Stopping pop-ups ?

Gaz

Can someone recommend me a programme to stop pop-ups ?
Thanks !

Meh

This works great for me...

Celt

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/pow.htm

mike65

Use Opera! (well it had to do something better than IE...)

Mike.

Dun

Zone Alarm works great at blocking pop-ups for me, although there are the odd couple of sites where a pop-up is part of the normal "functioning" of the site. Though why anyone would do it is beyond me - I'm in the habit of closing a pop-up before it loads up, so I end up closing it anyway.

magick

or you can try this one
http://www.panicware.com/process_download.html?prdid=PSFREE

i just downloaded it tonight and it works quiet well.

po0k

http://www.opera.com

Works a treat.

uch

I also use POP-UP stopper and it works a treat, and it's very simple to use.

pickarooney

www.meaya.com has a nice popup filter program too.

Ruaidhri

well you could stop going to all those pr0n sites

ozpass

An old trick, perhaps more suited to removing 'inappropriate banner ads', is to take note of the url's of offending popups and add them to hosts.sam pointing to the IP loopback (127.0.0.1).

It wont stop them popping, but it prevents fullscreen 'Herbal Viagra' and 'Increase your manhood' embarassment whilst at work. ;-)

Pages load that little bit faster, too, when IE isn't polling ad.doubleclick.net before loading stuff you actually want to see.:)

milltown

Can somebody please unbeard what Ozpass just said for me?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i recently got this popup..
http://zion.nuigalway.ie/~mordeth/pop.jpg

it isnt a web thing, and whenever I select "go to process" in the task manager, it goes to crss.exe

what is crss.exe? and ha anyone else had this popup before?

MagicBusDriver

Afaik they're VBscript popups, so they only work in IE.. they the equivalent of those JavaScript alerts you see quite a lot.
CRSS.exe must be some vbscript interpreter or what not.

Ruaidhri

could be someone sending you a message via the mesanger service(ya know net send <comp name/ip> "message")
try disable your messanger service

ozpass

Can somebody please unbeard what Ozpass just said for me?

Sorry,

In retrospect, my post does seem like gibberish.

It's to do with the way Windows 'resolves url's'. Name resolution is the technique whereby your computer translates domain names to IP addresses. e.g www.hotmail.com becomes 64.4.43.7.

The de-facto means for your computer to achieve this is to contact a DNS server (Domain Name Server). This is typically a computer hosted by a third party. There are other means of providing name resolution however, so whenever Windows is provided with a URL address rather than an IP address it will use the following techniques (in order):

1) Lookup hosts.sam
2) Lookup lmhosts.sam
3) Check a WINS server (if available)
4) Check with primary DNS server.
5) Check with secondary DNS server.

hosts.sam is Window's implementation of a 'hosts' file. It's a simple text file (saved with a '.sam' extension) with IP addresses in the left hand column and names on the right. e.g.

64.4.43.7 www.microsoft.com

Most people never bother with the hosts or lmhosts files as they're happy to let DNS do all their resolution- which is pretty much as it should be. It would be somewhat of a chore if we all had to (a) remember IP addresses instead of URL's or (b) had to manually map IP's to domain names in a hosts file for all the websites we like to visit.

The hokum in my previous post stops certain website addresses from displaying by tricking your computer into thinking it's at an IP address that it isn't at, e.g. 127.0.0.1. This is a special IP address called the 'loopback'. If you have a working TCP/IP stack on your computer, it will assign itself this address (in addition to whatever 'real' IP address it's assigned). Hence if you PING 127.0.0.1 you'll get a reply bacause the actual PING never gets further down the OSI than the network layer.

To cut a boring story short.......If you're getting inappropriate banner ads from ads.doubleclick.net then add this line to hosts.sam:

127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.net

You'll just get a little 'file not found' red cross thingy in its place.:)

My system craves coffee....must go forth and source some.....[

milltown

Cheers Oz, it makes more sense now alright.

P.S. Adding coffee to your system doesn't sound like a good idea, best to just get more RAM.;)