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jaxkix
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 Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 8:45 am Post subject: The Best Pop Up Blocker ? |
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Any opinions on what is the best pop up blocker ?
Is stopzilla any good ? |
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satchick
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 10:39 am Post subject: |
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I wouldn't use it. The Google toolbar is a lot better at it and its even FREE  |
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Delgado
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 3:39 am Post subject: Best Pop Up STopper |
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| The answer is to use a different browser I think. If you use Mozilla or Mozilla Firefox, or even Opera, you will have a built in Pop Up Stopper, and much better security. I use Firefox, and have forgotten what a pop up looks like! |
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jaxkix
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 6:45 am Post subject: Re: Best Pop Up STopper |
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| Delgado wrote: |
| The answer is to use a different browser I think. If you use Mozilla or Mozilla Firefox, or even Opera, you will have a built in Pop Up Stopper, and much better security. I use Firefox, and have forgotten what a pop up looks like! |
I have heard from others that really like that browser 
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satchick
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:11 am Post subject: |
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Delgado is right. It's a great browser, and also more secure then IE because its not as popular and not as closely knit to the operating system. It's only in beta right now, but still runs better then IE. Get it here:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ |
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richemp
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Joined: May 25, 2004
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Well i use Zonealarm Pro popup blocker option and i find it pretty nifty! |
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MOMGONECRAZY
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Location: USA
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 1:50 am Post subject: |
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WELL I USE THE AOL TOOLBAR AND IT WORKS GREAT
HERE'S A LINK TO THE DOWNLOAD
http://ftp.newaol.com/aoltoolbar/download.html |
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satchick
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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The AOL toolbar is bundled with malware. I would advise anyone against using it, like a few other AOL products. There are plenty of alternatives out there, a few mentioned here.  |
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MOMGONECRAZY
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 4:35 am Post subject: |
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thanks for the info i just found out the hard way it has the isearch toolbar
if it wasnt for spysweeper i wouldnt have know which is sad because it's a good toolbar |
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Victior
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 6:29 am Post subject: No way............. |
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The best one by FAR is...........................
http://download.com.com/3000-7786-10132...ag=lst-0-1 |
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GillW
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| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:12 am Post subject: |
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I'm happy with the popup blocker built in to Netscape7, but has anyone any ideas on how you can stop those irritating audio adverts that come up with some websites? I'm getting more than a bit fedup with being told I can get a college degree  |
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satchick
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| The best way to stop those is not to load Macromedia Flash. This tool has been greatly abused by advertisers and is the source of many annoying and noisy pop-ups. I don't have it loaded on my system at all now that 90% of the time its just used to display ads (MSN is a big culprit of this). |
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GillW
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 8:46 am Post subject: |
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| satchick wrote: |
| The best way to stop those is not to load Macromedia Flash. This tool has been greatly abused by advertisers and is the source of many annoying and noisy pop-ups. I don't have it loaded on my system at all now that 90% of the time its just used to display ads (MSN is a big culprit of this). |
Thanks for this info.
I'm a bit stumped for a solution for me though, as some of my favourite sites use Flash a lot.
I guess I'll put up with them until & unless they get more frequent.
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rancid_ilike
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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| ad-muncher...da great!!! |
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satchick
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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| The problem with ad-muncher is it's not free. Moving from IE to Mozilla Firefox is free, and you get the built in pop-up blocker. I haven't seen a pop-up since I started using it a month ago. |
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