Thread: Pop Adds

Do a search for pop-up ads on this forum. Mudge gave some advice on how to shut off your messenger service which helped me. Ad-aware is a good program that removes spyware, but i needed to shut off the messenger to completely get rid of them.

go to google and download their search bar and that blocks everything, it pretty good

http://toolbar.google.com/

Best thing to do is runa firewall to block it all. Zonealarm pro is great.
http://download.com.com/3000-2092-10...ml?tag=lst-0-1

I also use the google toolbar and it works fairly well. But if you're looking to pay, a firewall may be the better solution.

as far as the stuff you can download for free....that google toolbar made a huge difference for me. may as well try that first.

Another vote for the Google bar! Mine currently says "5929 blocked."

I know how you feel. What is this google bar yall are talking about? Someone gimme details, but I don't want another bar on my browser.

For a few months now I have been pop up free but this past week has been the worst case I've had of popups since i-lookup got on my computer (gawd that sucked)

since that incedent it's been a war with me and popups, I hate them with a passion. I hate stuff getting on my computer without my permission, thinking they can download crap on my comp that I didn't ask for. I hate it.

So regardless, you seriously should download two must-have free programs onto your computer. The first one is called Spybot Search and Destroy. Use this link and click Download:
http://www.safer-networking.org/

next you will want Ad-Aware.
http://www.lavasoft.de/

once you start enjoying the feeling of a popup slowly being tortured and killed you can graduate to hijackthis.
http://s89223352.onlinehome.us/mirror/hjt/

that only trick to hijackthis is you will have to download the program, follow the directions precisely, then click on the messageboard forum on the left of the page, post your log that you get from hijackthis, and then follow their directions precisely that they give you.

The thing is that spybot S&D and Ad-Aware combined will most likely kill most if not all of your popups. But occasionally, like what happened to me this past week, you'll get an exception, a hijacker- a trojan. And they can't kill these mother fuckers. These are the Bin Ladin's on the war against popup terr-ar. That's when you need hijackthis. But if feels oh so good to kill these guys cuz you gotta go in and do it yourself, meaning a program doesn't just pick it out foryou and kill it. You have to go in the mountains and find the cave it's living in and kill it yourself. Personally, I love to find it and tell it how I've already deleted all of it's little popup buddies and his dream to fuck with my computer so that I can't look at porn without interuption or it telling me that I can save hundreds on penis enlargement pills or to play it's gawd dang video poker. Then once all it's hopes and dreams are diminished I delete some folders around it, "AM I NEXT?" it's thinking? But no, it's not that lucky. I'm gonna kill it's subfolders first. Then it's .exe files. Then, if it's lucky, I don't just leave it there, nothing but an empty folder name lost in a world of Program Files and Temporary Internet Files filled with fake nude pics of celebrities and the looping chorus of dancing hampsters for all eternity.

GOD I HATE POPUPS!!!

Stay away from the porn sites while you're taking your tests. j/k

Pop-up Stopper has work great for me. I also have the Google for added protection.

thanks guys, yes it was to block porn sites but dont tell anyone, o'k..

www.mozilla.org

download firefox.

Browser tha'ts just as fast as explorer, free, and automatically blocks popups. hell it even blocks the PM page that usually opens form the automatic notification on here as well.

i go to porn sites often enough and I dont get any pop ups with the google bar. Its coolio

^

i turned off my...totally free, i just did it myself

http://toolbar.google.com

Free, and handy.

Originally posted by draven
hell it even blocks the PM page that usually opens form the automatic notification on here as well.

Because it detects it as a popup, Google Toolbar does not do this if you set the page to allow popups which is done easily, or you can just turn off the popup Private Message notification.

I would love some freeware that would send a virus back to the pop-up add sending douche bags.

zonealarm.com