Pop-ups Threatening My Honor!

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William

It seems that every single one of the 30 or so pop-up
ads that I have to click through every morning are from a
service claiming to stop pop-up ads. This smells vaguely
of extortion, insults my intelligence and generally
pisses me off. Are there other options available to me
that will stop these cursed pop-up ads without forcing me
to give in to these pests?
I realize that this will sound petty to many of you
but I assure you I am dead serious. I would almost
rather put up with it than give these cretins a single
click. I was sort of hoping against hope that Explorer
might have some built in options that would filter this
crap out. Are there any heroes out there that can help
me beat these cyber-hemorroids? Thanks in advance for
catering to my mania.
 
Yes there are free utilities to do the same or better, heck even investing
in Zone Alarm Firewall would help even though the free versions won't stop
popups... but there are some simple settings you can make to help stop this
infestation and a couple of utilities to try out which may explain a lot.
Please do read the instructions well and I suggest a dummy run with default
settings (and then just exit without changing anything) to note what's found
and if necessary ask questions.
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More Secure ActiveX Settings
http://www.tames.net/security/activexsettings.htm
Help Removing Parasites and AdWare
www.lavasoftusa.com
http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=about
http://www.spywareguide.com/product_list_full.php

Charlie
 
If they are small grey boxes, like Messenger service notifications, see this site for possible help: http://www.jmu.edu/computing/security/info/winmsg.shtml

If they are regular IE window pop-ups....

Get Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoft.de with the latest reference file (they have an automatic updater tool there, too) and run it. Could be spyware/malware/adware causing this issue.

If no joy, in IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab, Browsing section, uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions", click Apply, click Okay, reboot. If that solves your problem, then more troubleshooting is needed to find out exactly which program, or Browser Helper Object (BHO) is causing this problem. You don't want to leave it at that, as some BHOs are useful or necessary - like Adobe Acrobat for reading .pdf files or an essential component of Norton AV. Get BHODemon: http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm - read all about BHOs, download link is at the bottom. Then uncheck all items, and then gradually replace one or two at a time to narrow down the culprit.

If no joy, go to Start...Run, "msconfig", StartUp tab and see if there is anything there that looks suspicious. You will also see the path where that program is starting from.

See this site for more information on pop-ups and possible hijacking of your system: http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#pop_up
 
I agree completely with your sentiment. Fortunately, a couple of months ago
I found this extremely effective and very unobtrusive little freeware
program called PopupManager.

I had tried about a half dozen others before stumbling upon this one. All
the others required much too much hand-holding.

Get it, you'll like the result!

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

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David G. Wilson
Triune Computer Services
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