Better yet, just go out and get a Belkin 4-Port Gateway Router for Cable/DSL and hook your modem up to it. Most routers come with NAT ( Network Address Translation ) and for about $39.95 with rebates, you will be able to HIDE your IP address from any website that you cruise to, and it will prevent pop-ups from occurring. I installed a Router last month and cut down on my pop-ups by 99%.
I recommend Spybot, similar to Ad Aware. http://beam.to/spybotsd After you install it, download the updates first, then do a scan on your system. It'll clean out the junk that is installed, which causes pop ups(Unless you visit a website, which generates a pop up). For that I like the popup stopper at http://www.panicware.com
Don't waste your time with add-on's that take up storage and slow your system Try the Opera browser. Among its many other great features it has a pop-up blocker feature built in to it. Overall it just beat the pants off of Internet Explorer. It's MUCH MUCH faster, better organized and more efficient than the other browsers on the market. http://www.opera.com/ Try it out. You won't be sorry. Dr. Zhivodka
Question for the Dr. above Does the free version of Opera work as you mentioned or just the purchased one? Also, what about the messenger pop ups that come through your computer even when no browser is open?, The only way I've been able to prevent these is to disconnect. rossmedia
try adware, you can get it from lavasoft.com, it searches your hard drive and cleans up the little viruses that allow random popups.
Yes, the free version of Opera is the same as the paid. The other messaging you're seeing is due to the settings in your OS itself. It is the Windows messaging system that needs to be looked at. I fixed mine but I forget now what I changed. Do a search here, I think I remember seeing a solution posted here many months ago. Good Luck
Wow. What insight, I really appreciate it. That opera browser is tons better than Netscape, IE, and all that other over proprietized stuff. I'll try to find the setting to fix the messaging problems. Thanks. rossmedia
Check out slimbrowser from www.flashpeak.com , too. Besides the pop-up-blocker function I really like the "group function" which allows you to open up several of your preferred windows and navigate through it with easy tabs.
I think that you will still be better off to run ad-aware or spysweeper or something like that to clean some of the spyware cookies off your machine. http://www.lavasoftusa.com They have a free version. ad-aware 6