Reply #20 on:** November 13, 2004, 09:07:56 AM »

Firefox rules!

Yes I have spyware S & D, yes I have adaware SE, use them maybe twice a year.

Rest of the time Firefox takes care of things.

And the thunderbird email client automaticly sorts the junk mail. MAJOR plus in my book.

BlauK · « **Reply #21 on:** November 13, 2004, 10:09:45 AM »

One more vote for Mozilla Firefox!

Works great and one can even disable annoying adds from pages (in addition to pop-ups).

I used to have Netscape and Naviscope. Did not get pop-ups with those either, but adds were difficult to get rid of.

68DevilM · « **Reply #22 on:** November 13, 2004, 10:11:15 AM »

if you do a search on the web for free pop up stopper youll find the one and only original free pop up stopper:)

Widewing · « **Reply #23 on:** November 13, 2004, 10:31:19 AM »

I use Panicware's pop-up stopper. Haven't seen a pop-up since I installed it.

My regards,

Widewing

68DevilM · « **Reply #24 on:** November 13, 2004, 10:50:05 AM »

yeah thats the one!

i use to use it until microsoft came out with winxp2 service pack, it has its own firewall and pop-up protection

Xjazz · « **Reply #25 on:** November 13, 2004, 11:05:14 AM »

Votes for Firefox and Thunderbird

Widewing · « **Reply #26 on:** November 13, 2004, 11:29:06 AM »

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Originally posted by 68DevilM
yeah thats the one!

i use to use it until microsoft came out with winxp2 service pack, it has its own firewall and pop-up protection

I'm gonna let XP Service Pack 2 gestate for a while. It will have more holes in it than Scott Peterson's alibi.

My regards,

Widewing

68DevilM · « **Reply #27 on:** November 13, 2004, 12:02:11 PM »

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Originally posted by Widewing
I'm gonna let XP Service Pack 2 gestate for a while. It will have more holes in it than Scott Peterson's alibi.

My regards,

Widewing

should have also mentioned that i have the fire wall,pop-up and anything else i dont need running, off.

Panzzer · « **Reply #28 on:** November 13, 2004, 03:48:12 PM »

If you haven't tested it yet, do it now.

RookieCAF · « **Reply #29 on:** November 13, 2004, 03:59:48 PM »

Spywareblaster is a nice little program to, once you get rid of the stuff, this will also help keeping it out.

Free also..