I want to get some idea's whats out there. It for my moms computer, she HATES getting pop ups.

Chris,

This may not help all that much. I'm running linux/mozilla. Mozilla has
controls for some of the pop up nonsense. I've turned them all off
and it seems to work fine.

I've not tried out mozilla on a win system yet, so I can't speak to
how well it works there.

kim.

Tell her to stay off those porn sites!

Okay, just kidd'n. I use Pop-Up Stopper by Panicware. There's a shareware version, that's what I'm using.

Have fun,
Kevin

you can also do something like this, although I doubt your mom will want to keep track of this.

http://www.sassites.com/saien/pop/popups.html

also, pop-ups are spawned from the javascript open command, you can disable like this.

http://www.lithosjigs.com/cart/enablejava.html

Chris,

See if she downloaded a time sync software. I found out the time sync software loads your computer with pop-up ads and as you click on different pages they send a control that tells the browser to pop them up. Sooo. they are pulling your leg by telling you its a time sync software.....

B

yeah, it's from gator, called GAIN. that is not easy to rid yourself of once it's on there.

Somehow I got the gator on my work computer. I work out of my house on an intranet. I also access the web for research. I done use it for non work related stuff. The work computer has Black Ice and a bunch of mirror software and my company monitors my activity.(all my activity by the minute!) Any unauthorized use is grounds for termination. I have an old Think Pad for personal use. My wife used it a couple of times and may have gotten it from checking her hotmail. I was getting a university ad on a timed popup. It was a pita but not a big deal. I just got one tonight advertizing a phone sex line! That's IT! My wife has a BA in Comp Science. We just found and deleted a gator something or another . ( I said she has the degree not me) Then I found a site that has step by step instructions on how to disable the feature on your computer. We tried it. It'a a wait and see now.

www.stanford.edu/group/pwr/instructors/ technology/nonbrowspopups.pdf

I get the same university popup too. I tried steps before to disable mine, and I deleted everything GAIN wise on my system, but I still get it. I'll have to try and figure this out again.

these people actually wanted to interview me before, how embarrassing to work for a place like that.

I think my wife found it by seaching the computer by the time. then I saw the gator thing and we deleted it. I don't know if it worked. We'll see. (ya..I don't have a clue)

For all you guys that hate using MS stuff ... and since netscape (in my book) has gone down the tubes ... I have started using OPERA for my web browser, its shareware and can be had at www.opera.com ... it has a popup stopper built into it, its ultra lightweight and quite fast.

you might want to give it a try ... its only a 12mb download...

hth,

Tony

All this pop-up stuff is just the surface of a bigger spyware problem. To learn more about spyware, pop-ups, and all that other advertising/demographic crap start here.

I'm also running spybot search and destroy (search google, I don't have the website right now) which will hunt down and kill stuff like GAIN and other stuff that gets cobbled on to your windoze system.

Have fun,
Kevin

thanks kevin. just ran spybot and cleaned the 111 problems I had. I feel so clean now!

No worries dude. Power to the People!

Have fun,
Kevin

Hay, thanks for the tip.
I ran spybot.........good gawd. I knew this puter was a mess and now I know why.....a 4 year collection of shitage
was really slowing it down. There were several thousand
"problems". Now it starts/runs quickly again.

Now, if I could just run something like spybot on my old bod.....

I downloaded and ran the Spybot S&D also...great tool.

I suddenly started getting bombarded with pop-ups not too long ago. After some hunting in the registry, I discovered an actual service/driver that had been installed on my machine which was causing it. I'd just be sitting there on the Pelican BBS or even Yahoo, and the crap would open up. The service was called something really innocuous like "Winsvc" or "Mediahelper" or something along those lines. Nuked it and the popups decreased 95%.

What a waste of time this crap is...