OT: Pop-ups!!!!, how do i stop em? Options

[Aaron Cox]

aarrgfgh! i hate pop ups, let someone use your 'puter, and trhen all the pop ups come!

HELP! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

[Pnambic]

I use Guard IE. Its shareware, which means you can install it free, but you have to buy it unless you want to re-install it every coupla weeks. But it has a whole slew of options that allow you to specify what sites are allowed pop-ups and it'll kill all the rest. It also manages cookies pretty well.

I shouldn't have to pay for a security system for my house, but in order to keep people from breaking in, I have to. I look at the pop-up blockers the same way. While I shouldn't have to pay to keep things off my computer that I don't want there, It's better than the alternative.

Good luck!

I recently found a program installed on a client's computer that was targeting particular types of web-sites popping up specific competitors that payed them for the service. (ie. client went to Farm Bureau's web site and got pop-ups trying to redirect them to a competitor's website.) The culprit was a program listed in Add/Remove as "SaveNow". I uninstalled it and the pop-ups went away....for now.

Quick note to people writing software that makes all these pop-ups and the companies advertizing through them.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pissoff.gif) I can garuntee that I will never do business with any company that utilizes pop-ups if I associate them with these annoyances.