Re: removing popup windows

From: xpyttl (xpyttl_nospam_at_earthling.net)
Date: 06/05/03 

Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 07:55:13 -0400

The right answer is almost.

Don Keloway's reply seemed to indicate that popups may result from inbound
connections which can be blocked at the firewall ... this is NOT true.
Windows won't accept inbound web connections unless you add other software
to it. Linux must be configured to accept these connections. However,
there are almost no cases where a normal home user needs to accept inbound
connections. Good practice is to simply block all inbounds at the firewall,
and see what breaks. For most people, it will be nothing.

If you configure your browser to disallow JavaScript and ActiveX then you
should get no popups. However, most web sites won't work. Don also
mentioned Java which really isn't a big problem here, but it's good to be
cautious about it anyway.

However, if you block outbound connections to a relatively few sites at your
firewall, you can eliminate almost all popups. I say relatively few, but
the number is around 100. There are lists available on the net. This will
cause you to also miss out on some ads that aren't popups, since these same
sites provide most of the banners. I don't personally find this to be a big
problem, but it does leave ugly holes in some pages, oh well.

Most of the sites that are blocked are site whose sole purpose is delivering
annoying ads, so you won't miss much. However you will also need to block a
fair number of porn sites, which may or may not be a problem for you.

..

"Doug Fox" <dfox168@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:O0cDa.123874$cK1.73612@news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> Almost all prevention methods mentioned in google are to install 3rd party
> software.
>
> Is "content filtering", "firewall", etc. able to prevent popup?
>
> Thanks,
>
>

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