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Old 30 December 2002, 02:56 PM
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I know there are ways to stop pop ups appearing on web pages, but I have a very nasty one which seems to load itself whatever webpage I am on and it then "spawns" a host of other advertising popups which are really awkward to delete as they keep on re-loading.
Is there any way I can find where this file is eminating from so that I can stop it? Ironically it is advertising a "Pop Up Stopper" which out of principal I would not think of using due to the ad's persistance.
Old 30 December 2002, 03:34 PM
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Dave,

try www.landerconsultants.com/downloads/popstop.exe, shameless plug but its free! and no spyware or any nasty $hit coz I did it

Gary
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also, if it's a single host you want to block you can add an antry to your hosts files like :-

127.0.0.1 ads.spammer.com

(obviously change the second part to the actual host name)
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