Good Popup Blocker?

M715ForLife · Post by **M715ForLife** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:33 am

Im getting pissed off at these damn things!

I need a good popup blocker, for Internet explorer.

SpecOp44 · Post by **SpecOp44** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:25 am

Get Firefox.

As a bonus, you no longer need to use IE. Horray!

M715ForLife · Post by **M715ForLife** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:14 am

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.

AbeFroman · Post by **AbeFroman** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:32 am

tell her to use it or ninjas will ambush her next time she leaves the house

Aumaan Anubis · Post by **Aumaan Anubis** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:13 am

That kitten with the sniper rifle would be terrifying enough for me to switch to Firefox...

SpecOp44 · Post by **SpecOp44** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:57 pm

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.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 5:44 pm

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.

mr_penguin · Post by **mr_penguin** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:54 pm

Do the popups pop up at random or only when your browsing the web?

M715ForLife · Post by **M715ForLife** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:33 am

mr_penguin wrote:Do the popups pop up at random or only when your browsing the web?

When browsing.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:15 am

Sounds like you have spyware or something.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:02 am

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.

mr_penguin · Post by **mr_penguin** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:45 pm

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.

xXxCocoFangxXx · Post by **xXxCocoFangxXx** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:15 pm

Nub.

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M715ForLife · Post by **M715ForLife** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:07 pm

xXxCocoFangxXx wrote:Nub.

=]

No u. I got a 30...

xXxCocoFangxXx · Post by **xXxCocoFangxXx** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 7:23 pm

Finally. Mr I'll be a staff captain the rest of my life.

=p

Xero · Post by **Xero** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:48 pm

Whats a pop up?

M715ForLife · Post by **M715ForLife** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:22 pm

Xero wrote:Whats a pop up?

Thank you for contributing to my thread!

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:21 pm

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.

xbox · Post by **xbox** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:29 pm

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

sneakyn8 · Post by **sneakyn8** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:27 pm

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