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Old November 15th 03, 07:12 PM
This Guy Here
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Recently, a newsgroup visitor to my site
(http://www.looknseephoto.com) reported that he experienced a lot of
pop-ups when visiting this site. Other people on the newsgroup
replied, indicating that they did not experience pop-ups there.

Let me assure you: there are no pop-ups associated with my site!

After checking with some tech gurus, I found that some pop-ups are
sneaky -- they don't pop up immediately; rather, they wait until you
surf to a few more pages before they pop up. That way, it is not
immediately clear where you picked up the pop up.

Also, since there are no pop-ups on this site and since other people
didn't experience pop-ups here, it is more probable that the victim
picked up some adware along the way.

The Good News: Unlike e-mail spam, there are some very effective ways
to protect yourself from pop-ups, adware, and spybots.

Here's What You Can Do:
Get yourself a pop-up blocker. Some ISPs (like mine, Earthlink)
offer pop-up blockers to their customers. Earthlink's pop-up
blocker hasn't failed me yet. If your ISP doesn't offer a pop-up
blocker, you can do an Internet search. I'm told that Google has
an excellent blocker that comes along with an add-on search
window for your browser. Alternatively, some browsers, like
Mozilla, have pop-up blockers built in. These blockers will stop
pop-ups cold.

Get that adware & spybots off your computer. There are two
applications that are free & very popular for this purpose:

Adaware (http://www.lavasoft.de)
Spybot Search & Destroy (http://security.kolla.de/)

Follow the instructions with these applications, keep the
definitions up date, and run them often (2-4 times a month).
Run both -- each catches bad guys that the other misses.

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Old November 25th 03, 12:21 AM
This Old Man
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Default How To Avoid Pop-Ups

Install google toolbar.

Pop-ups blocked. No spyware or beg screens.


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Old November 25th 03, 09:12 AM
Espen Stranger Seland
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25. Nov 2003 00.21 -- This Old Man:
Install google toolbar.

Pop-ups blocked. No spyware or beg screens.


Google toolbar IS spyware ;-)

Install Opera - it got everything you need.

-espen

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Old December 17th 03, 04:28 AM
Gunther Vergessen
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Default How To Avoid Pop-Ups

Use mozilla. Popup blocking is built-in.
 




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