Stupid popups

Which popup blocker/remover/whatever do you guys recommend (I'm asking you guys, not Google, because you people actually have experience with the software)? I'm tired of having twenty windows, two of which have relevant data, to sort through.

On the same note, I hate those stupid sites that use cross-browser scripting to scan you hd and show it to you, saying your computer is at risk.......if any of you hate that too, some advice is to just activate your firewall/up it a level of protection...(if you don't have a firewall, then you can email me and i'll send you black ice, it's only 3 megs).

thanks, feel free to boost your ego by taking apart my request and flaming the **** out of it...........:)

The Proxomitron (see Neg's tutorial)

The Proxomitron, and if you don't want single pixel bugs and bad cookies, then Spyblocker is okay.

BTW- Black ICE sucks as far as personal firewalls go. Not a flame, just the facts.

What firewall would you recommend, KorpDeath? Most people like either BlackIce or ZoneAlarm

pysk0tik> BlackIce and ZoneAlarm are the most popular, which means they are two of the worst. Kinda like Microsoft ;) TPF (Tiny Personal Firewall) and Sygate are both a lot better.

Back in my MS days, TPF saved my life and provided the tighest security I ever had. Not even spyware could get past it.

zone alarm was good, when it worked (i upgraded to xp (duh)) now i use norton firewall from systemworks, haven't had any problems so far, 4 months to date.

If you use anamayous proxy servers your ip adress will be masked and so will your harddrive and if you use a proxy firewall that wornt hurt either

well i use proximtron for popups it is awsome and as a firewall tiny is the best...i love it till i die :)

Proximtron is useful but i found that pop ups taht dispaly as full webpages still pop up and the pop up's that are linked to those bypass it.

Personally, opera works fine as far as popups and ulnerabilities go. As for firewalls, Atguard is still my favorite.

never heard of that firewall :(

I use the new Outpost (free version) which takes care of cookies, popups, ads, VB/Java scripts, ActiveX and all kinds of other stuff. I really like the versatility. As for Black Ice, when I found it wouldn't stop unauthorized outgoing traffic, I dumped it.

Atguard is a firewall that is now abandoneware: The company stopped supporting it and it is now public domain. So basically, it's free. In addition to the standard rule based firewall (it's probably most similar to tiny, although I happen to like it better) You also get the ability to block ads, configure certain privacy options like headers, and I find it has a lot of options while still being as easy to use as the other popular firewalls.

Check out Mozilla (Netscape's code is based on this). Mozilla is probably the best browser I've used, and 1.0 was released today. It is a rather large download (~10MB), but it gives you the option of blocking unwanted popups (netscape/aol removed this option). It is definitely worth trying.