It's true... it's true.



Nowadays, whenever I sign on, about a gazillion pop up ads rock my computer tower to almost toppling over!

Is there a safe, legal and FREE way to rid my poor little computer of these parasites?

Lemme know.

i get this Show Behind ad everytime im online.

also some 'messenger service' where i get lil grey boxes pop up with offers & fone numbers 2 call 'n' shit.

dunno if that messenger service has nething 2 do with MSN or not.

I use "pop-up stopper" at work... it works like a charm.

You can also use Netscape or Mozilla... they will both cure the problem.

http://www.lavasoft.nu/index.html
http://www.lavasoft.nu/so...e/adaware/
http://www.lavasoft.nu/su.../download/
It's Free, i hope this will help.
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[This message was edited Mon May 12 9:57:33 PDT 2003 by katt]

Thanks for the replies, y'all. I'll check out those sites katt... thanks again!

THREAD - DEAD

To remove spyware which could be popping up ads on your computer use Ad-Aware.

To block pop up ads from web pages, I'd recommend Meaya PopUp Ad Filter. It has a few more options and features than the freeware popup stoppers, so you don't accidentally block legit windows that need to be open on some web sites.

To block those grey messenger popups you need to turn off Windows messenger service. Its not the same as Windows Messenger, its a service within windows thats used (i believe) to display error messages, But spammers are exploiting it and using it to send spam. All they need is your IP and they can easily send you them.

If you're running programs like Kazaa, you probabbly got a ton of spyware on your computer. There's Kazaa Lite that is available on the web for free too without the spyware.

June7 said:

Arh, U must have XP

Wherever a pop up ad appears just press Alt+F4 at the same time et voilà.

REDFEATHERS said:

You bastard!

I didn't expect this one to "flame", it's a technical question!!!

Tom said:

I'm downloading ad-aware as we speak... thanks for the tips.

June7

Moonbeam

me

What are you doing up at this ungodly time anyhow, June? You missed all of the festivities last night!

TRAITOR!!

Hi Natsume!

(or is that ??)

Yeah, I was off last night... I'll be here all week though!

Hi!


June7

Ad-aware is good, but may not find everything; another one is spybot (also free) but you gotta be careful with spybot; you CAN damage your registry, if you dunno what you're doing (default options is safe though)

For pop-ups during browsing : I myself use the Opera-browser; it's free, it's fast and you'll have the choice of allowing, refusing or allow only requested pop-ups as a built in option ! (the downside being that it doesn't load 100% of web-pages correctly).

Go try some June7, my fav censuskeeper

Well, I just downloaded ad-aware, and it cleaned my computer of the current ad software on my computer (almost 200 items!!!) but, to prevent the pop up ads from appearing while I browse, I need to purchase their more professional software...(just what I was trying to avoid).

I may give Opera-browser a try, Alf... do you have a link?

As I was saying... Netscape, Mozilla and Safari will all block pop-ups for you.

You can use any of them... Safari is Mac only though.

IceNine said:

I used to have Netscape, (it's a browser, right?) and didn't care for it much.

Safari is Mac only... that leaves me out.

Mozilla... what is this, and do you have a link?

Thanks for the suggestions.

June7 said:

www.mozilla.org

Mozilla is actually really cool...

June7 said:

well, i dont want to tell you about http://www.astalavista.com and how you can find cracks to commercial software, because that would be just wrong, and illegal.

Tom said:

I just went to this link... is there a fee involved? What exactly does it do? BTW - (moderators) We're just discussing...

Natsume said:

At least excuse yourself!!!

www.mozilla.org and download tha browser. in tha tools task bar u can surpress popups completely

Finess said:

Yeah, but I love my IE browser... will it affect it dramatically? I'm still waiting for more info before I install it...

Don't pop-up stopper-type software stop you clicking on links? i downloaded one once and it was a real pain in the arse!

Marrk said:

Yeah... I remember one time I downloaded this stop-ad software, and then I was unable to view any personal profiles, or orgnote anyone here...

June7 said:

You have to hold down a command key when you click on some links if you are using a pop-up blocker.

Yeah, I downloaded Mozilla... it's cool. The browser isn't bad either. Now, how do I get all my "favorites" from IE into the Bookmark section of Mozilla?

I'm gonna have to play with this for awhile...

Thanks Ice...