Pop-Up Blocking

[Marcos maniac]

any suggestions on best download

[plotloss]

Are these popups being thrown by other sites or just randomly as you work?

Matt.

[Marcos maniac]

both

but the randomly thrown up ones are really starting to pi55 me off now.

Keep getting a Go-larger one everyday now

[paolow]

the best pop up stopper i know is one, surprisingly enough called 'pop up stopper' by panicware and available from http://download.com.com/3000-2366-10186560.html?tag=lst-0-3. bear in mind though that if youve got gator or any other kind of spyware on your system this could be the problem so id recommend getting adaware http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10186632.html?tag=lst-0-1 to clean your system.
HTH
Paolo

[richardcraig]

www.endpopups.com/

Used it a little, but not much experience with it.
Has been reported to be good.

[plotloss]

Are you using a P2P sharing program such as Kazaa?

Do the popups look like normal windows messages or browser windows?

Matt.

[psychobert]

Not sure about preventing the popups as I suffer form the same problem, but I've found all osrts of interesting things lurking when I ran ad-aware on my PC. Free version available from www.lavasoft.nu/index.html

Love to know how come gator buries itself in my registry every time I go online. Have a virus checker and firewall, but it still gets in there..

[plotloss]

For the Gator thing, do you have Kazaa?

If so, ditch it and get Kazaalite...

Matt.

[Marcos maniac]

plotloss said: Are you using a P2P sharing program such as Kazaa?

Do the popups look like normal windows messages or browser windows?

Matt.

sometimes use WinMX

look like normal windows messages

[plotloss]

Ah ha!

Right thats a messenger broadcast popup.

You can do a few things here:

If you are not connected to a network go into Control Panel>Services and double click the Messenger service and stop it and change the startup type to disabled.

Other than that you can use your firewall (if you have one) to block all NetBIOS and UDP inbound traffic, that will sort it as well.

The basic premise is that these messages are broadcast accross a range of IP addresses, if when they arrive at your IP address they hit the messenger service the messenger service will display what its told.

Matt.

[Marcos maniac]

paolow said: the best pop up stopper i know is one, surprisingly enough called 'pop up stopper' by panicware and available from http://download.com.com/3000-2366-10186560.html?tag=lst-0-3. bear in mind though that if youve got gator or any other kind of spyware on your system this could be the problem so id recommend getting adaware http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10186632.html?tag=lst-0-1 to clean your system.
HTH
Paolo

Cheers

give it a whirl

Thanks for the info guys

[gtir]

www.adshield.org/

[psychobert]

plotloss said: For the Gator thing, do you have Kazaa?

If so, ditch it and get Kazaalite...

Matt.

Nope.. I download the occasional mp3 and video but avoid sites that have resulted in catching a virus, (Norton is pretty good at picking them up and I keep it up to date)..

No idea how it keeps reemerging; as I said I've the usual security on the PC..

[Marcos maniac]

plotloss said: Ah ha!

Right thats a messenger broadcast popup.

You can do a few things here:

If you are not connected to a network go into Control Panel>Services and double click the Messenger service and stop it and change the startup type to disabled.



Matt.

cheers matt

Done as you said, lets hope thats cured it

[Agent006]

Whatever you get, make sure it's not an AD blocker, jsut a popup blocker. Ted gets a bit hacked off about such things, coz they tend to eat into his income in a roundabout kinda way.

[psychobert]

Ads here work.. Suits me fine and enables me to get ads about what I want to see..

What I don't want is something popping up every 2 minutes telling me I've won a cell phone or a scholarship to some college in the USA..