No more pop-ups.

[Lady Biker Florist]

After I switched to cable Internet I started receiving lots of pesky pop-ups every single time I clicked on Internet Explorer and well just all the time. Someone over at floristboard I think it was mentioned, no maybe it was here, well anyway, they mentioned the google taskbar remedy. Yeah it was here somewhere. I downloaded it and I have not received any pop-ups since then except maybe 3. It keeps track also, it says 679 pop-up ads were blocked. It has been wonderful. I hated those darn irritating things. Thank you to whoever suggested that.

Pop-up Free Pattyorttopor

 

[Peter1]

I believe I mentioned the Goggle popup killer. I helped beta test it, and if you want pop-ups you can allow them very easy for each specific site. I allow popups for Flowerchat.com for example.

 

[Lady Biker Florist]

Oh ok,

so that was you! Well, I have to say thank you indeed. I thought they'd never go away. I tried something someone mentioned from the other board and it worked for one day and then they all started coming back. I tried something I found while surfing one day and that didn't work either.

My husband has something he just recently purchased over the Internet and pays $7.95 monthly for that gets rid of spyware. I was quite supriesed at how many sites use your cookies to target you with junk email. No wonder I have 35-50 a day in my junk folder. Do you know of anything free to help with spyware? I don't like being nickel and dimed to death with small bills. Thanks!

Pattyorttopor cruising along

 

[Peter1]

You can try out Spybot, I've used that. I'll look for the website later when I'm home and post it.

Before the goggle pop-up killer I used another program called Free Surfer which worked nicely also for me, the google one is just a little bit nicer and faster in my opinion.

 

[theRKF]

I use both Free Surfer MkII ( www.download.com ) and the Google Toolbar. For spyware, I highly suggest a tag-team of Spybot Search and Destroy along with Ad-Aware. (both also available from www.download.com )

For an effective firewall, use Zonealarm. ( www.zonealarm.com )

Important note: Viruses most often infect by email BUT Worms get in through open "ports" on your system. You need a firewall.

Test your system at: http://security.symantec.com/default.asp?productid=symhome&langid=ie&venid=sym