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10-17-2003, 10:17 PM
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I stole my boyfriends TFP, hehe !!
Location: Galveston, TX
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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.
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10-17-2003, 10:39 PM
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Location: Chicago
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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.
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10-18-2003, 02:13 AM
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Pure Chewing Satisfaction
Location: can i use bbcode [i]here[/i]?
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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
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10-18-2003, 07:52 AM
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beauty in the breakdown
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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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.
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10-18-2003, 10:17 AM
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It wasnt me
Location: Scotland
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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 :-)
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10-18-2003, 10:44 AM
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Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Location: right here of course
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10-19-2003, 07:42 AM
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Crazy
Location: Bit Bucket
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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.
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10-21-2003, 04:28 PM
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Psycho
Location: London...no longer a student
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10-23-2003, 12:27 AM
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back from sabbatical
Location: Mosptopia
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yes! tiny filesize, and a great program. (check out the rest of his stuff too, this guy is awesome)
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10-25-2003, 10:08 AM
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I flopped the nutz...
Location: Stratford, CT
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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!
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10-26-2003, 10:56 PM
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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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
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10-28-2003, 12:29 PM
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Upright
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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 |
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10-28-2003, 04:41 PM
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Tilted
Location: Nashville, TN USA
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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
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10-28-2003, 09:47 PM
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