*HOT* Best Darn Popup Killer PERIOD !!!

[dfloyd]

Ten pages, ten failures.

How is this so hot? It just doesnt stop any popup I have tried it with.

There are other much better and free as well out there. If this acutally stopped popups it would be nice. But using WinME and IE 6 its just not doing it.

 

[bhess]

I personally like pop-up stopper. Absolutely nothing opens unless I click shift or ctrl.

But I would like to thank RevJim for the tip on despammed.com.

 

[lawaris]

am gonna give this a try

 

[waytoomuchcoffee]

<< Ten pages, ten failures.

How is this so hot? It just doesnt stop any popup I have tried it with.
>>



Lol. I just KNOW you set it up wrong. It stops every one for me, to get this error rate you need to skip the manual. I have not had one pop up in the last few months. It even has a setting to stop geocities popups. I am guessing you did not read the manual, and set up your proxy server in IE.

 

[atwnsw]

Is there anyway to start it automatically when I open Internet explorer or when I startup the computer?

I like the program but don't want to have to start it manually each time.

Thanks

Anthony

 

[Amber]

I had a ton of lockup's using netscape 6.2
it stoped the pop-ups and gave lock-ups

 

[GroundedSailor]

I use AdSubtract Pro and it works fine. It is very customizable and you can see what you want to see or hear site by site if you want. Cookie control is excellent. I don't see ads anywhere and best of all NO pop-ups. You can turn it off/onn by one simple click on the icon in the task bar tray.

Its simple and it works.

 

[FatPat]

Popup Stopper is the easiest and best I've found.

 

[toant103]

i'm using the one from www.panicware.com

 

[vinnyracer]

can it kill the anandtech popup

 

[dude]

 

[dude]

Hm... I disabled active scripting and I was not able to post! Actually, I can post but it comes up blank!

Anyone else have this problem?

 

[dude]

No one? I would like to get rid of popups without using external proggies! Thanks!

 

[waytoomuchcoffee]

<< can it kill the anandtech popup >>



There are popups here? I have no idea what sites have popups or not.

 

[RGN]

<< Ten pages, ten failures.

How is this so hot? It just doesnt stop any popup I have tried it with.

There are other much better and free as well out there. If this acutally stopped popups it would be nice. But using WinME and IE 6 its just not doing it. >>



I just installed it and set up the loopback in my browser config. I went to several sites with known popups. They did not appear. It works for me.

For all of you mentioning Popup Stopper, it does not work correctly under XP. The quicklaunch icons get stopped.

 

[Phunktion]

<<

<< Ten pages, ten failures.

How is this so hot? It just doesnt stop any popup I have tried it with.

There are other much better and free as well out there. If this acutally stopped popups it would be nice. But using WinME and IE 6 its just not doing it. >>



I just installed it and set up the loopback in my browser config. I went to several sites with known popups. They did not appear. It works for me.

For all of you mentioning Popup Stopper, it does not work correctly under XP. The quicklaunch icons get stopped. >>


No Popup Stopper works perfect in XP.. and it would do the same thing in any OS because it just won't let any new IE windows come up unless you hold ctrl so go to the quicklaunch, hold ctrl, and everythings fine..

 

[VirtualLarry]

I would like to put in my 0.02 to this thread, and second the recommendation for WebWasher. I have been using it for some time, and generally speaking, it works great, and is pretty highly customizable. Plus, if you ever *do* need to view a page with javascript and pop-up windows (secondary windows for images on a news site, for example), you can just single-click on the icon in the systray to disable a portion of the filtering features.
I use WW 3.0, not the new beta one. The original one just runs as a user-mode TCP port 8080 (configurable) proxy server that filters and edits the HTML. The new beta one does something to actually add into the WinSock 2.0 TCP/IP stack itself as a system driver, and is presumably slightly more efficicent, but I don't like how low-level it runs. (I like to have control over all my net apps using ZoneAlarm.)
I also use Mozilla as my primary browser, and use its cookie features on top of WebWasher.
The *only* disadvantages that I've seen with WebWasher, are sometimes I like to open multiple new windows, and it seems like it bogs down a little on my system doing the filtering, at least in Win9x. In W2K, it's not as noticable. The other, which is slightly more annoying, is that some websites send their pages using a gzipped encoding format, which WebWasher does *not* parse, and thus does *not* filter, allowing some pop-ups to come through. (Mozilla's built-in javascript filtering helps a lot here.)

 

[dascud]

I would recommend using mozilla 0.9.8. It has an option to prevent windows from opening by themselves. Takes care of pop up ads and you can even selectively block images from server.
No more blinking ad's screaming click me.

The really neat feature IMHO is the navigator tabs. You can also look at the mozdev project if you are interested in getting the googlebar for mozilla.

Da_scud

 

[marill999]

thx alot on the heads up!

 

[kesod]

justdad......Sorry for my late response to your question. I am using Windows 98 Second Edition.....Proxomitron works well with this O.S.

 

[kesod]

Proxomitron works fine with Netscape.....that's how I am using it.

 

[kesod]

You can have Proxomitron load automatically by adding the program to your Windows startup folder.

 

[RossMAN]

How are Proxomitron and Pop-Up Stopper different from each other?

I just installed Pop-Up Stopper and so far I like it.

 

[expresso]

I've used adware and also edit the host file in c:\windows\system, works great for me. I don't think it's a pop up killer so I'll give one of these programs a try.

Question: My brother's computer is running XP. He must have gotten onto some stupid website and installed a hidden program on his comp. Every once in awhile this sex dialer banner would pop up. I've used adware to try and remove stuff, but no use. It still reappears, worst of all is that it installs a german sex dialer program that I caught it automatically dials by itself! This is wrong!!!! I manually uninstall it, and sometime later I find it again. Good thing the phone line is restricted to local calls only!!!!!!

Anyone know how to fully remove this Sh*t?

 

[atwnsw]

I found that Promixitron prevented me from accessing certain web sites like www.epinions.com.

Otherwise, it worked great.

Has anybody else encountered this problem?

Thanks

Anthony