Best Pop-Up Stopper......
 

Ok so my girlfriend keeps getting all these pop-ups on her computer and she has no clue why. She'll get somewhere between 5 and 8 at a time and sometimes so many that it'll freeze her computer up. I was wondering what is the best way to get rid of them. She shares her computer with her 12 year old sister and I don't think her little sister needs to see adds advertising penis enlargement and free porn, know what I mean. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks Yall.

well, first of all, run Ad-Aware and Spybot Search and Destroy. That should clean up the spyware that is on the computer for the most part.

As far as stopping pop-ups from visiting webpages, I just use Mozilla. Nothing better than when it's built into the browser.

Im running popup stopper. Its free and works great.

I got my girlfriend to start using Opera. She swears by it now, and can't live without the gestures (not to mention, no pop-ups). Plus, there's plenty of... *ahem*... "pretty" skins for girls to like ;)

All your answers plus more:
Free Popup Blocker?
Pop up blocker!

Analog-X POW!

http://www.analogx.com/contents/down...etwork/pow.htm

I simply use the new Google tool bar, and it has a built in pop-up stopper that works extremely well for me.

I like Pop-Up Stopper

agreed

Best way? Run <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla Firebird</a>. No popups anymore, and a much better browser than IE anyways.

What she has sounds like spyware though. Are they popping up when no browser window is open? If so, they are spyware. Like others suggested, download and run Adware. That should get rid of them.

Run Ad-Aware, and MyIE2 (or firebird, whatever takes your fancy). That'll stop 'em!

Like <b>Baldrick</b> I use the Google's taskbar. It catches everything, not another app to load, and lets you allow certain sites to popup if you need to.

I like small and simple :-)

Opera is my first choice; I do really love those mouse gestures and they do not feel quite right in Mozilla. Moz is a very capable backup in my opinion as long I am not downloading something with it.

Thanks for the feed back yall, greatly appreciated.

The google bar works great.

Ditto no prob's with popup stopper !!!!

When I am forced to use Internet Explorer, I use the Google-Bar. Other than, I solely use Mozilla Firebird, their stand-a-lone web browser (doesn't have the other email and newsreader built in). Between the two of these programs, I never get pop-ups that I don't want to see.

I am a big fan of Meaya Pop-up stopper. works really well. Use that with a bi-monthly routine of an Ad-aware scan and that should help.

Couldn't agree more, best browser around!

yes! tiny filesize, and a great program. (check out the rest of his stuff too, this guy is awesome)

google bar works fine, other option is crazy browser, a freeware web browser that uses the same engine IE uses, with a very good popup stopper build in - available here

I have Google at work, and Zero Popup at home. Both work great.

like many said already, google toolbar rocks.

I use that in conjunction with EMS free surfer http://www.kolumbus.fi/eero.muhonen/FS/Support.htm and no pop ups get through!

I use the google toolbar, which really works well. Also Netscape 7 has a built-in popup stopper (since they share much with Mozilla) and it works really well, plus unlike N6, it actually works with most pages :)

like alot people here already said : Google Toobar :)

MOZILLA FIREBIRD

it is the by far greatest thing since sliced bread.

just started to use google toolbar popup stopper. Let's see how this baby works!

i use google toolbar 2.0.. couldnt live without it

If Firebird/Mozilla dont stop the popups, then dont forget to disable the Microsoft Messanger in windows xp. Its an un-needed service that microsoft turns on by default, for some unknown reason.

Directions:

http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/communica...2137085,00.htm

ditto

i like google toolbar

I personally uses Opera and have absolutely no issues with popups at all. My wife refuses to abandon IE, but is using the google tool bar with great success.

FIREBIRD if you dont need a mail client

if you want a client get mozilla....what i use at home. firebird at work. beautiful work around

a few sites that i very very infrequently visit have problems with mozilla but oh well not important to me

I agree with mozilla, but Spybot is the better choice now for spyware detection

I'd reccomend the google toolbar w/ popupblocker

Im running the Google Toolbar with popup blocker, and so far, none have gotten through. My friend uses the Analog-X POW!, and claims its very good. I also use Mozilla and MyIE2, which are all great. No complaints about any.

The google toolbar is great! not only does it block popups but I can search google anytime I want w/o having to go there.

Google toolbar and MyIE2 are regarded as the best at popup stopping - superior to mozilla.

Another one for Google toolbar!

ZoneAlarm also has a popup blocker

popupcop 2.0!