Well ive tried em all basicly, and none have works so hassle free than Panic Wares Pop-Up Blocker!
Its free from the link below, and it really does work a charm! Loadsa setting to play with to set how you want, very simple to use, and doesnt take up hardly any system resorces!
Well you could get hold of a legitimat copy of KaZaA lite and then download a Legitamate copy of NPF2003...
no the Norton personal firewall ad blocker is superb, dad bought the software and i borrowed it
the Service Pack 2 for windows XP is pretty damn good - the firewall is vastly imporved and blocks all kind of things and tells you about it without being intrusive - give that a go.
Also, i shoulda added this in my first post there is a great free firewall, its got regulaur free updates and is the best out of all the ones i've tried for sure! Its very simple to use and setup right.
Now 3 of my friends with very valuble software and data on there hard drives use this over Norton, Mcafe and PC-Cillin! So it must be doing something right. Its also recommended strongly by PCFormat!
cool, thanks for that guys, i think that the new IE popup blocker included with sp2 is excellent, but the machine i'm working on is 2k. will give the google toolbar ago.