Wurzel

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Does any body know how to disable these annoying pop up adverts, I have tried a number of different banner zappers, which only work for a while then like the borg the banners seem to adapt and start again, I have Norton personal firewall installed and done a complete block from certain urls that I have found in some of the popups but they still get through somehow!! they are really anoying especially when your typing without looking only to find that after the first word a banner poped up and you have not actually typed anything due to the window not being active anymore.

stevencotton

If you can handle using two browsers try Opera, it succesfully stops pop-ups for me, is a config option. For those sites that refuse to work on anything else but IE you can always just fire it up I suppose, that's what I do. Pop-ups are a pain in the **** and I feel your pain

Steve.

Hanley

Wurzel

Do you mean the pop-ups that appear even when you're not on the net??

I come home from work and I have popup message asking me to call Kelly for 'chat'

I to have Norton Firewall and tried blocking these URL's but they keep getting thorugh

Re-Bitten Hero

I use PanicWare's PopUp Stopper which works a treat I've had none since I installed it

Only thing is, it sometimes blocks ones you would like but then you just hold down Ctrl and click the link, and they come up anyway

Big thumbs up! Available here: www.panicware.com or direct to download page (get the free one) here: http://www.panicware.com/popupstoppercompare.html

Cheers
Richard


[Edited by Re-Bitten Hero - 1/17/2003 6:07:38 PM]

boxst

Hello

They are annoying, sometimes "legimate" sites like virgin offer competitions via these pop-up adverts.

I tend to leave them on, unless I'm visiting the more, erm, "interesting" sites on the internet.

Steve.

Anduram

Disable Javascript. That stops em.

camk

check you've not hot adware running on your PC, get a copy of adaware. If you've got adware on your PC then it poll's back to base with your IP address.

Cheers
Cammy

AndyC_772

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I have a feeling that some pop-ups are sent using the messaging service built into XP (and maybe NT/W2K), so disabling the messaging service should put a stop to those.

'Fraid I don't know exactly how to do that, mind - I'm still (fairly) happily using Win 98 which doesn't have this problem.

A.

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

Cheers All

Camk I do have Ad-Aware 5.83 installed but not sure what to do with the results it gives me. Is it safe to delete all the items it comes up with or what?

Cheers

Steve

Tony_W

Try Netcaptor.

It has built in popup-stopper, and is much better than IE. you can open loads of links in new windows and they all stay within an outer window and are tabbed...unlike IE which throws them all over your screen..

Can't recommend NetCaptor enough....and it's only about £15 with free updates for life!

Tony

stevencotton

The popup messages sent via RPC are easily distinguishable from the ones you get whilst web browsing, but if you run zone alarm or some other firewall you shouldn't see those anyway. Unfortunately Windows ships in zero security mode so you need to disable all those services yourself.

Steve.

camk

Steve,
I delete them all. I don't get them now unless I download something dodgy(cough,cough)(due to my Router having a built in Firewall). After any major internet downloaded software install I run adaware to check there is no spyware included in the install package.
I've even uninstalled my Zonealarm software since the physical one went online as it was reporting nothing except being pinged by the Router.

Cheers
Cammy

Paulo P

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Cheers Richard I just installed that

Re-Bitten Hero

No problem Paul .

By the way, if you're running Windows XP, you can enable the built-in Firewall software. Go to the dial-up properties for your Internet connection, and on one of the tabs, it has a tick-box for enabling the Firewall.

I run ZoneAlarm too just to be sure!

Cheers
Richard

Hanley

I disabled the Messenger Service on Windows XP and I haven't had any mor yet!!!

Kelly obviously doesn't want to have a £1.50 pm chat with me now