Popup blocker built into IE (Windows XP SP2)

[Joe Blo]

About a month ago, I upgraded my machine to Windows XP SP2 and
starting
using the built in popup blocker. Over time, the blocker is becoming
less and less effective. I have removed quite a bit of spyware since
then and I wonder if some of the spyware was disabling popup blocking
the registry (even though it is still enabled in the browser), or is
it just that web page developers are catching on and working around
the SP2 popup blocker. Thanks

 

[PA Bear]

Was your anti-virus application running when you installed SP2? Were any
other applications open at the time?

 

[Conor]

About a month ago, I upgraded my machine to Windows XP SP2 and
starting
using the built in popup blocker. Over time, the blocker is becoming
less and less effective. I have removed quite a bit of spyware since
then and I wonder if some of the spyware was disabling popup blocking
the registry (even though it is still enabled in the browser), or is
it just that web page developers are catching on and working around
the SP2 popup blocker. Thanks

Popup blockers do not stop spyware, they stop websites from opening
windows.

 

[Kadaitcha Man]

Popup blockers do not stop spyware, they stop websites from opening
windows.

That is not what he was trying to convey, cooner, you snotfucked moron.
See... "I wonder if some of the spyware was disabling popup blocking"? Hmmm?
You stupid, ****brained twat.

--

 

[Guest]

This is a "blocked-related" question, too --

When I try to read a site, it tells me that my brower does not allow it
(Explorer). It's not a secure site or anything -

Somehow I had stopped allowing ads to pop up and now the red x's just show
up, and what I want to do now is find out how to turn that function on and
off...

 

[firefox rules]

get a better browser like firefox from mozilla.org
tuesday is version 1.0 release . internet explorer
security is half as_ed .

 

[Guest]

i go back and forth from moz and that doesn't matter ;(

 

[Guest]

well - let me amend that: when I open mozilla and then open this search
tool, it says "the browser you want (IE) isn't reading the page/site."

So I'm confused. I know IE is built into my PC as the default, but you CAN
go online thru another brower like Mozilla. So when I tried that why do I
get the error message that IE browser could not read the page, as if it were
still reading thru IE and not MOZ

 

[Guest]

well - let me amend that: when I open mozilla and then open this search
tool, it says "the browser you want (IE) isn't reading the page/site."

So I'm confused. I know IE is built into my PC as the default, but you CAN
go online thru another brower like Mozilla. So when I tried that why do I
get the error message that IE browser could not read the page, as if it were
still reading thru IE and not MOZ

 

[Guest]

well - let me amend that: when I open mozilla and then open this search
tool, it says "the browser you want (IE) isn't reading the page/site."

So I'm confused. I know IE is built into my PC as the default, but you CAN
go online thru another brower like Mozilla. So when I tried that why do I
get the error message that IE browser could not read the page, as if it were
still reading thru IE and not MOZ

 

[Tim Slattery]

well - let me amend that: when I open mozilla and then open this search
tool, it says "the browser you want (IE) isn't reading the page/site."

So I'm confused. I know IE is built into my PC as the default, but you CAN
go online thru another brower like Mozilla. So when I tried that why do I
get the error message that IE browser could not read the page, as if it were
still reading thru IE and not MOZ

I can't be sure without knowing exactly what site you're trying to
access (and may not be able to prove my hypothesis even then) but this
may be something that the web site is doing.

A web page can detect - with a fair degree of accuracy - what browser
is trying to access it. It's possible that the site you're visiting
delivers this message when any non-IE browser tries to access it.

Unfriendly, but possible.