Popup have become very common in today's browsing and they keep getting more annoying an troublesome. The basic ones open an ad with a website. Then some popups appear when going over a window or a link. It get's bad when these popups open another popup when they are closed and then the next popup opens a new one and so on causing a possible endless loop. What is worst is that some popups also open in a modified window, such that there is no address bar, no file menu and sometimes no title bar or anything for navigation or closing the window. The only way to close such window is ALT-F4 or kill it from task manager which in this case will most likely kill the system and require a restart. Also popups sometimes modify your mouse cursor and disable the proper right click if not the left click as even clicking the possibly available close button does nothing, and in the same way the start menu may be covered making it nearly impossible to close programs or navigate and the start menu must be forced to appear by using the "open windows" key of the win98 keyboard. And any combination of these result in simply very dangerous popups.
I have a Win XP system which is extremely stable as I have never had a system crash and only some program crashes. Earlier today I encountered the worst set of popup adds that I have ever seen (or did not see). It consisted of about 6 simultaneous regenerative windows without any menus and they took over my desktop as when I tried the show desktop icon it shoed me one of the adds, it disabled the right click and crippled the left click as in most case when I tried viewing a specific window I could not nor could I close the popups. I use an add killing program which was capable of closing these windows when I set it to do so but it was not successful, as a new set of popups was opened and my computer was stuck in an endless loop. And because it effected my desktop, using ctrl-alt-delete was useless as the popups would always appear over the task manager and there was no way to close them. And after over half an hour of endless popups and beeping, windows could not take it and reset my computer on it's own. The scan disk at start found many errors and my popup killer program retained no record of any of the popups dew to the reset. I was not able to retrace the source of these popups but I noticed that more and more ads I encountered can last a minute or more in the loop until my add killer finally stops them.
My goal is to either modify XP and/or create a program to end my troubles. To start I want to somehow modify XP and Internet Explorer such that no popup regardless of it's properties or settings could modify my system display. Meaning that every window will always have a title bar, an address bar, the navigation bar and the file menus, also so that no widow will be able to disable or modify any of the mouse function or hide the start menu. These steps are primary and I think should be the easiest as these are all parts of XP in some way and I believe can be fixed through some reasonable small modifications to it. The next step would be to find some way to disable regenerative popups as these are the ones that open new ones on exit and cause the most problems. This is a little more complicated as I think it should involve some kind of OS lock that will not allow any new window or any command or instruction coming from a file that is being closed. Since every window can be seen as a process, it should be possible to put a lock on that process when the command to close it has been received such that any popups caused by it would be completely ignored by the system and the add will close quietly. Another possible alternative, although not preferred is to simply disable popups of any kind as any command or text that might cause a popup would not just be closed or stopped but instead windows would not be able to run it at all such that any such code would always be though of as errors and ignored. One fix to this is maybe to allow popups resulting directly from a mouse slick as in some cases popup windows are not ads and are important.
I am looking for serious help and I am posting this on several posts to see if I get any good responses before I post it in the highly technical forum. I assume this will require some serious modifications or programming beyond any popup filtering software I have ever seen so most likely any software that one might recommend probably does not do what I want it to do. I am looking for an extreme fix, a hack of windows or something like that or maybe even a virus as long as it does what I want it to do.
Thank You very much for any help you can provide.
I have a Win XP system which is extremely stable as I have never had a system crash and only some program crashes. Earlier today I encountered the worst set of popup adds that I have ever seen (or did not see). It consisted of about 6 simultaneous regenerative windows without any menus and they took over my desktop as when I tried the show desktop icon it shoed me one of the adds, it disabled the right click and crippled the left click as in most case when I tried viewing a specific window I could not nor could I close the popups. I use an add killing program which was capable of closing these windows when I set it to do so but it was not successful, as a new set of popups was opened and my computer was stuck in an endless loop. And because it effected my desktop, using ctrl-alt-delete was useless as the popups would always appear over the task manager and there was no way to close them. And after over half an hour of endless popups and beeping, windows could not take it and reset my computer on it's own. The scan disk at start found many errors and my popup killer program retained no record of any of the popups dew to the reset. I was not able to retrace the source of these popups but I noticed that more and more ads I encountered can last a minute or more in the loop until my add killer finally stops them.
My goal is to either modify XP and/or create a program to end my troubles. To start I want to somehow modify XP and Internet Explorer such that no popup regardless of it's properties or settings could modify my system display. Meaning that every window will always have a title bar, an address bar, the navigation bar and the file menus, also so that no widow will be able to disable or modify any of the mouse function or hide the start menu. These steps are primary and I think should be the easiest as these are all parts of XP in some way and I believe can be fixed through some reasonable small modifications to it. The next step would be to find some way to disable regenerative popups as these are the ones that open new ones on exit and cause the most problems. This is a little more complicated as I think it should involve some kind of OS lock that will not allow any new window or any command or instruction coming from a file that is being closed. Since every window can be seen as a process, it should be possible to put a lock on that process when the command to close it has been received such that any popups caused by it would be completely ignored by the system and the add will close quietly. Another possible alternative, although not preferred is to simply disable popups of any kind as any command or text that might cause a popup would not just be closed or stopped but instead windows would not be able to run it at all such that any such code would always be though of as errors and ignored. One fix to this is maybe to allow popups resulting directly from a mouse slick as in some cases popup windows are not ads and are important.
I am looking for serious help and I am posting this on several posts to see if I get any good responses before I post it in the highly technical forum. I assume this will require some serious modifications or programming beyond any popup filtering software I have ever seen so most likely any software that one might recommend probably does not do what I want it to do. I am looking for an extreme fix, a hack of windows or something like that or maybe even a virus as long as it does what I want it to do.
Thank You very much for any help you can provide.