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[Roadblock]

It wasn't personal Abou. Everybody is entitled to a certain amount of "style" as it were. It just makes it harder on old farts like me who are trying to understand you. It's all good.

[Lion7718]

I have a program that searches all the Crack Sites for me..just like a P2P..I use that 1st...I trust it more. A good Popup Stopper will stop the porn pops..and set your Java Script to Ask..will stop anything from being downloaded...which some will try to do.

[Fister]

good advice lion, also use whenever you get somethin from a warez site scan it before you open it. note, those automatic install p0rn dialer things can corrupt your HD ...

[Roadblock]

Google can "find" almost anything you ask it to, if ya know what to ask for. :wink3

I use either myIE2, or Opera which block pop-ups you don't want. I also use the HOSTS file that comes with SpyBot S&D and that takes care of most anything else. With my set up, Pop-ups and Porn Dialers are something I don't have to worry about.

[ABOU]

hey rb its ok i know, and well bad habbits die hard but im going to change :smilewink

yeah i found that i can block popups using zone alarm but this just gives me another popup on the bottom telling me what is being blocked

yeah the dialer thing them things are anoying i hate them and the files are not always trustworthy

i find that if you find a site that has the actual guy that makes say the keygen and it is trustworthy that all of his stuff will be good

[Roadblock]

There is an option in ZA to turn off the popup notification when it blocks something. Look for it, I think u will find it. I use Sygate now, so I can't remember exactly where that setting is. Some of the others can tell you I am sure.

[ABOU]

cheers RB i no there are options like that i just cant be bothered lookin for them i am a lazy git u no how it is lol

My norton internet security stops all of the pop ups, and I have found that the sites that are now giving the message "you are using a pop up blocker. disable the popup blocker to view this page" dont seem to pick it up like with the popup blockers I have used in the past. I dont mind banners on web pages but the popups make me crazy. I was at one site and they had Gator, well it just so happened that it slipped through the norton(I fixed that real quick)and it popped up so that the yes button was right over the download button on the page. I almost DL gator. needless to say I dont DL anything from there now.

[ABOU]

yeah finnies-wife i agree i dont mind banners or even 1 popup you know just when the page loads for the first time but not on every page just say the home page

right well this seems to be a secureity thread now so why dont we post are fav pop up blockers and firewalls ect i think that would be good to see your choice :smilewink

[Kungfucious]

I use Guard-IE v2.3 (found on your fave p2p) with Symantic Firewall.

The both work really well.. my only complaint would be the Guard IC stops ALL popups, even legitimate ones which you click on, even though u can open a page by holding ctrl to bypass the block, it gets tiresom when your browsing a site which uses pop up windows.

Symantic firewall is really good too, though it reports alot of incoming trojans, which are mostly false alarms.

anyway thats my 2 cents/pennies worth.

adz

[blackspawn]

Originally posted by aa1979
Symantic firewall is really good too, though it reports alot of incoming trojans, which are mostly false alarms.

LOl if I had a 1$ for every alarm Norton's Firewall give me (and I only checked for it to report the more "serious" one).... humm I'd be swiming in it!

[Roadblock]

If you use SpyBot Search and Destroy, it has it's own version of the "HOSTS" file you can install. That way, even if your blocker misses one, likely all you will then get is a blank page, since your altered HOSTS file keeps your PC from connecting back to the popup's IP. That is what I use, in addition to myIE2 and Opera browsers which blocks all popups except the ones that you specify to let in. Maybe, someday. Uncle Bill will finally get the message and add that feature to IE. On second thought, maybe not...... :wink3

[ABOU]

lol i think bill knows but he dont care he is a hosehold name you think computers you think microsoft but hey there are alteritives i think he is just giving the others a chance :p

[blackspawn]

If I had 98% of the market share in browsers and I had that with a 2 year old browser (less security fixes) then I too would sit on my ass.... LOL
I guess they're going to improve IE in Longhorn (at least I hope so) if not there's always good alternatives (although I personally haven't tried them... IE is so embbebed in XP that I dare not touch it...)

Anyway any good personal firewall out there has the ability to block hosts (may be easier or harder to do that depending on the firewall) so a PF is all you really need, and ofcourse there's the safety issue too

[cowmomo]

Originally posted by Roadblock
If you use SpyBot Search and Destroy, it has it's own version of the "HOSTS" file you can install.

Hey RB, is that what that IMMUNIZE function is all about in the new Spybot?