Anyone know a pop-up stopper that is worth a damn?

Xaem · Post by **Xaem** » September 7, 2003, 3:07 pm

Companies have figured out how to weasel their way around my current pop-up stopper, Panicware Pop-up Stopper Pro, in almost every single occurence of a pop-up. I was wondering if any of you knew of a good pop-up stopper to put an end to this atrocity. God its fucking annoying to get 6 or 7 adds after clicking a link to a "PAY HERE TO STOP ADDS" site.

Zygar_ Cthulhukin · Post by **Zygar_ Cthulhukin** » September 7, 2003, 3:12 pm

http://www.avantbrowser.com

It's a godsend.

Xaem · Post by **Xaem** » September 7, 2003, 3:31 pm

wow yeah this is pretty badass thanks

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » September 7, 2003, 4:14 pm

Thats a bloody amazing browser. I've been having the same problem as Xaem. Cheers for the link.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » September 7, 2003, 4:31 pm

Go to options in popup stopper and select aggresive popup control.

Also, actually pay for it instead of cracking it. If you use a cracked exe or a keygen they can check for it and they will start sending you tons of popups.

I bought popup stopper pro last year and I havent seen a popup since then, unless I turn it off.

Avant browser is shit. You cant even manage your favorites in the drag down menu and have to settle for where the browser wants to put them.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » September 7, 2003, 4:51 pm

Avant browser is shit. You cant even manage your favorites in the drag down menu and have to settle for where the browser wants to put them.

Other than the favorites functionality, which I agree is shit, I haven't noticed many other issues with Avant. I used to use Pop-Up Stopper but switched to Avant browser when it was mentioned here a year ago or so. It's good stuff although it does have some annoying quirks. Not having to bother with a separate program just for popups is nice.

Karae · Post by **Karae** » September 7, 2003, 5:33 pm

I've heard the Google toolbar popup blocker works well too...I use Avant personally.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » September 7, 2003, 6:13 pm

I use Avant as well. As for favorites, I don't have a single one.

Vaemas · Post by **Vaemas** » September 7, 2003, 6:46 pm

My Earthlink account has a built-in pop-up blocker...even though I don't actually dial in to Earthlink these days (thanks school T1!), it still works like a champ.

Vetiria · Post by **Vetiria** » September 7, 2003, 7:36 pm

I noticed with Avant that after using it for a while in one sitting, it freezes for a while when I hit the back button. I switched back to IE because it got so annoying.

Drustwyn · Post by **Drustwyn** » September 7, 2003, 7:39 pm

EMS freesurfer works well for me.

http://www.kolumbus.fi/eero.muhonen/FS/

I use the freeware version..mkII it called.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » September 7, 2003, 10:27 pm

I recently got roadrunner after moving back to school. I previously had DSL. Anywho, in the first 3 hour span of having it running, I was greeted with no less than 25 popups. The kicker is that every single popup was the exact same; an advertisement for a popup blocker. Apparently these bastards pay roadrunner to let those through.

I am currently shopping for another connection.

Janx · Post by **Janx** » September 7, 2003, 10:41 pm

Sounds like zamtuk still has messenger service enabled..

Mozilla 4 life!

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » September 7, 2003, 10:53 pm

bah fuck, forgot about that

Post by **Xouqoa** » September 7, 2003, 11:19 pm

Vetiria wrote:I noticed with Avant that after using it for a while in one sitting, it freezes for a while when I hit the back button. I switched back to IE because it got so annoying.

Get the newest version. (8.02 build 018) That was happening to me for a while too.. memory leak I guess.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » September 7, 2003, 11:24 pm

Karae wrote:I've heard the Google toolbar popup blocker works well too...I use Avant personally.

Google toolbar works great for pop up stopping. It's free, fast and extremely easy setup.

http://toolbar.google.com/

Kudo · Post by **Kudo** » September 8, 2003, 1:06 am

http://toolbar.google.com/

i love it
works good, and you can even let some pop ups come up, by pressing Ctrl+ clicking link will allow pop ups to come up. just incase you wanted some or something

Claritin-CT · Post by **Claritin-CT** » September 8, 2003, 1:17 am

Zamtuk if turning off messenger service doesn't clear up the problem completely.... run this http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10214 ... ag=lst-0-2

It's called Adaware... do the check for updates right away... it maintains a "DAT" file like a anti-virus program does. Lots of websites dump annoying pop-up inducing software hooks into your system.... and some apps do too... Kazaa does. If you use Kazaa Adaware will actually break it during the cleaning process... so replace Kazaa with this version http://www.kazaalite.tk/ it doesn't have the spyware.. and it sets you up with 1000 participation level. Normally i hate programs that allow jackasses not to share etc... but I was doing Kazaa the honest way for like 4 mths and I assure you it can't maintain a ratio correctly anyways... I could have 5 gigs downloaded from my machine and download 500 megs and loose 800 participation points in the process.... it was damn stupid.

Aruman · Post by **Aruman** » September 8, 2003, 4:43 am

This is the one I use and has a few other nice features:

http://www.myie2.com/html_en/home.htm