POP UP'S-----need help

[Whitmore]

My computer is driving me nuts, pop ups come in by the gillions and I want rid of them, is there a pop up blocker to install or what can I do to rid them ?



cheers, Kevin

 

[Doc Tinker]

Where do you go that gives you so many poppups?



Doc

 

[Whitmore]

Well, I do look where I shouldnt be but that is fun too



I figger that lookin at good lookin girls helps me ... ... ... ..... it certainly dont hurt.



These dern pop ups even come up when I am on the TDR



cheers, Kevin

 

[illflem]

I tried out this one http://www.adsubtract.com/pro/features.html and would have bought it except that my IPS, earthlink, started offering one for free. Tried out some other free ones and wasn't very impressed. Give ad-subtract a try, 30 days free. It will even block out the tdr banner ads if you want.

 

[Whitmore]

Thanks Bill, I will try them.



cheers, Kevin

 

[scbrown]

Go to download.com and try Pop-Up Stopper. Thats what I use and its free.

 

[mdlowry]

Try running Ad-aware by Lavasoft. This program will clean your computer of most of the spyware (new versions always come out).

 

[The patriot]

I try to stay away from the girliegirl.com type of sites, and I dont get any more pop ups.

Eric

 

[Eric Kahn]

I have a program called Popup Killer that works great and was freeware, but the writer has given up as of march this year, due to continiual problem with interfacing with the latest version of internet exploder, which I do not use, I use an older version

looks like the Microcrap coders have done it again

Ad-Aware is great but does not stop pop ups, it just removes spyware and ad site cookies

 

[ACoyle]

I would add my vote to adsubtract pro. It takes care of cookies as well as pop ups.



AC

 

[lschultz]

Whitmore I thought all that gas you breathed in that sewage plant you worked in was making you strange,unusual, odd, different,cut below,missing something,etc but now your complaining about them pop up windows I am almost afraid to ask Whats next?

 

[Whitmore]

Sewage Plant



I no work in turd factory

 

[Eventer]

Whitmore,



2 things you can try.



1) Download the lastest version of mozilla 1. 2. 1 from mozilla.org. It has a built-in pop-up killer. Works great. This is what I am using right now. It also has e-mail so you can get away from Outlook and its many and continuing vulnerabilities. FYI. . This is nearly identical to Netscape Navigator 7. 0 except 7. 0 does not have the pop-up killer because it is owned by AOL.



2) Download CookieCop from pcmag.com. I used this for a long time before I had to downgrade to WinXP Home from Win98 so I could run my satellite network connection. CookieCop blocks cookies, pop-ups and other nasties and its free.

 

[Hohn]

pop ups..

You can try one of the downloadable products mentioned by others, or you can take the following actions:



1) stay away from the girlie sites. Pop-ups will be the least of your problems if you hang out there too long.



2) Change your browsers settings. If you have IE, just uncheck the box near some of the Java stuff, like virtual machine and all that junk. Most of that stuff you don't need (typical MS junk) and it will speed up your machine.



Also, go delete all your cookies and clear your caches.



This might get rid of all them nasties...



HOHN