Bruce B Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Looking for a good free program that will stop popups without stopping necessary popups(i.e. using "my assistant" on this website). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 I use the built-in pop up stopper that comes with Mozilla Firefox. You can unblock sites like this one. It works better than another pop-up blocker I used which blocked all pop-ups, incuding those I asked for. Another nice feature is that you can tell FireFox not to allow a web site to resize your windows, raise or lower windows or play with the status bar. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishepa Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 If you like to use IE, then I would recommend the Google Toolbar. Or like Robot Monkey said, use Firefox, which I do also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
db Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Mozilla Firefox is the browser I use most often; it and its popup blocker work great. When I use IE, Google Toolbar does the job amazingly well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 I use Firebird which is the older version but it works like nobody's business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camp Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 I second the Google Toolbar. Great little plug-in for IE (and Firefox). The WinXP SP2 update will be released soon. Included in it are the first real updated to IE in like a century. Among those is a pop-up blocker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Originally posted by iCamp@Feb 21 2004, 01:13 PM I second the Google Toolbar. Great little plug-in for IE (and Firefox). ... Dumb question, but what does the Google Toolbar do that isn't already in Firefox? -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTello Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Dumb question, but what does the Google Toolbar do that isn't already in Firefox? The one thing I've figured out is that no one system is perfe3ct for pop-up blocking, no one program can catch everything. I use three different methods. Google toolbar, Analog X POW, & Spyblaster & Spybot. Both Spy programs check for malicious spy enabled pop-ups, Google is the general pop-up blocker and Pow is the manual blocker which I choose specific windows to block. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishepa Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Dumb question, but what does the Google Toolbar do that isn't already in Firefox? AUTOFILL!!! The greatest thing ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Daisy Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Just another Firefox user jumping into the fray. Best browser I've used in quite some time. The popup stopper is just a great little extra. Glen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 I'm also using Google, which works quite well. Used to use a program called GuardIE which I really liked, but I lost my key for it, so I had to find something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark E Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 If you like to use IE, then I would recommend the Google Toolbar. Seconded here. I have the Google Toolbar and it blocks 99% of pop-ups I get, which is more than enough for me. Absolute godsend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFo Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 I also use the Google taskbar. It works wonderfully for me, and I can Google stuff in an instant. No taskbar should be without it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Safari's popup blocker. works in a similar manner to Firefox's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce B Posted February 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Downloaded the Google toolbar and love it. Autofill is great. Thank you for the suggestion. Has anybody ever purchased something from a popup ad? I wouldnt just out of spite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce B Posted May 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 So the google popup blocker had been working great and then all of a sudden I started getting popups again. The blocker says it still catching popups but now I'm getting them like crazy. I dont think I've downloaded anything new that might have respawned this to happen. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark E Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 Hmm, are they pop-ups or pop-unders? Just curious, but that to me almost sounds like spyware of some sort, like that damned piece of shit from the Gator Corporation. Do you have spybot or ad-aware? If not, I'd say get and run and see what they can turn up. Could be the sites you're visiting too. I've got a nailed by a couple of pop-ups in the last little bit that weren't handled by Google, so maybe the nature of some pop-ups has changed to foil Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camp Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 I agree, it sounds like spyware. Download Spybot (free) and see what it finds. I just had a bit of spyware show up that Spybot missed. Do a search for "qthhzmbhe.exe" and delete it if found. I have no idea where this one came from but it was causing pop-up that Google couldn't do anything about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark E Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 Better, get ad-aware (also free) AND spybot. I hear that each one nails stuff that the other doesn't, so it certainly helps to be a little more comprehensive that way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camp Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 I had both Ad-Aware & Spybot but ran into troubles. Spybot would crash as long as Ad-Aware was installed. I was never able to figure it out so I deleted the one I perceived as the weaker of the two: Ad-Aware **edit** I just re-installed Ad-Aware and it's behaving very well with Spybot. I guess there was something funky with my previous install. Interestingly, Ad-Aware did find ~50 things Spybot had missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackcalx Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 My wife's computer has been a hotbed of spyware lately. Just the other day I spent a good hour getting rid of a browser hijacker. She swears that she hasn't downloaded anything lately and this is the second bout of really bad spyware/malware that has happened in the last month. I used to think Gator was bad, but this CoolSearch or whatever it was called was a bitch kitty to get rid of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce B Posted May 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 Thanks for the advice. I ran Ad-Aware at home but havent tried the spybot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 like a lot of you, I use both. Be sure to run the updates on both as well. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamsappel Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 Today I installed Spybot and ran it for the first time right after I'd run Ad-Aware. Spybot found a few things AA had missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJames Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 Another Firefox user here with Google Toolbar installed on IE. If you want to test pop-up blocking then check here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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