Popup Blockers Freeware

[Josh]

Hey everyone:

I wanted to let the freeware group know that they can get a free popup
stopping program at www.popupstopper4free.com.

I found others, but they wanted $20 and I checked the news groups and
didn't see anything.

If anyone knows of a good adware program, please let me know.

Thanks

 

[c_e]

Hey everyone:

If anyone knows of a good adware program, please let me know.

Thanks

yeah - Lavasoft Adaware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
and Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/
between 'em they should get rid of those pesky underhand varmints who are
hi-jacking the Freeware "scene" (for want of a better word do early

coma

 

[Rhexis]

Hey everyone:

I wanted to let the freeware group know that they can get a free popup
stopping program at www.popupstopper4free.com.

I'm not an IE-user, but even if I were I wouldn't use this program.

The website just screams "highly suspicious" to me. The massive spamming of
keywords they are doing at the bottom of the page just reinforces that feeling.
They have about 18KB (!) of keywords down there.

I'd stay waaaaay clear of this and use something trust-worthy like Proxomitron
or Privoxy instead.

Also, it's adware.

From their FAQ:
"Adware? - There is no adware or spyware with our software. It is completely
free of additional spyware or adware."

I like that the word 'additional' somehow found its way in there. They've just
said that their program contained no ads, but apparently they make a distinction
between adware and adware. Just read this from the very same FAQ:

"Advertising buttons - Since we do not charge for this software, we need to run
a few small ad buttons on the task bar to help cover our costs. If you paid for
this program you would end up paying around $20.00. If you want a ad free
popup stopper, just send contact us and we will send you one. The cost will
only be $10.00. You can contact us using the link at the bottom of this page."

and this:

"Webmasters - If you operate a website that generates a large amount of traffic
and you would like to cobrand with us whereby we create a customized popup
stopper task bar with your logo on it. You then offer this tool to your visitors
to install."

That's just nasty.

 

[Paul]

The website just screams "highly suspicious" to me

Yep, and check out their message at the bottom of the page:

"We are not responsible for any problems you may incur with your
computer. If you experience any problems, please uninstall our
program from your Control Panel."

That REALLY makes you want to install it, eh?

 

[Paul]

I'd stay waaaaay clear of this

Yep. In addition to my other post, their page claims to have
been featured at Cnet... yet this link returns 0 matches:

http://news.search.com/search?q=popupstopper4free

Hmm.

 

[Rhexis]

I wanted to let the freeware group know that they can get a free popup
stopping program at www.popupstopper4free.com.

I found others, but they wanted $20 and I checked the news groups and
didn't see anything.

Haha. I just googled for this site and lo and behold; it seems we've got
ourselves a dumb spammer peddling his own crappy program. Nice touch on
the "I checked the newsgroups and didn't see anything" part, "Josh".

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...=off&c2coff=1&q=Popupstopper4free&sa=N&tab=wg

Stay /completely/ clear of this program!

 

[Rhexis]

"We are not responsible for any problems you may incur with your
computer. If you experience any problems, please uninstall our
program from your Control Panel."

That REALLY makes you want to install it, eh?

I didn't catch that. This just gets better and better. I googled for one
of the names of the people singing the program's praises.

Google can only find that name on the /spammer's site/. What's even
more interesting is that he appears to try to googlebomb. Just see
this search result:

http://www.google.com/search?q="David+Fogelsom"&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&filter=0

Googlebombers are ruining Google.