annoying pop ups

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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

[maxim_86ualb2]

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

[rcgreen]

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

127.0.0.1        foobar.com

gives the numerical address of 127.0.0.1 for the fictitious site 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

[lekt0r]

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.

[iconfly]

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.

[wurzul]

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.

[Striek]

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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