I am in POP-UP HELL!!!! - Page 3

Timber Loftis · 08-21-2003, 05:23 PM

I'm doing better now. No pops for a bit now. Rokenn, I'm actually the guy who knows enough to tell you what he did do wrong when he calls.

Plus, most of your clients don't have a community of egg-heads to query and use for self-help troubleshooting.

I actually may have fixed the durned thing.

Thanks, folks. I'll address these issues more tomorrow. Gotta go. [img]graemlins/shooter18.gif[/img]

Faceman · 08-21-2003, 05:44 PM

ZoneAlarm or NortonFirewall or other personal firewalls (not the WinXP integrated though) will block banner ads and commercial pop-ups while leaving normally opened windows (i.e. right after you click a link) alone.
Use Ad-Aware to remove any spyware and get rid of the XP-Messenger tool either manually or with some XPTweakTool.

Chewbacca · 08-21-2003, 05:57 PM

I had to use RegCleaner to kill one particularly stubborn pop-up maker that adware,norton, and spybot didnt get and it drove my firewall nuts with blocked out-goings. Of course this is only reccomended if your not afraid to remove things from the registry as this can have VERY bad results if you don't know what your doing. Freaking pop-ups.

Harkoliar · 08-22-2003, 12:18 AM

used to have that problems. the adware prog worked like a charm.

IAmThumper · 08-22-2003, 07:56 PM

I use Mozilla and it has it's own popup killer. I haven't had any problems with pop ups. I used to have a problem with popups which was caused by all things the software my isp wanted me to install for the DSL modem. Here I'm paying for the bandwidth and they wanted me to waste it downloading stupid ads! Luckily XP handles DSL modems just fine.
I'm glad Mozilla blocks unrequested popups since I don't like having yet another program running on my machine gobbling up memory.
Be sure to let us know what the cause was!

Reeka · 08-23-2003, 01:29 PM

Surf Secret also has a pop-up killer and you can get a free 30-day trial, which I am using at the moment. It seems to be working beautifully and I think the program is only $9.95 if you decide to keep it

08-21-2003, 05:23 PM	#21
Timber Loftis 40th Level Warrior Join Date: July 11, 2002 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 11,916	I'm doing better now. No pops for a bit now. Rokenn, I'm actually the guy who knows enough to tell you what he did do wrong when he calls. Plus, most of your clients don't have a community of egg-heads to query and use for self-help troubleshooting. I actually may have fixed the durned thing. Thanks, folks. I'll address these issues more tomorrow. Gotta go. [img]graemlins/shooter18.gif[/img] __________________

08-21-2003, 05:44 PM	#22
Faceman Hathor Join Date: February 18, 2002 Location: Vienna Age: 42 Posts: 2,248	ZoneAlarm or NortonFirewall or other personal firewalls (not the WinXP integrated though) will block banner ads and commercial pop-ups while leaving normally opened windows (i.e. right after you click a link) alone. Use Ad-Aware to remove any spyware and get rid of the XP-Messenger tool either manually or with some XPTweakTool. __________________ \"I am forever spellbound by the frailty of life\"<br /><br /> Faceman

08-21-2003, 05:57 PM	#23
Chewbacca Zartan Join Date: July 18, 2001 Location: America, On The Beautiful Earth Age: 50 Posts: 5,373	I had to use RegCleaner to kill one particularly stubborn pop-up maker that adware,norton, and spybot didnt get and it drove my firewall nuts with blocked out-goings. Of course this is only reccomended if your not afraid to remove things from the registry as this can have VERY bad results if you don't know what your doing. Freaking pop-ups. __________________ Support Local Music and Record Stores! Got Liberty?

08-22-2003, 12:18 AM	#24
Harkoliar Jack Burton Join Date: March 21, 2001 Location: Philippines, but now Harbor City Sydney Age: 41 Posts: 5,556	used to have that problems. the adware prog worked like a charm. __________________ Catch me if you can..

08-23-2003, 01:29 PM	#26
Reeka Ma'at - Goddess of Truth & Justice Join Date: March 2, 2001 Location: Birmingham, Alabama, USA Age: 70 Posts: 3,255	Surf Secret also has a pop-up killer and you can get a free 30-day trial, which I am using at the moment. It seems to be working beautifully and I think the program is only $9.95 if you decide to keep it __________________ <b>Order of the Holy Flame</b><br /><i>Member of Clan HADB</i><br /><b>Laughing Hyena</b><br /><i>Clan Liaison, IW Peace Keeping Force</i><br /><i>[url]\"http://www.the-silver-river.com/Forum/index.php?board=29\" target=\"_blank\">The Silver River VoiceChat!</a><br />Last Saturday of every month. <br />See the forum link for scheduling!<br /><b> </b><br /></i><br /><b>Admin and Co-Owner of [url]\"http://www.the-silver-river.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Silver River</a></b><br />[url]\"http://www.the-silver-river.com\" target=\"_blank\"></a>

08-22-2003, 07:56 PM	#25
IAmThumper Dungeon Master Join Date: May 19, 2003 Location: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada Age: 50 Posts: 93	I use Mozilla and it has it's own popup killer. I haven't had any problems with pop ups. I used to have a problem with popups which was caused by all things the software my isp wanted me to install for the DSL modem. Here I'm paying for the bandwidth and they wanted me to waste it downloading stupid ads! Luckily XP handles DSL modems just fine. I'm glad Mozilla blocks unrequested popups since I don't like having yet another program running on my machine gobbling up memory. Be sure to let us know what the cause was!

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