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Harry Letterman · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:17 am Post subject: The BEST Popup Blocker

Well, which one is it? I have both the Google & Yahoo! Toolbars on IE 6 and I still get a few popups. I wonder if the new Google Toolbar will have an improved blocker........
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Nick · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:33 am Post subject:

AD-Shield is the best pop-up blocker if you use Internet Explorer. When I use IE, I get no pop-ups that I don't want, period. You can also import block lists for it and customize it with your own entries. Probably the most powerful content filter avalable for IE. The only bad side is that it isn't fre anymore.

http://www.ad-shield.com/index.html
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Harry Letterman · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:40 am Post subject:

Devilin · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:44 am Post subject:

http://www.endpopups.com/index.html

The best free popupkiller

Never trust a toolbar, there all inherently spyware of some sort

Mmmmmm AD-Shield, I haven't tested this one yet Laughing

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Harry Letterman · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:54 am Post subject:

Hi Devilin,

Thanks so much for the EndPopups link. I will D/L it today.

Forgive me for going OT, but I wonder if you follow either Formula One (F1), World Rally Championship (WRC) or British Touring Car Championship (BTCC)? You might care to take a look at my post in the Introductions forum.

Pleasure meeting you,

Harry
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Cruzin · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:21 pm Post subject:

I am using mozilla 1.7b. I do not get popups, have not seen one since I used Mozilla. If choose it can be set to see no advertisements at all. No flash No animated gifs Nada Nothing! Laughing

Mozilla/firefox propably the best popup blocker there is. Cool

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wawadave · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:23 pm Post subject:

i use firefox. what are these pop ups and add,s that your all talking about??
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3162 · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 2:32 pm Post subject:

Opera here. Select "open requested pop-ups only" eg 'click here to see a larger image' or 'opens in new window'
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Jeff007 · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:24 pm Post subject: The Best Pop up Blockers

I use the one Devilin recommends, but it does let one or two get through, something from Monster.com and another from the University of Phoenix. Whenever that happens, it's a sure sign I had neglected to run Ad-aware 6.0. Now if Popup Manager would just let me customize, I could stop those also.
Or maybe reroute them to France? Wink

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Devilin · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 6:11 pm Post subject:

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Moore · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 6:42 pm Post subject:

There was still a free version of adshield available , but it's an earlier version , listed in this old thread at Wilders which also has a lot of good options to try.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=15399

Most good browsers have pop up blockers though as part of their features and cover a good amount of general popups, I have settled on Crazy Browser , I like its blocklist , so I can add whatever I like to it.

A good firewall with popup blocking always helps and Admuncher/ Proxomitron are very good too.

IEspyads also targets a lot of crap including popups , and is definitely worth using , [as recommended by every sane person in any decent forum Wink

Devilin · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 2:33 am Post subject:

Harry Letterman · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 2:40 am Post subject:

Moore · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 6:29 am Post subject:

Ah well , can only try to help .. spyware censorship is ok with most people Cool

dnewhous · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 10:21 am Post subject:

rrrh1 · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 3:17 pm Post subject: Best Popup Blocker

Popup Killer Review

I found this site that test popup killers:

http://www.popup-killer-review.com/index.htm

IMHO
Mozilla Firefox 0.92 with the adblock extension takes care of most everything.

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dnewhous · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 3:23 pm Post subject:

rottentomatoes.com is a site with links to movie reviews, I bring it up because the web site operates on pop-up functionality; the reviews that pop-up (when you click on a link) are from other web sites. I won't be interested in a pop killer until I find one that doesn't screw that site up. I tried something from Panicware once that 1) blocked the reviews 2) when I held down the keys to allow the pop up my computer froze up.
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Nick · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 3:48 pm Post subject:

Both IE with Ad Shield and Firefox didn't block the review sites that I clicked on for I, Robot on the rottontomatoes page. Both of them don't block user initiated "pop ups" only those that are scripted or otherwise brought up without the user directly clicking on something.

At the bottom of this page there are several tests that you can use to see how the pop up blocker is doing: http://www.popup-killer-review.com/test.htm#

Firefox and Ad-Shield passed all of them. I didn't do the unfathered one, as you need to download something for that test.
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dnewhous · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 3:59 pm Post subject:

Thanks for testing.
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Nick · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 4:22 pm Post subject:

Just noticed that the link I posted was already posted. I've had the test page in my favorites for some time now. Although, they didn't have the google ads last time I went there.

Jason Levine's page for browser tests is about browser security, but there are also som tests for pop ups as well http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/BrowserSecurity/table-of-contents.asp?

Fred Langa has a great page to test all aspects of a browser http://www.browsertune.com/bt2kfast/
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Harry Letterman · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 1:48 pm Post subject:

Nick · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 2:35 pm Post subject:

Hmm, looks interesting. I'll try it out and see how it goes. It may take awhile before I report what I find, as I'm super busy this week.
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mikey · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 4:15 pm Post subject:

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Nick · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:38 pm Post subject:

NetWidow · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 8:23 am Post subject:

mikey · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 10:06 am Post subject:

"I had a feeling you'd bring up the Prox."

sing it loud...sing it proud! Smile

"content filter"
Just going a little OT here;

Actually, when you think about it, all the tools we use to proactively defend our sys are 'content filters'. Resident AVs, FWs, sandboxes, proxies, blockers X, y, & z...they all filter content. Even the peripheral tools like IDS tools are just to prepare new filters. Smile

Personally, I prefer proaction over reaction. Does anyone really believe it's good for the sys to have malware killers ripping the guts out periodically? Judging from what I see every day, it sure would seem so.

Harry Letterman · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:10 pm Post subject:

tallbballman21 · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 2:36 pm Post subject:

about a week ago i switched to firfox browser from IE and i havnt had a pop-up since