Originally posted by: LordSnailz
Isnt editing your hosts file as effective as using the pop-up stopper or any pop ad program?
You'll still get a pop-up...it'll just be blank. More effective than that would be
Mozilla, which lets you disable certain features of JavaScript that tend to be abused (such as opening unrequested windows (pop-ups) and changing the status-bar text).
I can't say that I've ever used Pop-Up Stopper (before switching to Mozilla, I had a fairly comprehensive ad-blocker running that killed most pop-ups), but Ad-aware is a good thing to keep around for getting rid of spyware on other people's computers. (I know better than to let that kind of crap land on
my computer. )