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Pop-up Killer
Posted: 2002-11-17 05:49pm
by Ted
What pop-up killers do you guys use?
And is panicware a good pop-up killer?
Posted: 2002-11-17 05:50pm
by Howedar
None.
Posted: 2002-11-17 05:51pm
by Kuja
None. Pop-ups aren't really that annoying for me.
Posted: 2002-11-17 05:52pm
by Shinova
IG-88E wrote:None. Pop-ups aren't really that annoying for me.
Except when closing one popup spawns a billion more. THAT is annoying.
Posted: 2002-11-17 05:52pm
by Stormbringer
I use popup stopper. It works well enough. A few get through occasionally. Only problem it tries to kill the PM popup on the board.
Posted: 2002-11-17 05:52pm
by Mike_6002
Panicware 2.4
Stop'ems dead like trolls that try to invade
Posted: 2002-11-17 05:58pm
by salm
i usually turn off java script before entering pop up infested teritorry.
but the proxomitron is supposed to be quite effective.
Posted: 2002-11-17 06:00pm
by Kuja
Shinova wrote:IG-88E wrote:None. Pop-ups aren't really that annoying for me.
Except when closing one popup spawns a billion more. THAT is annoying.
Aaaagh, that's the ONLY time I get pissed at popups.
Posted: 2002-11-17 06:02pm
by Raptor 597
I don't have one, I need one though.
Posted: 2002-11-17 06:06pm
by aerius
I use the joys of Opera browser which has the "disable popup windows" option. Kills'em dead good.
Posted: 2002-11-17 06:14pm
by Mr Bean
Twofold, Popup stoper for when I'm wading into KNOW Pop-up hell areas(No pop-ups, no new windows at all as a matter of fact) and for day to day use
POW
http://www.analogx.com/welcome.htm
Its a list based pop-up and there are downloadable lists less than 100k of around 8,000 styles of pop-ups, I got it last month and since then have seen a single pop-up, even when for fun I tested it by searching for cheats and warz versions of games I already have and I never got hit by a popup(And got hit by twenty to thirty a page when I turned it off to check)
Posted: 2002-11-17 06:18pm
by Faram
Mozilla.
Open preferenses / scripts and kill all da junk
Posted: 2002-11-17 06:36pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
Clicking Finger version 2.6
Posted: 2002-11-17 06:42pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
IG-88E wrote:Shinova wrote:IG-88E wrote:None. Pop-ups aren't really that annoying for me.
Except when closing one popup spawns a billion more. THAT is annoying.
Aaaagh, that's the ONLY time I get pissed at popups.
Or when you finally kill the shitstorm only to find a gigantic amount of crud on your desktop, that god damned Gator spyware auto-installed, your brand spanking new water-cooled overclocked AMD Thunderbird chugging and gushing out error messages like an old 286! It's not over yet; when you restart your browser you find your homepage reset to some porn site RayCav wouldn't touch and all your security settings pushed down as low as they can go (to ever so helpfully open the door to sneak 6875343589 MORE spywares onto your computer to, yes, make EVEN MORE POPUPS!!!)... But It STILL isn't over! Cut to a month later: you get a $600 phone bill (That's not as high as you think: I've seen $40000) because of a nice helpful program from Hell known as a Porn Dialer. OK you're prolly thinking I'm exaggerating, but it only LOOKS that way! I think
www.spywareinfo.com has the scoop on this bullshit...
Posted: 2002-11-17 06:46pm
by Raptor 597
Yeah, and Ad Aware is good for pop up's secret spyware. It can downloaded at
http://www.download.com Just do a search for Ad Aware.
Posted: 2002-11-17 06:50pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Better: Spybot Search and Destroy: htp://security.kolla.de
Posted: 2002-11-17 07:51pm
by TrailerParkJawa
I use Opera to browser the net. You can disable Java pretty easily. Even if you allow pop ups you can make them appear BEHIND the current window, so they dont annoy you as much.
Posted: 2002-11-17 08:05pm
by Exonerate
Right now, I'm using SilverBullet, but it only works for IE.
Posted: 2002-11-17 08:43pm
by Datana
I use Proxomitron. Works with all of my browsers, and I can disable it easily when it gets in the way. Its filters are also easily modifiable.
Posted: 2002-11-17 08:50pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
Shinova wrote:IG-88E wrote:None. Pop-ups aren't really that annoying for me.
Except when closing one popup spawns a billion more. THAT is annoying.
In which case the Alt-F4 combo comes in handy.
Posted: 2002-11-17 09:54pm
by Slartibartfast
I think Popup Stopper is the best, it's the more flexible (sometimes you want that POPUP to appear). I stopped using PKs when I started using Mozilla. Why kill popups if you can prevent them from appearing in the first place?
Posted: 2002-11-17 10:04pm
by Durandal
I use Chimera's built-in pop-up blocker. Chimera is a Gecko-based browser for OS X, so it has the pop-up blocking functionality built right in.
I've also modified my /etc/hosts file to include an extremely long list of hosts mapped to 0.0.0.0.
Posted: 2002-11-17 11:37pm
by phongn
Mozilla, and I also block a bunch of ad-image servers.
Posted: 2002-11-18 12:21am
by The Dark
Datana wrote:I use Proxomitron. Works with all of my browsers, and I can disable it easily when it gets in the way. Its filters are also easily modifiable.
I agree, Proxomitron works very well. I just need to remember to put it on automatic startup for when I have to reset my computer.