Is there a freeware pop-up killer and/or evidence elimination program?

[S. Tonekham]

Hey there.

I'm just wondering that, is there a freeware program that kills pop-ups and
eliminates evidence on your computer, so you can protect your privacy? I
have two computers on my house, one is running Windows XP Pro, the other is
Windows 98. They both are connected to the internet by cable and shared by
using a router. Do you have any idea what are those freeware programs are
(whenever possible)?

If you have any idea, please do not hesistate to reply. Thank you.

Simon

 

[Rahman]

Outpost Firewall does it for sure!

 

[Aaron]

Outpost Firewall does it for sure!

Outpost "eliminates evidence"?? , that's news to me.
Still, It's unclear what the original poster means by "eliminates
evidence", usually it either means

1) Clearing MRUs, history,cookies,autocomplete etc. More difficult to
remove is the Index.dat of history,TIF,cookies created by IE etc

or

2) Secure erasing of files.

I vaguelly remember some of the popup killers (free surf??) have some of
these functions (mostly category 1), but I personally prefer to use
seperate freeware for this.

For 1) I recommend a combination of MRUblaster, Spybot S&D . Spider (not
for Win xP) clears the index.dat, but Win XP users should use System
security suite

For 2) I recommend Eraser http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/




Aaron

 

[YK]

I also want a program that kills pop-ups automatically and as i
defined on my list of pop-ups that i want to block for example, I
want to block that "you could win free" popups and those anoying
popups that I have porno on my computer. I hated them!!!! Any
suggestions?

As well as all the other great sugesstions:
http://toolbar.google.com/index-beta.php

SpywareBlaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Update the reference file through the online update function.

Install a good HOSTS file to help stop these nasties from installing.
http://asp.flaaten.dk/proxo/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1311
http://asp.flaaten.dk/proxo/hosts.zip

Cookie Cop 2 (ratz it's not freeware)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,2019,00.asp

 

[John Fitzsimons]

Any suggestions?

http://clients.net2000.com.au/~johnf/faq#(15) ?

 

[Weezel]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:51:32 GMT, "S. Tonekham"

http://clients.net2000.com.au/~johnf/faq#(15) ?

Mozilla Has ONe Built Right In!

http://wwww.mozilla.com or .org

 

[Aaron]

Not working?

Mozilla Has ONe Built Right In!

http://wwww.mozilla.com or .org

Aaron

 

[Jim Scott]

Aaron wrote on Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:41:59 GMT

Not working?


Aaron

So has Mozilla Firebird, which is only a browser with no email
and stuff. Looks pretty, works great and very stable even tho'
it is a beta.

 

[Mike]

Can I install Mozilla for a test run on a Windows XP machine without
screwing up IE 6.0? In case Mozilla doesn't work out, I'd like to return to
IE by just uninstalling Mozilla.

 

[Max Quordlepleen]

Can I install Mozilla for a test run on a Windows XP machine
without screwing up IE 6.0? In case Mozilla doesn't work out, I'd
like to return to IE by just uninstalling Mozilla.

Absolutely. However, you might want to try something a little smaller,
like Mozilla Firebird, or K-Meleon. They are both smaller than Mozilla.
Moz is 11-13MB, Firebird is around 6, and KM, my default browser, is
about 5MB. All three are Gecko-based, and all offer similar pop-up
control. I've actually found KM's to be better than Moz's by a gnat's
whisker.

 

[Me]

I would recommend Mozilla myself, espically if you are a computer novice
since it's slightly more mainstream.

K-melon and pheonix is nice, but it's harder to get into .

I tend to think the opposite- firebird is easier than mozilla, and
definately easier than kmelon. Check out this page:

http://texturizer.net/firebird/index.html

 

[Max Quordlepleen]

I tend to think the opposite- firebird is easier than mozilla, and
definately easier than kmelon. Check out this page:

What's difficult about K-meleon? I've been using since version 0.4,
before Phoenix/firebird was even around, and from the very start is has
been very simple to set up and use. I would be genuinely interested to
read a list of the things you consider make KM difficult

 

[Mike]

... you might want to try something a little smaller,
like Mozilla Firebird,

Great. Just "installed" Firebird. No fuss, interesting look with lots of fun
options. I think I'll spend some time with it. BTW, Firebird is doing a
great job stopping Pop-Ups. None in my first 2 hours of use.

 

[S. Tonekham]

I also want a program that can elminate activity from the interet completely
off my computer. I don't like those trial version of the programs.....~_~

Any suggestions?

 

[George Richards]

I also want a program that can elminate activity from the interet completely
off my computer. I don't like those trial version of the programs.....~_~

Any suggestions?

Give RegSeeker a try.
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

HTH

 

[John Fitzsimons]

I also want a program that can elminate activity from the interet completely
off my computer. I don't like those trial version of the programs.....~_~

Any suggestions?

Zone Alarm firewall can do that :

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp

Very quick/easy to stop access from the internet.


Regards, John.

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[S. Tonekham]

what is TIF? any idea?

Simon

Outpost "eliminates evidence"?? , that's news to me.
Still, It's unclear what the original poster means by "eliminates
evidence", usually it either means

1) Clearing MRUs, history,cookies,autocomplete etc. More difficult to
remove is the Index.dat of history,TIF,cookies created by IE etc

or

2) Secure erasing of files.

I vaguelly remember some of the popup killers (free surf??) have some of
these functions (mostly category 1), but I personally prefer to use
seperate freeware for this.

For 1) I recommend a combination of MRUblaster, Spybot S&D . Spider (not
for Win xP) clears the index.dat, but Win XP users should use System
security suite

For 2) I recommend Eraser http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/




Aaron

 

[Aaron]

what is TIF? any idea?

Temporary internet files, when you clear your IE cache that's what is
removed.

Simon

Aaron