IE Pop-up blocker blocks when turned off

[suerak]

A user is having a rather strange problem with the SP2 pop-up blocker.
When it is disabled, it is still blocking pop-ups to sites where the
main navigation window has to be a pop up. Even when blocking is
enabled and the appropriate sites are added to the allow list, as well
as the trusted sites list, it still blocks all pop ups unless the pages
are loaded while holding down CTRL.

Has anyone else seen this weirdness with the blocking when blocking
should be disabled?
Thanks!!
Sue K.

 

[siljaline]

A user is having a rather strange problem with the SP2 pop-up blocker.
When it is disabled, it is still blocking pop-ups to sites where the
main navigation window has to be a pop up. Even when blocking is
enabled and the appropriate sites are added to the allow list, as well
as the trusted sites list, it still blocks all pop ups unless the pages
are loaded while holding down CTRL.

Has anyone else seen this weirdness with the blocking when blocking
should be disabled?

This MS KB Article should help;
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=843015

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Silj

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Reply to group, as return address
is invalid that we may all benefit.

 

[PA Bear]

This MS KB Article should help;

<snip>

Pop-up windows appear with Pop-up Blocker turned on in Windows XP Service
Pack 2:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=843015

OP stated pop-ups were /not/ appearing with Pop-up Blocker turned /off/.

 

[PA Bear]

Google Toolbar
Yahoo Companion (toolbar)
Earthlink Total Access

Do you have any of the above installed? Any other toolbars?

 

[suerak]

Thank you, but as PA Bear mentioned above, the pop ups are being
blocked with the blocker turned off.

As for the email address, my Gmail address showed up in Google Groups.
It's apropos, I guess

Update: I went as far as disabling the blocker in the local GPO to no
avail. Is there a registry edit that someone knows about? I've seen a
small handful of posts from people who have the same issue, but there
doesn't seem to be a solution!

Thanks!

 

[SuZQ]

The user had the MSN toolbar installed, but I had already uninstalled
that. No other toolbars were installed. The "pop-up blocked" message
shows up in the status bar of IE, so I'm assuming it's the one that is
installed with XP SP2...

Thank you for your help!

 

[SuZQ]

BTW, sorry about the unquoted responses..I thought clicking on "Reply"
under each comment would automatically quote that comment... My comment
at 4:01 is directed to siljaline, and the one at 4:06 is for PA Bear.

 

[PA Bear]

Your thread in archive: http://tinyurl.com/nvx8c

[I have no idea how you Quote previous message when posting via Google
Groups, but doing so does help immensely.]

Then I assume some other application (e.g., anti-virus, security suite like
NIS or McAfee, anti-spyware app) is interfering, SuZQ.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

The user had the MSN toolbar installed, but I had already uninstalled
that. No other toolbars were installed. The "pop-up blocked" message
shows up in the status bar of IE, so I'm assuming it's the one that is
installed with XP SP2...