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I was wondering what I have to do to elimanate all of those pesty pop-ups. They make it almost impossible to browse the internet.
 
I was wondering what I have to do to elimanate all of those pesty pop-ups.
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They make it almost impossible to browse the >internet.

ZoneAlarm firewall should have popup blocking in it, also Opera browser and
netscape has that capability... Google bar also has such possibility, BUT
google keeps "track" of your doing/searches and marks your pc with very
persistent cookie for almost 35 years, so I would not trust them too much ;)

Not all popups are from NET, many are caused by spyware in system, so...

Here's 5 steps that EVERY computer owner should do (or have, for last two
steps) if they want to make sure their system is not infested with spyware,
trojans and viruses... And even these steps are not 100% perfect.

1. first download download spybot seek & destroy from
http://security.kolla.de
install it, UPDATE it, and RUN it...

2. second, AdAware from www.lavasoft.de install it, UPDATE it, RUN
it...
--- sofar you should have quite spyware free system ---


3. third, download spywareblaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html install it, UPDATE it
and RUN it...

--- after this you should have system that's protected from some spyware
stuff, not ALL though ---


4. get yourself virus killer if you do not have... www.grisoft.com has free
virus killer it you bother dig up more their site to download free version,
install, UPDATE and run it...

--- after this your system should be protected from most viruses ---


5. get yourself FIREWALL if you do not have it... Usually free firewall like
ZoneAlarm (www.zonelabs.com) will do...

--- and after this step, you should beable to see when something in your
system tries to connect outside from your system etc ---


1st and 2nd steps are both good programs, but I never trust only one of them
myself because I am bit too paranoid with my network security. So I run
both.. both are good, but nothing is perfect so better be sure...

spywareblaster "protects" your system from spyware etc. so it's also good
idea to run it also...

Virus killer and firewall are usually VERY important part, If you have winXP
you might have it's inbuilt firewall on, that helps some, but it does not
show outbound connections that are sometimes very good to "notice"

and remember to UPDATE/RUN those programs regularly just to stay safe
side on things...
 
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