Best Pop-up Blocker?

[Jack_Dawson]

I'm demo'ing StopZilla and must say it's very good. A couple of pop-ups have squeaked by, but nothing like the avalanche I usually get.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

1. The Google Task bar 2.0 beta...

is surprisingly good...

[Jack_Dawson]

2. Hmmm...not familiar with it.

Is it a pop-up blocker or more than that?

[JaySherman]

13. It adds a Google toolbar to your IE toolbar.

Handy for doing searches, but the best part by far is the pop-up blocker. It's free. Go to google.com and click "google tools" at the bottom. Don't choose the advanced version though. It's not much better than the standard (you get the pop-up blocker with either) and allows google to track your browsing.

[Kamika]

25. Its great

It stops almost all popups AND you can search on google anywhere.

Also its super easy to turn the popu blocker off when you visit a page that turns into a popup or something

[FDRrocks]

34. Agreed! n/t

[Ediacara]

3. the google task bar is ok for IE, but switching to mozilla is a dream

[Liberal Veteran]

6. I switched to Mozilla Firebird and popups are a thing of the past.

Firebird rocks! Plus you get tabbed browsing.

[Jack_Dawson]

7. I keep seeing this pic

Is it of anything in particular or just abstract art?

[Ediacara]

9. it's thin sections of rock in a petrographic microscope

the one on the left is a gabbro and the other two are granites.

[sexybomber]

31. OMG yes.

Mozilla Firebird has a built-in Google toolbar too. It's da bomb!

[Tripper11]

4. Avant Browser for me...

www.avantbrowser.com It installes over IE and has tons of very cool features and the built in pop up blockers is excellent! And it's as simple as one click to turn it on and off.

[arwalden]

22. AVANT BROWSER For Me As Well... It's FANTASTIC

I love the EASY EASY ability to disable/enable popups, javascripts, and especially FLASH animations.

With the Avant Browser, the menu options for turning these functions on and off are MUCH easeir to access compared to regular MSIE's method of burying them DEEP within a tabbed dialog box (then having to scroll through 3 dozen other options).

Avant's click-on/click-off is truly inspired.

-- Allen

[JaySherman]

5. Google toolbar

Zone Alarm Pro works great as a popup blocker.

Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird.

[Pale_Rider]

36. Except now Zone Alarm will be owned by ...

... Checkpoint Software, an Isreali computer security company which had been rumored to have Mossad connections.


http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2003/12/15/daily4.html

[La_Serpiente]

8. Do you have anti-spyware software?

[Jack_Dawson]

10. No I don't - should I?

Which one? Do they work at work?

[JaySherman]

11. Spybot and AdAware

In combo they're by far the best for removing spyware. And they're both free :).

As far as they're working at work. Depends on your employer's network setup. You might want to check with your network administrator.

[La_Serpiente]

12. There are some really good ones

Spyware is just as bad as pop-up ads. I use Ad-Aware and it works fine for me. There are other programs, but I forgot their names.

Ad Aware is simple to use.

Sometimes, when you go to a website, the website will transfer tracking software onto your computer without your knowledge. This tracking software will look at the websites that you go to and send it back to its host location for processing.

Is it an invasion of privacy? I think so. Does it make your computer slower? Yes. So get the spyware today and see your worries go away. :-)

Cheers
La_Serpiente

[Jack_Dawson]

14. So...

Ad Aware is a SpyWare program? In other words, it gets rid of the tracking and will make my computer faster?

[Ediacara]

15. ad aware is not spyware, it's a spyware killer

it finds and destroys the trojans and spyware programs on your computer, and will probably decrease the number of pop-ups. It's a good thing :-)

[Jack_Dawson]

16. Cool - I downloaded it.

Now what...just hit "start"?

[La_Serpiente]

17. Install it

then press "Start" And that is it. :-)

[Kellanved]

18. EZArmor

Includes Zone-Alarm Pro and a virus-scanner.
Available FREE from http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft .

[JaySherman]

19. Hmm... Mewonders why me hasn't heard of this before?

And methinks "What's the catch?"

Anyone tested this out yet? What's the word on it?

[Kellanved]

20. well

It's only free until june 2004 - by then the Service Pack #2 should have adressed the issues (will include pop-up blocker and new firewall).
And one has to register in order to get the software.

[ClintonTyree]

21. I use..............

Panicware's "pop-up blocker", the free version. It works fine and can be turned off with one click if you need to access a pop-up for a poll or something like that.

[RebelOne]

23. Please don't flame me, but I use AOL

and their pop-up blocker is great.

[absolutezero]

28. a pox on thee

AOL....ewww...I have to go shower now...:evilgrin:

then again, it's better than juno :puke:

[Jack_Dawson]

33. LOL

[johnnie]

24. Yahoo companion

I just downloaded the new version of Yahoo companion and they added a pop-up blocker. So far so good.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. Get a mac and use safari

[absolutezero]

27. I use Mozilla as a web browser

I never get popups....
and its free...

http://www.mozzila.org

[AlabamaYankee]

29. Netscpe7.x on my eMac

Since I got my new machine and installed the latest Netscape version I haven't had a single popup or popunder. Internet Explorer is terrible, and I still get some on Netscape 7.1 for Windows, but browsing popup free at home is a refreshing experience.

[Kellanved]

30. use Mozilla

Netscape is really just an old Mozilla version (with spy/ad-ware added).

http://www.mozilla.org

[curse10]

32. Another for the google toolbar!

1061 pop-ups blocked and counting!

[Mr. McD]

35. Proxomitron

At home I use a program called Proxomitron. It is 100% It is freeware
available at http://www.nonags.com/nonags/popup.html

Google misses to many popups.