Re: OT? Need software to Kill those Pop-Up Porno sites

From: Meself (meself@SpareChange.mon)
Date: 04/20/02 

From: Meself <meself@SpareChange.mon>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 03:31:32 GMT

GG <glasgowgal@nowhere.com> wrote in
news:r5m1cuce72fcoa9sqavbvi1h89992jj0qa@4ax.com:

> Have you ever innocently surfed into a website that has pop-up after
> pop-up of porn sites and you cannot shut down your web browser and
> have to reboot the computer.

Noooo. Not while innocently surfing. Unh un.

> This happened in front of my child today.

That's not good. Lots of software will block pop-ups. Many of the newer
version browsers (eg Opera6, Mozilla, both freeware) will. Some firewalls
will (Outpost, also freeware). Why load another program when one you are
using will do the job? If no one gives you the program you want, try
searching Google news to see what's been mentioned before (try
alt.comp.freeware for ideas). Since you're asking in
comp.security.firewalls, do you use a firewall? If no, get Outpost (at
agnitum.com): also has ad blocking, content blocking, and a lot of security
settings for email and web sites. 

-- 
(Bob: remove the spam and e me @ rthespamandcook@telus.net)

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