Pop up killer

[Guest morpheus]

Can someone recommend a good pop up killer, please?

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[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Download and install the google toolbar (really!), the best popup killer i've seen, and free! :)

P

[Guest morpheus2702]

Panicware Pop Up Stopper Pro works for me.

[Guest siu99spj]

I use a complete different browser, Avant Browser. It has a Google (Or your favoiurite search engine) search bar, pop-up stopper (Intelligent), has tabbed windows, is faster, is based on IE AND its free! What more could you ask for. And as its based on IE, once you've installed it, thats it, it keeps your IE settings.

[Guest mcwarre]

siu99spj,

Does Avant have any Spyware? After all there is no such thing as a free lunch!!

[Guest]

Another option:

http://www.proxomitron.info/>The Proxomitron (and I'm not making this up!). Davey Winder (UK tech journo - various PC mags) swears by it.

Rather than responding to pop-ups that are about to happen or killing them when they do it works as a HTML proxy, and strips out any superflous code.

It will remove pop-ups, most adverts, JavaScript, stop animated GIFS, and much more.

It does take a bit of time to set-up, and is no longer supported by the author, but it is free (no spyware); and it's very powerful (if you know HTML you can easily write your own filters).

If you're interested get it http://www.proxomitron.info/>here

[Guest siu99spj]

siu99spj,

Does Avant have any Spyware? After all there is no such thing as a free lunch!!

No spyware, adware, nothing. Well, there is an nag screen for a Paypal donation, but you can disable it easy enough after seeing it once...

So it does seem as though you can get your free lunch after all...

[Guest madu]

Mozilla Firebird (Browser):

- Tabbed browsing (Very handy for browsing MoDaCo!)

- Popup/ad killer

- Search Bar (google etc)

- Plenty of other fancy features

- FAST Engine (allegedly faster than Opera)

- It's small (reasonably) and requires no installation

- MANY add-ons/plug-ins can be downloaded that can do almost anything

- Can be used as main browser or work alongside with IE.

- Had problems installing Java on it, eventually got it working, but was a pain.

- Not recomended for beginners

More info here: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/why/

Download here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...d-0.7-win32.zip

[Guest Vector]

Avant Browser does rock :)

[Guest spacecowboy6982]

Im about to feel the burn :evil: but AOL :evil: really does kickass in the fight against SPAM. Ive not had one SPAM email in the past 3 weeks, and the only time I get pop-ups is when I download music. They have a filter system so that when I access a website, MoDaCo for example and say a special offer flys up on the screen that gets me discounts to "XYZ" then its automatically blocked. I do have the option however of turning it off and getting bombarded with SPAM. Of course that would defeat the whole purpose :)

spacecowboy

[Guest Taoski]

Another vote for Google Toolbar here..... makes those Warez sites a breeze! :wink:

[Guest Vector]

OK, I just installed Firebird.............

And i love it ! :lol:

(Thanks Madu !) ;)

[Guest amo]

google toolbar? really?

[Guest Vector]

Yup, Google toolbar does work very well in Internet Explorer :lol:

(but i don't use it in Firebird cos it has one built in) ;)

[Guest moo_ski_doo]

I'd go for Google Toolbar too, blocks over 95% of popups in my experience. Must admit, I was quite surprised to see that feature in a search toolbar, but it works a treat and means I don't have to install another piece of software so I'm certainly not complaining :lol:

[Guest TheCardinal]

myie2 :lol:

[Guest PsychoDave]

Yup Google Toolbar is the mutts..

A doddle to use and does exactly what it says on the tin :lol:

[Guest madu]

@Davidrm:

COOL! I see you've updated your sig mate :lol:

[Guest Vector]

@Davidrm:

COOL! I see you've updated your sig mate ;)

yup :(

Looking forward to Firebird 0.8 :lol: