Aces High Bulletin Board

General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: hblair on November 05, 2002, 08:24:14 AM

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: 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. :)

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: bounder on November 05, 2002, 08:27:30 AM

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

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: Ozark on November 05, 2002, 08:35:01 AM

Ad-aware 5.83  (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/)

WebWasher (http://www.webwasher.com/en/products/wwash/download_license.htm)

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: Superfly on November 05, 2002, 08:38:17 AM

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

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: ra on November 05, 2002, 08:50:56 AM

Netscape 7.0 has it built in, as does Mozilla.

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: Sandman on November 05, 2002, 09:03:51 AM

The Netscape webpage has popups for AOL.

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: ra on November 05, 2002, 09:14:32 AM

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

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: Saintaw 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...

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: Octavius 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

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: Wotan 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.

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: gatso on November 05, 2002, 10:08:45 AM

^
|
|

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

Gatso

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: SOB 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

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: Chairboy 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.

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: Wlfgng on November 05, 2002, 05:36:14 PM

pop up stopper...

sigh.. ask a squaddie :)

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: Sandman on November 05, 2002, 09:17:48 PM

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

Quote

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

Finally!

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: Innominate on November 05, 2002, 11:30:50 PM

http://www.mozilla.org

Tabbed browsing + disabled popups makes it far far better than IE.

(Get 1.1, 1.2beta is buggier than hell)

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: Superfly on November 06, 2002, 08:53:28 AM

Quote

Originally posted by SOB
Works great, and you can override it by holding down the CTRL key if you are manually opening a second browser window.


SOB

I didn't know you could do that!  LOL!  I'm always double clicking the icon to temporarily turn it off.  Thanks SOB!  :D

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: Swoop on November 06, 2002, 09:02:01 AM

Aren't you sposed to be working?  Or is all your work done and you're just killin time while HT compiles the new patch?

(http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/extern/626629.jpg)

Title: Pop-ups
Post by: Sandman on November 06, 2002, 09:35:08 AM

Look at the bright side... Superfly obviously wasn't wasting time reading the manual. :)