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Good Popup Blocker?
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:33 am
by M715ForLife
Im getting pissed off at these damn things!
I need a good popup blocker, for Internet explorer.
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:25 am
by SpecOp44
Get Firefox.
As a bonus, you no longer need to use IE. Horray!
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:14 am
by M715ForLife
SpecOp44 wrote:Get Firefox.
As a bonus, you no longer need to use IE. Horray!
I have firefox, and I use it. My mom refuses to use it, even though its better.
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:32 am
by AbeFroman
tell her to use it or ninjas will ambush her next time she leaves the house
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:13 am
by Aumaan Anubis
That kitten with the sniper rifle would be terrifying enough for me to switch to Firefox...
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:57 pm
by SpecOp44
Tell her Internet Explorer had serious flaws, and presents a risk to her internet banking and transactions (if she does any of those).
Or, tell her hackers can screw over your computer by using IE as a window into your PC.
As long as your story has a reference to hackers, she'll consider switching. Because parents are predicable like that.
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 5:44 pm
by Cuda
SpecOp44 wrote:Tell her Internet Explorer had serious flaws, and presents a risk to her internet banking and transactions (if she does any of those).
Or, tell her hackers can screw over your computer by using IE as a window into your PC.
As long as your story has a reference to hackers, she'll consider switching. Because parents are predicable like that.
What he says is true. Worked with my mom on Norton, Kapersky, and Steam. Just get her on Firefox, Delete all of the Internet Explorer Shortcuts, and put AdBlock Plus on.
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:54 pm
by mr_penguin
Do the popups pop up at random or only when your browsing the web?
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:33 am
by M715ForLife
mr_penguin wrote:Do the popups pop up at random or only when your browsing the web?
When browsing.
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:15 am
by Geo
Sounds like you have spyware or something.
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:02 am
by bcnipod
Safari is not bad, I use Little Snitch to block pop-ups. I would say for a good one get one that can block by hostname, that way you can just kill all of them easily.
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:45 pm
by mr_penguin
Just use firefox and get adblock plus and leachblock.
I also found these two programs a while back and they both seem to help with removing spyware and ads.
When installing spybot don't install the tea timer because it may interfere when installing programs. Also Spy Hunter is detects it as a threat even though its not. Spybot has something called "Immunize," this helps block harmful web sites and cookies, I would check for immunize updates as much as possible if you can.
Spybot S&D:
http://www.spybotupdates.com/files/spybotsd160.exe
This program removed a popup problem I had. Seems to be the best ad blocker if your having problems getting rid of ads. But I'd recommend just using firefox because I never had any add problems with it.
Ad-Aware:
http://lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php
Always make sure your not deleting files you need when using these because some applications may be detected as a virus or something because of what they do. Some programs used for pirating may be detected as a virus.
If you need any help just pm me or post here.
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:15 pm
by xXxCocoFangxXx
Nub.
=]
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:07 pm
by M715ForLife
xXxCocoFangxXx wrote:Nub.
=]
No u. I got a 30...
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 7:23 pm
by xXxCocoFangxXx
Finally. Mr I'll be a staff captain the rest of my life.
=p
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:48 pm
by Xero
Whats a pop up?
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:22 pm
by M715ForLife
Xero wrote:Whats a pop up?
Thank you for contributing to my thread!
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:21 pm
by Cryticfarm
Delete all the IE shortcuts and replace them with firefox ones but rename them to IE and change the icon to the IE one. Then get the IE theme on your firefox. It's a bit different, but you can say its IE 7.1 or something.
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:29 pm
by xbox
Cryticfarm wrote:Delete all the IE shortcuts and replace them with firefox ones but rename them to IE and change the icon to the IE one. Then get the IE theme on your firefox. It's a bit different, but you can say its IE 7.1 or something.
I did that at school
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:27 pm
by sneakyn8
xbox wrote:Cryticfarm wrote:Delete all the IE shortcuts and replace them with firefox ones but rename them to IE and change the icon to the IE one. Then get the IE theme on your firefox. It's a bit different, but you can say its IE 7.1 or something.
I did that at school
i made my teacher freak out by changing her background to a screencap of a ton of windowsand moving all the icons to relatively off screen and then hiding the taskbar lol
but anyways scan for spyware/adware then take care of any problems there then make the upgrade to firefox