www.panicware.com
they have a free version of pop-up stopper

here is a good one. it is called Safari. a great pop-up blocker. intelligent too.

Man, I'm glad I looked through this forum a bit. I was still running Ad-aware build 162, and it wasn't working like I wanted it to. My Internet Explorer was running deathly slow, especially on forums and pages with a lot of pictures. I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I had tried running Ad-aware, virus scans, defragmenting.... everything. I was constantly checking for ad-aware updates through the program, but it didn't tell me about new builds, I guess. I updated to Ad-Aware 181 and it's running smooth again. Thanks!

and to add to all, if you are on a non-firewalled broadband connection, do you have Windows Messenger Service running on your machine (assuming it's a Win box)?

Ad-Aware is great, but to get everything, run Spybot Search and Destroy after AdAware. Those two will gut your system and get everything I've ever seen.

get mozilla or netscape or one of their derivatives. Pop-up blocking is built in.

The Google Toolbar of course

http://toolbar.google.com/index-beta.php

just a note, make sure your AD-aware is updated. i just updated AFTER a scan that found 15 objects. ran it after the update and found 170 objets on top of that.

A new popup blocker that is absolutely free, Secretmaker 3.5.5.

http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10...ml?tag=lst-5-1

Pretty cool freeware that is small in size, but very effective.

I hate the ones that are integrated as a browser toolbar so I use this.

Well i run Panicware pop up stopper i really like it i as u can allow pop ups u want and zap the ones you dont its a free version.

But sometimes some must be smart suckers of adds as they do pop up don't get many when surfing but sometimes.
Or maybe i have not updated it and done me settings right i love it thou best thing i got other then nortens antivirus wouldnt be without any of them. Oh i run Windows xp And Explorer.

Phill

If you're running WinXP, service pack 2 gives Internet Explorer a built-in popup blocker. It actually works pretty well too.

I'd have to agree. They're much superior browsers anyways.