Author Topic: Pop-ups (Read 353 times)

hblair · « **on:** November 05, 2002, 08:24:14 AM »

pop-up adds that is. How do I get rid of them? I've been getting them for a while now. Whenever I'm dialed up, I get some stupid add pop up every 10-15 minutes. Gimme input fellas.
Thanks.

bounder · « **Reply #1 on:** November 05, 2002, 08:27:30 AM »

zone alarm pro works for me.
http://www.zonelabs.com

Ozark · « **Reply #2 on:** November 05, 2002, 08:35:01 AM »

Ad-aware 5.83

WebWasher

Superfly · « **Reply #3 on:** November 05, 2002, 08:38:17 AM »

I use Panicware's Pop-up Stopper. It's free. http://www.panicware.com

ra · « **Reply #4 on:** November 05, 2002, 08:50:56 AM »

Netscape 7.0 has it built in, as does Mozilla.

Sandman · « **Reply #5 on:** November 05, 2002, 09:03:51 AM »

The Netscape webpage has popups for AOL.

ra · « **Reply #6 on:** November 05, 2002, 09:14:32 AM »

You have to disable pop-ups, which is an option in Netscape 7.0.

Saintaw · « **Reply #7 on:** November 05, 2002, 09:44:58 AM »

Hblair, if you have popups opening before you open a browser window, what you're looking for is that AD Aware soft (link somewhere here above).

You don't even have to surf porn anymore to get those... every site seems to use them nowadays, bleh...

I wonder who looks/clicks on these. It must be working if there are so many...

Octavius · « **Reply #8 on:** November 05, 2002, 09:49:42 AM »

It's just like junk mail... some people ACTUALLY respond or are interested in that crap. The organizations behind the advertising are happy with as much as a 1% return. What a waste of energy

Wotan · « **Reply #9 on:** November 05, 2002, 09:56:34 AM »

you dont any of that stuff you can edit your windows Hosts file to block most of those addies.

As a matter of fact you download a "Hosts" file that has almost all those ips so they will knock out 99% of the pop ups.

Do a google search. I lost the addy for the site. I am sure some else will post it.

gatso · « **Reply #10 on:** November 05, 2002, 10:08:45 AM »

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http://doa2.host.sk/index.htm

Gatso

SOB · « **Reply #11 on:** November 05, 2002, 04:25:59 PM »

Go with pop-up stopper, like Superfly said. Works great, and you can override it by holding down the CTRL key if you are manually opening a second browser window.

SOB

Chairboy · « **Reply #12 on:** November 05, 2002, 04:38:10 PM »

Norton Internet Security 2003 (6.0) has blocks pop-ups, normal ads, ads based on size (eg, banner ad sizes) and also blocks those shockwave based ads that take over your browser for 10-20 seconds on pages like Wired and MSNBC.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #13 on:** November 05, 2002, 05:36:14 PM »

pop up stopper...

sigh.. ask a squaddie

Sandman · « **Reply #14 on:** November 05, 2002, 09:17:48 PM »

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/11/04/BU211419.DTL

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Firms squelching pop-up ads
Online companies find ads can be counter-productive

Finally!