klenke Posted October 19, 2003 Posted October 19, 2003 Okay, so I'm thinking I'll reload Windows on my computer to clean up a lot of mess that's going on. I think I'll acquire some anti-pop up software while doing this. So my question is which anti-pop up softwares are best? I'd like to download a free version if possible but am not against shelling out a bit of money if need be. These damn pop ups are really starting to get intrusive. I mean, they were always intrusive, but now they're really getting bad. Ugh! Thanks - Paul Quote
olyclimber Posted October 19, 2003 Posted October 19, 2003 Klenke, I don't know about IE popup software, but one suggestion for dealing with popups is to use the Mozilla browser instead of IE. It has built in popup blocking, and works great...and it's free. www.mozilla.org. Quote
blue_morph Posted October 19, 2003 Posted October 19, 2003 second vote for mozilla! Why use IE? Quote
klenke Posted October 19, 2003 Author Posted October 19, 2003 A friend of mine told me about Mozilla and I did check out their website. That may be the browser of choice. Q: does Mozilla run interference with IE or does Windows complain about Mozilla? Quote
Gary_Yngve Posted October 19, 2003 Posted October 19, 2003 The browsers won't fight each other, but what you may find is things don't look as good in mozilla as IE because dumbasses wrote their websites to cater only to IE. I'm a linux freak, and in general I dislike M$, but I use IE as my browser in Windows because it works the best. Google may have some anti-popup stuff.... Quote
slothrop Posted October 20, 2003 Posted October 20, 2003 Mozilla has built-in ability to disable popups, as well as the ability to block images from a given address. You see an ad, you right-click on it, select "Block Images from this Server", and no more ads. Just make sure that the same address isn't serving useful images for the site. I want something like that for Flash ads, too. I rarely run into websites that are useless because they're written for IE, but it does happen. Quote
lI1|1! Posted October 20, 2003 Posted October 20, 2003 'google toolbar' blocks pop-ups with IE. works for me. i use mozilla too and don't notice much difference. Quote
klenke Posted October 20, 2003 Author Posted October 20, 2003 Cpt.Caveman said: Easy- Stop surfing porn. Oh, so that's the solution!!! Nope, sorry, can't stop doing that. Mozilla it is. Quote
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