POP UPS!!

Cool Cow · Post by **Cool Cow** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 2:53 pm

The evil things known as pop ups are invading my computer! I can hardly get on anymore because of them and I cant find a reliable free Pop upblocker Pop upzilla doesnt work it just tells you what pop ups you where hit by.

Demonic Spartan · Post by **Demonic Spartan** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 6:45 pm

Get this...I have it, and it always seems to work fine.

http://toolbar.google.com/

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 6:53 pm

If you have Win XP, you can use the Google toolbar untill the next service pack which will patch IE to include a built in popup blocker. If you think that you somehow installed spyware (ex:Gator

), search for a program called "Spybot Search & Destroy".

If the popups are from a program called "Windows Messageing Service", all you have to do is disable the windows service called "Messenger".

D3V0N · Post by **D3V0N** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 10:23 pm

Also, using mozilla firebird you don't get almost any pop-ups.

Demonic Spartan · Post by **Demonic Spartan** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:17 am

Google toolbar = absolutely NO popups. I never get any now, and using it for about a week I blocked 88 popups.

kaptainkommie · Post by **kaptainkommie** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:21 am

Its probably more likely he's talking about Windows Messaging Service popups. To disable the Messenger service on 2k OR XP goto Start>run>services.msc -- Find messenger, goto properties and stop it, then set it to disabled.

If you actually use these messages for communication inside your local network then you can simply block inbound NetBIOS access.

The Messenger service uses UDP ports 135, 137, and 138; TCP ports 135, 139, and 445; and an ephemeral (that is, short-lived) port number greater than 1024.

So if you block those ports from outside acccess, your internal network will function properly, but you won't get more annoying messages from Ad spammers.

exodus 88 · Post by **exodus 88** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:46 pm

no more goat porn man

Retro_Boy · Post by **Retro_Boy** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 6:06 am

Exodus 88 wrote:no more goat porn man

Not really funny at all....

I use Mozilla Firefox (Version 8, use to be called Firebird)
But my IE is equipped with Goggole Toolbar, it's cool.

And you probably have Spyware installed on your system.... Get SpyBot Search & Destroy and download the updates for it and scan.

EqUiNoX · Post by **EqUiNoX** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 6:11 am

Demonic Spartan wrote:Google toolbar = absolutely NO popups. I never get any now, and using it for about a week I blocked 88 popups.

unless u have spyware or adware,,,they can be a pain...

Greed · Post by **Greed** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:38 pm

I had the same problem a while ago. Nothing sucked more than getting pop-ups while I was not even logged in on the internet. Personally, if it is really that bad I think its probably ad-ware. Sometimes you can do virus scans for these (Norton checks for these and blocks them as well). Also there is a great pop-up and spyware catcher called Spybot (http://www.safer-networking.org/). Its a free program so you don't have to worry about paying for it and I think it works better than some of the comercial versions out there. I don't know if that will help, but good luck with your problem...

Seki Ryuu · Post by **Seki Ryuu** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:42 pm

i got a free program called ad-aware (www.ad-aware.com i think) : it scans ur C drive for that gator stuff and tracking cookies

now i have a problem that might be spyware, but when i type, particularly on my net browser, and most of the time typing on another program while my browser is running, my font goes to caps without the caps lock light on, my font changed completely, sometimes i just hit 1 letter key and some search window pops up and stuff.........

what is that crap?!