Re: Zone Alarm does not stop these types of pop ups?

From: David Qunt (IainMcLaren35_at_spamtwatter.hotmail.com)
Date: 07/30/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:02:01 GMT

DesertRat@mchsi.com squirted these wordjisms deep inside the bumtube of
the newstwat in news:io1eivsifasdl0hr81u6ufeh55imijj8h5@4ax.com:

> On 28 Jul 2003 19:58:42 -0700, shepard97504@yahoo.com (Shepard Tate)
> wrote:
>
>>To see the pop up ads I am referring to, please go to
>>http://athletics.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp?c_id=oak . The
>>"specificPOP" window loads in the background after the main web site
>>window starts to load. What is bad about this particular one, (usually
>>from expedia.com), is that each time you navigate to another page
>>within the MLB web site, you get another pop up. Sometimes after
>>visiting around the site, you have 10 or 15 of these "specificPOP" ads
>>open on your desktop.
>>
>>I have talked to MLB.com and they are not interested in the issue.
>>Originally I thought it was just something that was a problem with our
>>computer, but it only happens for us on the mlb.com web site.
>>
>>I have covered this with ZA Tech Support and they tell me that Zone
>>Alarm Pro will not stop this type of annoying pop up. I find that
>>kind of hard to believe as that is one of the main reasons we bought
>>ZA. We are not very tech oriented, so can't solve the problem
>>ourselves.
>>
>>Thanks for any help
>>
>>-Anna and Shepard
>
> What do you expect from Zone Labs & Zone Alarm Pro? In this case,
> if you paid for Zone Alarm Pro, you don't get what you paid for - you
> can kiss your money good bye. Your best bet is to get a real firewall
> and and good anti-popup software. You NEVER will get satisfaction
> from Zone Labs...
>
> I'm using:
> Kerio Personal Firewall & Guard-IE and they work great together.
>
> DR
>
> PS: Beware of the Zone Lab groupies that hang out here and will
> try and tell you that Zone Alarm is the greatest thing in the world -
> they are full of themselves...

I use the firewall features of ZAPro, which I find work well - but don't
bother with their privacy features, they stop too many sites from working
properly.

Instead I use Opera for my main browsacle and Mozilla as a secondary
browser and for mail.

And the result I never see any fucking pop-ups. :) 

-- 
Iain McLaren
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