Can anyone tell me how to stop the annoying windows popups without shelling out for the pop up blockers?... How do they get them on my system...I cannot understand it.
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Can anyone tell me how to stop the annoying windows popups without shelling out for the pop up blockers?... How do they get them on my system...I cannot understand it.
There are a couple of different 'pop-ups'. The normal one's you receive when visiting Web pages that support pop-ups and Windows messenger pop-ups. For the Web page pop-up's, you may want to install an ad blocker there are freeware ones available, just do a google search. I have installed the google toolbar which has some ad blocking capability. As for the windows messenger, you might want to check this thread, it has some good info. for you.
Cheers:
Sure, download the Mozilla web browser and enable the pop up blocker. Total cost $0. Total time 5 minutes.
http://www.mozilla.org
:)
Also check out Firebird, its a slimmer version of Mozilla and its free also. I have been using it a lot lately and I am pleased. It is also found at http://www.mozilla.org
If you are talking about pop-ups with "Messenger Service" in their title bar, it means you are running Windows 2000/XP. To stop this, go to start->administration tools->services and scroll down to Messenger. Click to get into the properties and hit stop and disable it on start up.
Hope this helps!
IMHO, you can't go past the The Proxomitron to get rid of those annoying pop-ups.....plus it has a host of other features.
Check out Neg's Tutorial to get the most out of it..... ;)
I'm getting in here a little late, but here is what I did and I haven't seen a pop-up in 3 months.
Downlaod Adaware from:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Get it from Lavasoft as there are hijacked versions out there that will make your problem worse (Believe it or not).
Download SpyBot Search and Destroy from:
http://spybot.eon.net.au/index.php?l...&page=download
Install, Update and then Run Adaware, Install, Update and Run SpyBot. SpyBot will prompt you that it will find Adaware archives and label them as bad. No biggie just be aware.
After that Either Install the Google toolbar as suggested by DjM above or get a different Browser, also suggested above.
That should do it, but in case your IE Browser has been Hijacked you can use
HiJackThis from:
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
Be careful with this one, it is not as refined as Adaware or SpyBot and can cause you real problems if your not careful. Reference this Tutorial to understand the HiJackThis Logs.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html
I find that one to break it down the simplest.
Anothr Utility to help protect you once you get everything locked down is RegistryProt from:
http://www.diamondcs.com.au/index.php?page=regprot
It will help keep a lot of nasties from accessing your registry once you have it all cleaned up.
Hope this helps.
I have done quite a bit of looking for good antipop programs, and good ones can be hard to find (especially free ones). I highly suggest checking out Webattack.com's wide selection of excellent popup blockers. Of that selection, EMS Free Surfer mk II is the best that I have yet found personally, and has blocked all popup ads I've run into so far without fail. I highly recommend Free Surfer, and it integrates well with Internet Explorer. The best feature is you can control how strict it is in killing popups.
http://www.webattack.com/freeware/mi...wpopblock.html
Mozilla browser or google bar. Thats currently the 2 easiest and free ways to do it.
U can also get freeware pop-up killer here :-
www.freeware.com
Hi,
Try crazy browser which automaticly stop pop ups.You will nevr have no one 100%.
(sometimes little bit boring lol)
You can download it from here www.crazybrowser.com\
Everyone wellcome to try its free.
Enjoy
I will say...... google bar..... or mozila....... free & easy... I know this was sid before but I must stress this is the best u can do
my 1cent ;)
You can block a lot of stuff without installing any software.
you will need to modify a file on your system, caled hosts
There are lots of places that give tutorials on how to do this.
HERE IS A TYPICAL ONE.
The hosts file contains a list of ip addresses and their corresponding
hostnames. An entry like this
gives the numerical address of 127.0.0.1 for the fictitious site foobar.com.Code:127.0.0.1 foobar.com
You can decide for yourself who you want to block, or copy and paste whole lists
of ad sites (like the list at the above site).
Since the address 127.0.0.1 is a "loopback" address to your own computer
Your browser will not find the ads from any site (indeed not find the site at all)
if its name is pointed to 127.0.0.1
Research the background of this info by doing a google search for hosts file
:cool:
I installed the Google Toolbar on my Windows PC and I am very impressed with its performance in IE. The toolbar offers many options, many I myself will not need but to some it may be very useful. Why hasn't MS implemented a pop-up blocker into their browser yet? Wait, nevermind....that would be a good idea, MS tends to avoid those at all costs.
Try the Outpost firewall software. It can block ads including popups.
You can add pesky sites to it. I have been using this for six months
now with no problems. I also use Firebird for most browsing.
Using these two will solve 95%at least of your problems.
Jimmy.
For stopping browser pop-ups try Opera -> www.opera.com
For stopping messenger popups try installing zonealarm -> www.zonelabs.com
and disable access to and from the netbios ports, that is ports 137 through 139.
Alternatively
Fdisk the machine -> www.fdisk.com
Install a flavour of Linux -> www.linuxiso.org.
For stopping pop-up browser windows, Netscape 7.1 works great. It blocks all the popups I don't want and I can tell it to allow popups from things like webmail and online banking by specifying which sites to allow.
Another option is a firewall. ZoneAlarm can do this quite well, and they have a free version. I think the free version does it too, but I don't know for sure. I have the pro version that came with my router. Check out some firewalls and maybe upgrade your browser for browser popups.
For the messenger popups (the ones which start with "Message from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:", disable the messenger service. You don't need another program running to do this. I have included a screenshot with made with Win2000 which should explain how.
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oops... hold up a minute... looks like the file was damaged in my recent HDD crash...
there... that's better.
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