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Title: pop-up ads
Post by: tapakeg on February 07, 2004, 06:58:25 AM: Man are they annoying. IE is so annoying to use, if i am typing in the address bar, i get interrupted often by pop-up ads. It is almost unusable. I like Netscape 7.1 because it has a pop-up blocker, but so many sights are designed for IE (it's a microsoft world). I have cleaned cache, cookies, have run ad-aware and a spybot and they are still there.
Is it in my computer? (cookies, spyware, etc.?) or is it in conjunction with the website? (ie.. go to this website, you get this pop-up)

And for the record these are normal, family websites I am talking about.

Tapakeg
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: beet1e on February 07, 2004, 07:05:03 AM: Tap - do you have a firewall? You should in this day and age... if you get a good one like Zone Alarm Pro from Zone Labs, it will have a built in popup ad zapper. I have Zone Alarm Pro, and I never get a single pop ad these days.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: tapakeg on February 07, 2004, 07:28:56 AM: wow, cool. I have the free zone alarm, will look into it

thanks

~~Tapakeg~~
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: beet1e on February 07, 2004, 07:38:41 AM: Rgr that, Tap. I just had a look at the website, and I am led to believe that you need the PRO version to suppress popups.

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Kanth on February 07, 2004, 07:45:26 AM: Fer popups

http://toolbar.google.com/
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Dingbat on February 07, 2004, 09:37:44 AM: FWIW, XP service pack 2 updates Internet Explorer with a popup blocker...
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Chairboy on February 07, 2004, 10:10:13 AM: The Google toolbar popup blocker is super, and it's free.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Pfunk on February 07, 2004, 11:16:29 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Chairboy
The Google toolbar popup blocker is super, and it's free.

2nded
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: stiehl on February 07, 2004, 11:38:34 AM: Yahoo also has a toolbar popup blocker. Haven't had a single one since I installed it.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Mighty1 on February 07, 2004, 01:42:44 PM: We use Google's popup blocker for all our PC here at work.

Works very well.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Makarov9 on February 07, 2004, 01:45:28 PM: Make sure you run Ad-Aware every month to get rid of any "behind-the-scenes" installed popups and spyware crap.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/)
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Gunslinger on February 07, 2004, 01:48:13 PM: Got a question....if you have a web page that has a link that is designed to initiate a small pop up in a new window does pop up blocker permit this.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Chairboy on February 07, 2004, 01:50:23 PM: Depends on how they do it. Most popup blockers just block javascript initiated popups, but on occasion a user-clicked popup won't work. To get around this, Google toolbar notifies you when it blocks a popup. With that, you can hit a key and click the link again, then it'll bypass the popup blocking.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Gunslinger on February 07, 2004, 01:56:51 PM: thanks chair. my website uses HTML to create a new window and i was allways curious
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: flakbait on February 07, 2004, 11:00:12 PM: Then again, you could get Firebird from http://www.mozilla.org and have the best of both worlds. Auto pop-up blocker, user-clicked pop-ups work perfectly, loads blindingly fast (both the prog and pages), no "behind the scenes" crap to worry about, and it's free. Though it is a little buggy ATM since it's in BETA. Last time I checked it was v0.7, the same version I'm using now. Works better than Netcrap, and light years better than IE.

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Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Sandman on February 09, 2004, 01:17:27 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Makarov9
Make sure you run Ad-Aware every month to get rid of any "behind-the-scenes" installed popups and spyware crap.

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

Near the bottom right is a link that says "Check for updates now".

If you're not using it, you should be.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: tapakeg on February 09, 2004, 04:28:23 AM: I have installed the google toolbar, it has blocked 1 pop-up. I am getting other pop-ups all the time. I am going to try the yahoo one. I have windows xp fully updated and see no pop-up blocker in IE.

I see a ton of options at download.com, but they all cost money.

any more options?

tapakeg
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Dingbat on February 09, 2004, 07:24:45 AM: The popup blocker in IE will not be available till Service pack 2 comes out...
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Kanth on February 09, 2004, 07:27:23 AM: are these internet explorer popups or are they windows message like popups?

I haven't seen a single popup -- not one-- since I installed google toolbar which makes me think you are getting windows messages and not popups..

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Originally posted by tapakeg
I have installed the google toolbar, it has blocked 1 pop-up. I am getting other pop-ups all the time. I am going to try the yahoo one. I have windows xp fully updated and see no pop-up blocker in IE.

I see a ton of options at download.com, but they all cost money.

any more options?

tapakeg
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Dingbat on February 09, 2004, 07:27:43 AM: By chance it's not a box that you have to click OK to get ride of is it?

Have you disabled the messenger service?

It really sounds like you have spyware on your PC because, my google popblocker has blocked well over 700 popups in 2 months.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Dowding on February 09, 2004, 08:01:18 AM: How about this one: whenever I start IE in my brother's computer, it has some kind of link page as a homepage. Nothing obscene or anything, but everytime I change the homepage in options, and restart, this same page is back as the homepage. Any ideas?

Also, IE has a nasty tendency to lock up and seems to be running slower. When I open the favourites menu and click the link for the Aces High BB, not only does it go to this BBS, but it opens another window with the main HTC site in it (including the animationed intro). Bizarre.

Running XP Pro, fully patched up and PC-cillin firewall/antivirus software.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: lasersailor184 on February 09, 2004, 08:22:14 AM: Run the Adaware. Possibly Spybot too. Each picks up things that the other doesn't.

It's spyware that keeps setting the homepage.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Dingbat on February 09, 2004, 08:24:03 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Dowding
balh blah blad

Definitely spyware...

Goto MSCONIFG --> Startup

You'll probably find the offending application there...

Ad-aware or spybot will help you get rid of it.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Dowding on February 09, 2004, 08:27:45 AM: Thanks.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Sandman on February 09, 2004, 10:00:16 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Dowding
How about this one: whenever I start IE in my brother's computer, it has some kind of link page as a homepage. Nothing obscene or anything, but everytime I change the homepage in options, and restart, this same page is back as the homepage. Any ideas?

Also, IE has a nasty tendency to lock up and seems to be running slower. When I open the favourites menu and click the link for the Aces High BB, not only does it go to this BBS, but it opens another window with the main HTC site in it (including the animationed intro). Bizarre.

Running XP Pro, fully patched up and PC-cillin firewall/antivirus software.

I've noticed a number of different sites that are running some sort of applet, MSNBC, CBS and others. The page appears to just lock up for a minute or more. Can't close it, can't do anything with it all, but eventually whatever it is loads and then the page behaves. It's irritating.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Sandman on February 09, 2004, 10:01:45 AM: Quote
Originally posted by lasersailor184
Run the Adaware. Possibly Spybot too. Each picks up things that the other doesn't.

It's spyware that keeps setting the homepage.

Yeah... there's a nasty one called NetPal or something like that... Every few weeks or so, I'm forced to clean my children's machines of all the stupid stuff they allow to be installed.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Chairboy on February 09, 2004, 10:21:42 AM: Really? What operating system are they running? If they're running Windows 98 or Millenium, that makes sense, but if they are running XP or Windows 2000, you can give them a non-administrator account so they can't install programs. It's a good way to keep the system intact, they don't have access to break stuff.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Dingbat on February 09, 2004, 10:26:32 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
I've noticed a number of different sites that are running some sort of applet, MSNBC, CBS and others. The page appears to just lock up for a minute or more. Can't close it, can't do anything with it all, but eventually whatever it is loads and then the page behaves. It's irritating.

Its probably java kicking in, you might try going to java.sun.com and updating if you haven't in a while...

I noticed a slowdown and realized that I hadn't installed JVM at all after a re-install.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: lasersailor184 on February 09, 2004, 10:37:56 AM: Chairboy. Turn your own account into a non-adminstration account.

Now try to do anything.

Come back in 5 minutes and tell us how much it sucks.
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Sandman on February 09, 2004, 10:39:44 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Chairboy
Really? What operating system are they running? If they're running Windows 98 or Millenium, that makes sense, but if they are running XP or Windows 2000, you can give them a non-administrator account so they can't install programs. It's a good way to keep the system intact, they don't have access to break stuff.

It's 98. It's okay though... if it gets too broken, I just wipe the drive. :)
Title: pop-up ads
Post by: Sandman on February 09, 2004, 10:41:43 AM: Quote
Originally posted by lasersailor184
Chairboy. Turn your own account into a non-adminstration account.

Now try to do anything.

Come back in 5 minutes and tell us how much it sucks.

Yeah.. it does suck, but the alternative is that I get to spend the time and headache fixining it. I've considered going to another OS simply for that purpose. When they start administering their own problems, they can have access to do so.