Re: Re: Getting rid of popups
From: anonymous (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/28/03
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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:20:22 -0800
test your popup programs...
visit any of these sites.
www.raymondjames.com
www.fontemporium.com
www.fontisland.com
www.televisioncommercials.com
www.i-love-cats.com
www.i-love-dogs.com
www.londonrecords.co.uk
www.southlondonart.com
www.howtoloveyourdog.com
www.websearch4u.com
www.abcjokes.com
www.jokes-central.com
www.hostultra.com
www.CyberBrowse.com
www.omkc.com
www.1alljokes.com
www.coolbuddy.com
www.dailypuzzler.com
www.findonline.com
www.undiscoveredlands.com
www.pumpkin.co.uk
www.miatrade.net
www.travelnotes.org
www.pinballpalace.com
http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/JokEc.html
www.etla.fi/pkm/joke.html
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>-----Original Message-----
>Paul,
>I do alot of wandering around the net and pop-ups used
to dive me
>crazy...but since the install of two programs, I have
had two pop-ups in the
>last year (Both were the blue card from American
Express), even those stupid
>X-10 spy camera ones did not get thru.
>So try these;
>
>The First one, "Spybot" is freeware ( it has a donations
page if you want
>to) This will not actively block anything, but it keeps
track of all the spy
>and tracker type cookies that get on your system. The
function is called
>"Search and Destroy", I found over 600 tracking type
cookies on mine and
>just told it to delete all of them. I get a few more
each day, but kill
>those. Spam mail has now gone way down and pop-ups
seemed to be almost cut
>in half
>
>Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.2
>Application to scan for spyware, adware, hijackers and
other malicious
>software.
>http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download
>
>Next for the heavy duty filtering/firewall. Zone Alarm
is available as a
>freebie download (I think time limited) or a regular
full version. This one
>has totally stopped all pop-ups and 90% of Spam mail as
it hides your IP
>when you are looking around, it has a very good range of
how you can set it
>up and also, it blocks any virus type email attachment (
I have never gotten
>a virus since adding this) and also keeps track if a
remote computer is
>trying to scan your ports for information. This last one
surprised me as I
>find I will get around 10 per day that try, but Zone
Alarm blocks them. I
>get tons of these from Korea, China and Middle Europe.
>
>ZoneAlarm; Regular and Pro-Versions
>http://www.zonelabs.com/store/application?
namespace=zls_catalog&origin=global.jsp&event=link1.skuLis
t&&zl_catalog_view_id=201&lid=nav_db
>
>So that's my 2 cents, both of these have really made the
net a much nicer
>place for me !
>Tedd
>
>--
>Tedd Riggs
>
>"Paul Gilbert" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message
>news:031701c3cb15$99414850$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> Popups plague my computer. Appareantly spyware is on
the
>> computer...which is an ME.
>>
>> What is the best (free?) approach to getting rid of the
>> spyware and popups?
>>
>> What is the best program to use?
>>
>> Advice, directions will be appreciated.
>>
>> Paul Gilbert in Mukilteo, WA
>
>
>.
>
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