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How To Avoid Pop-Ups
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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How To Avoid Pop-Ups
Install google toolbar.
Pop-ups blocked. No spyware or beg screens. |
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How To Avoid Pop-Ups
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 -- All generalisering er farlig. |
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How To Avoid Pop-Ups
Use mozilla. Popup blocking is built-in.
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