Pop-Ups

[Joe]

I was considering purchasing Lavasoft's Adaware SE Plus
until a friend told me about MS's anti-spyware program.
Does the latter block pop-ups, as does the Adaware SE Plus?

When MS finally release the full program, is it likely to
be free, do you think?

Many thanks,
Joe

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Microsoft AntiSPyware does not block pop ups, I think Adaware SE Personal
Edition does, but here are two for sure that do block pop ups:
http://toolbar.msn.com/
http://toolbar.google.com/

 

[Joe]

Hi Andre,

I already have the Google toolbar but find that some pop-
ups are beginning to get past it.

Thanks.
Joe

 

[plun]

I already have the Google toolbar but find that some pop-
ups are beginning to get past it.

Hi

Popup protection is broken for both IE/SP2 and for Firefox.
Mozilla community is writing new code for Firefox.
MS writes for IE7.

What I know about Adawares protection that is good.

You can also try Avasts browser with a lot of protection
..
http://www.avantbrowser.com/

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Hi Joe,

Well, its worth testing out Adaware then, which version of Windows are are
you running 2000 or XP?

 

[Bill Sanderson]

If you are getting popups which get past the standard blockers, this may be
due to resident spyware on your system--this can get you popups regardless
of what browser you are running--although perhaps not if IE is set to work
offline--not sure of that detail.

At any rate--checking that you are clean with either Ad-aware or Microsoft
Antispyware can relieve you of that question. Microsoft Antispyware, or
Ad-aware's paid version, also include real-time protection which can prevent
further infection or installation of code you are not aware of.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Plun the purpose of having Microsoft AntiSpyware in the first place is to
protect Internet Explorer, recommending an alternative browser is bit too
drastic I think.

 

[plun]

Plun the purpose of having Microsoft AntiSpyware in the first place is to
protect Internet Explorer, recommending an alternative browser is bit too
drastic I think.

Nope, I don´t think so, this user wanted better popup protection
and I think Avant will give him that.

Perhaps when IE7 arrives he switch again. I have total open mind
about trying things outside the MS world.....

 

[Ron Kinner]

Get HijackThis.exe from
http://tomcoyote.org/hjt/hjt199//HijackThis.exe

Save it to C:\hjt (new folder) then Open it and select
Scan and Save Log. Note where you saved the log then
send it to me as an attachment. Let's identify and treat
the cause not the symptom.

Ron Kinner
Microsoft MVP 2004 & 2005
(e-mail address removed)