How do you prevent pop-ups?

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Sat 21 Aug, 2004 3:29 pm

Everytime I open a new web page I got attacked by pop up messages. It is especially bad for me because my computors old and crap and the messages use half my modem capacity! My family also uses it from time to time, and every so often I get pop ups from porno sites so it would be nice if I could prevent them. Anyone know how?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat 21 Aug, 2004 4:08 pm

There is a free program you can download called "Lavasoft ad-aware".
It should find the source of the pop-ups on your computer.
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045 ... tag=button

davo141 · Post by **davo141** » Sat 21 Aug, 2004 4:56 pm

also goto www.google.co.uk and download there toolbar has a built in pop up blocker which stops advertisments from webpages.

davo

Tab · Post by **Tab** » Sun 22 Aug, 2004 10:56 pm

I installed a Norton Firewall, cleared up the whole problem in one.

:drinking:

Rugee · Post by **Rugee** » Mon 23 Aug, 2004 12:33 am

Mozilla Firefox is a free internet browser just like internet explorer, it does exactly the same stuff as internet explorer in my experience and more it has in built pop up blocker. And as im informed from a computer geek of a friend, half of the virus' and crap on the internet are written for internet explorer and consequently wont touch mozilla firefox. I have been using it for a month and a half now and its seems superb. You dont get any of those annoying toolbars and junk that seem to miraculously appear on explorer either.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Cheers Ian.

rabby · Post by **rabby** » Mon 23 Aug, 2004 11:13 am

I'd seconf Rugee's views on Firfox. I've had it for a couple of months and its great, there are lots of different lug ins you can get for it that make net browsing easier as well.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Thu 26 Aug, 2004 2:44 am

Thanks for the help everyone. I downloaded that google toolbar, but it just closes some of the pop ups after they have already loaded up. Ill give the others a go.

markd · Post by **markd** » Tue 06 Sep, 2005 2:00 pm

If you have XP? the option to block pop-ups is in 'internet options', although some do still manage to find their way into the middle of my screen

Bliartheliar · Post by **Bliartheliar** » Fri 07 Oct, 2005 10:29 pm

Yer mate, it worked. I was having trouble on my old computor on Windows 95, but got a new one with XP and never had any trouble with it. Cheers.

Dave.Mil · Post by **Dave.Mil** » Sat 08 Oct, 2005 12:50 am

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