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How do I get pop up ads to stop? I had to clear 156 ads
since I left the computer on yesterday. I refuse to purchase ad blocker software from the very people who continualy bombard me with ads. Help!!! |
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Download the latest Opera browser, In my own opinion, it is a better browser
than most I have seen, since download of files are streamlined and comes w/a free pop-up blocker you can set yourself, though it is not friendly w/sites tailor made to IE, which is a small price to pay for free stuff. http://www.opera.com/ Mozilla and Netscape also has built in pop-up blockers aswell... and I believe it may have the same problems plauging Opera in terms of sites that are tailor made for IE. Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org/ , Netscape: http://www.netscape.com/ Also download the free firewall software from ZoneLabs, I find this better and resource friendly than most firewall programs I have used in which I have to pay for. http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp With this in mind, you now have 4 free choices of popup blockers at your disposal, to use only one, or in conjuction w/all 4. "Glen C" wrote in message ... How do I get pop up ads to stop? I had to clear 156 ads since I left the computer on yesterday. I refuse to purchase ad blocker software from the very people who continualy bombard me with ads. Help!!! |
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Glen C wrote: How do I get pop up ads to stop? I had to clear 156 ads since I left the computer on yesterday. I refuse to purchase ad blocker software from the very people who continualy bombard me with ads. Help!!! Use a free version, such as PopUpStopper - www.panicware.com. -- Frank GoBell |
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Greetings --
This particular "sales method" is strikingly similar to the "protection" rackets offered to small businesses by organized criminals. No reputable business would resort to such tactics. Particularly since they're trying to sell you a type of protection that is already available to you free of charge. This a type of spam has become quite common over the past few months, and unintentionally serves as a valid security "alert." It demonstrates that you haven't been taking sufficient precautions while connected to the Internet. Your data probably hasn't been compromised by these specific advertisements, but if you're open to this exploit, you may well be open to other threats. Install and use a decent, properly configured firewall. (Disabling the messenger service, as some people recommend, only hides the symptom, and does nothing to secure your machine.) And ignoring or just "putting up with" these messages and the problem they represent is particularly foolish. Messenger Service of Windows http://support.microsoft.com/default...B;en-us;168893 Messenger Service Window That Contains an Internet Advertisement Appears http://support.microsoft.com/?id=330904 Additionally: Blocking Ads, Parasites, and Hijackers with a Hosts File http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ---- You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "Glen C" wrote in message ... How do I get pop up ads to stop? I had to clear 156 ads since I left the computer on yesterday. I refuse to purchase ad blocker software from the very people who continualy bombard me with ads. Help!!! |
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How pray tell does a firewall prevent Pop-ups. Pop-ups
only occur when surfing a site and are not an attempt to take over your OS or to make changes to it. The XP firewall is one of the best there is and makes your computer virtually invisible to anyone looking to hack into your OS. Pop-Ups are not hacking attempts. You see when clicking a Universal Resource Locater you are effectively signing an electronic agreement to allow the site to activate pop-ups through various methods as a means of advertising to pay for the site. I am using a rather old program but one that is the most effective and that is one that places around 5 thousand DNS suffixes in windows\system32\drivers\etc file and then pop-ups won't happen as when your system is checked it effectively says you already have the pop up so it isn't loaded. Good luck. |
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http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
"Glen C" wrote in message ... How do I get pop up ads to stop? I had to clear 156 ads since I left the computer on yesterday. I refuse to purchase ad blocker software from the very people who continualy bombard me with ads. Help!!! |
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"Glen C" wrote in message ... How do I get pop up ads to stop? I had to clear 156 ads since I left the computer on yesterday. I refuse to purchase ad blocker software from the very people who continualy bombard me with ads. Help!!! You may have spyware on your machine (unless these ads come through MS messenger). Download and run Spybot search and destroy from http://security.kolla.de |
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-----Original Message----- How pray tell does a firewall prevent Pop-ups. Pop-ups only occur when surfing a site and are not an attempt to take over your OS or to make changes to it. The XP firewall is one of the best there is and makes your computer virtually invisible to anyone looking to hack into your OS. Pop-Ups are not hacking attempts. You see when clicking a Universal Resource Locater you are effectively signing an electronic agreement to allow the site to activate pop-ups through various methods as a means of advertising to pay for the site. I am using a rather old program but one that is the most effective and that is one that places around 5 thousand DNS suffixes in windows\system32\drivers\etc file and then pop-ups won't happen as when your system is checked it effectively says you already have the pop up so it isn't loaded. Good luck. . There are different types of pop-ups. The OP's complaint is about messenger service abuse, not site-specific pop-up ads. Bruce's advice is correct, and you need to get with the program before contradicting correct answers with your ignorant drivel. |
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"Wislu Plethora" wrote in message ... -----Original Message----- How pray tell does a firewall prevent Pop-ups. Pop-ups only occur when surfing a site and are not an attempt to take over your OS or to make changes to it. The XP firewall is one of the best there is and makes your computer virtually invisible to anyone looking to hack into your OS. Pop-Ups are not hacking attempts. You see when clicking a Universal Resource Locater you are effectively signing an electronic agreement to allow the site to activate pop-ups through various methods as a means of advertising to pay for the site. I am using a rather old program but one that is the most effective and that is one that places around 5 thousand DNS suffixes in windows\system32\drivers\etc file and then pop-ups won't happen as when your system is checked it effectively says you already have the pop up so it isn't loaded. Good luck. . There are different types of pop-ups. The OP's complaint is about messenger service abuse, not site-specific pop-up ads. Bruce's advice is correct, and you need to get with the program before contradicting correct answers with your ignorant drivel. Er, well I'm sure that "The rev XP" will be along soon to make comments, but I would just like to ask: exactly where did the OP make any reference to Messenger? And why are you being so abusive? |
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Unfortunately, some people here, such as Testy, (or is it Lewis today?), are
just abusive by nature. "mb" wrote in message news:uD7WcJIJDHA.2280@TK2MSFTNGP1 0.phx.gbl... "Wislu Plethora" wrote in message ... -----Original Message----- How pray tell does a firewall prevent Pop-ups. Pop-ups only occur when surfing a site and are not an attempt to take over your OS or to make changes to it. The XP firewall is one of the best there is and makes your computer virtually invisible to anyone looking to hack into your OS. Pop-Ups are not hacking attempts. You see when clicking a Universal Resource Locater you are effectively signing an electronic agreement to allow the site to activate pop-ups through various methods as a means of advertising to pay for the site. I am using a rather old program but one that is the most effective and that is one that places around 5 thousand DNS suffixes in windows\system32\drivers\etc file and then pop-ups won't happen as when your system is checked it effectively says you already have the pop up so it isn't loaded. Good luck. . There are different types of pop-ups. The OP's complaint is about messenger service abuse, not site-specific pop-up ads. Bruce's advice is correct, and you need to get with the program before contradicting correct answers with your ignorant drivel. Er, well I'm sure that "The rev XP" will be along soon to make comments, but I would just like to ask: exactly where did the OP make any reference to Messenger? And why are you being so abusive? |
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On Mon, 26 May 2003 18:18:52 -0700, "Glen C"
wrote: How do I get pop up ads to stop? I had to clear 156 ads since I left the computer on yesterday. I refuse to purchase ad blocker software from the very people who continualy bombard me with ads. Help!!! I've been using Crazy Browser for at least half a year now. It is far more stable that IE, even though it uses alot of the same interface. Once you've browsed the web with tabs you will never use anything else. Oh and the fact is I never get those annoying popups anymore. Even on warez or crack sites, which really like to hammer you with java laced garbage. Cheers Paul http://www.crazybrowser.com/index.htm |
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-----Original Message----- "Wislu Plethora" wrote in message ... -----Original Message----- How pray tell does a firewall prevent Pop-ups. Pop-ups only occur when surfing a site and are not an attempt to take over your OS or to make changes to it. The XP firewall is one of the best there is and makes your computer virtually invisible to anyone looking to hack into your OS. Pop-Ups are not hacking attempts. You see when clicking a Universal Resource Locater you are effectively signing an electronic agreement to allow the site to activate pop-ups through various methods as a means of advertising to pay for the site. I am using a rather old program but one that is the most effective and that is one that places around 5 thousand DNS suffixes in windows\system32\drivers\etc file and then pop-ups won't happen as when your system is checked it effectively says you already have the pop up so it isn't loaded. Good luck. . There are different types of pop-ups. The OP's complaint is about messenger service abuse, not site-specific pop-up ads. Bruce's advice is correct, and you need to get with the program before contradicting correct answers with your ignorant drivel. Er, well I'm sure that "The rev XP" will be along soon to make comments, but I would just like to ask: exactly where did the OP make any reference to Messenger? And why are you being so abusive? The OP made no direct reference to messenger service ads. But he *did* say that the had to clear 156 of them, and he suggested that some of the ads were trying to sell him something that would stop them. This means only one thing: messenger service abuse. If you take a moment to actually read the posts and make a modest attempt to interpret what is being asked, you will not have to embarrass yourself by asking stupid questions. As for my alleged abusiveness, I referred to the response as "ignorant drivel" because that is what it was. If you consider an accurate description of the quality of the post to be abuse, then *mea culpa*. |
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"Wislu Plethora" wrote in message ... -----Original Message----- "Wislu Plethora" wrote in message ... -----Original Message----- How pray tell does a firewall prevent Pop-ups. Pop-ups only occur when surfing a site and are not an attempt to take over your OS or to make changes to it. The XP firewall is one of the best there is and makes your computer virtually invisible to anyone looking to hack into your OS. Pop-Ups are not hacking attempts. You see when clicking a Universal Resource Locater you are effectively signing an electronic agreement to allow the site to activate pop-ups through various methods as a means of advertising to pay for the site. I am using a rather old program but one that is the most effective and that is one that places around 5 thousand DNS suffixes in windows\system32\drivers\etc file and then pop-ups won't happen as when your system is checked it effectively says you already have the pop up so it isn't loaded. Good luck. . There are different types of pop-ups. The OP's complaint is about messenger service abuse, not site-specific pop-up ads. Bruce's advice is correct, and you need to get with the program before contradicting correct answers with your ignorant drivel. Er, well I'm sure that "The rev XP" will be along soon to make comments, but I would just like to ask: exactly where did the OP make any reference to Messenger? And why are you being so abusive? The OP made no direct reference to messenger service ads. But he *did* say that the had to clear 156 of them, and he suggested that some of the ads were trying to sell him something that would stop them. This means only one thing: messenger service abuse. If you take a moment to actually read the posts and make a modest attempt to interpret what is being asked, you will not have to embarrass yourself by asking stupid questions. As for my alleged abusiveness, I referred to the response as "ignorant drivel" because that is what it was. If you consider an accurate description of the quality of the post to be abuse, then *mea culpa*. *You* don't seem to be able to read, you muppet. The first question I asked was "exactly where did the OP make any reference to Messenger?" I do not see this as a stupid question, the OP made *no reference* to messenger. You *assumed* messenger because the OP was getting pop-up ads. I do not think messenger is the only way to get pop-up ads. Look around this newsgroup, LOTS of people complain about this sort of advertising and they are NOT all caused by messenger. You think messenger has a monopoly on this? Your "alleged abusiveness": What you saw as "ignorant drivel" was somebody helping somebody else. If you see this as "ignorant drivel", then this tells me and everybody else here, what sort of person you are. The fact that you don't even see it as abuse, speaks volumes. Muppet. |
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