Spyware Popups

[Trev]

I continually get popups saying that windows has detected
spyware on the PC and to fix it I must click OK to
download free software to stop the problem.. however it
isn't from Microsoft Windows but another scam company.
Where can I download free software that will block all
these pop ups about spyware? Or what brand of software is
the best to purchase?

 

[LuckyStrike]

Trev -

Many of these Scam Pop-ups are not defeated by your average Pop-up blocker.
The most effective way to prevent them with IE6 is to (unfortunately)
disable Active Scripting. If Active Scripting is enabled, the Google toolbar
which has a "decent" pop-up blocker is foiled as well.

Insofar as Pop-up blockers are concerned, I have heard that AdShield is one
of the better ones and is still freeware if one uses an older version. The
latest version is no longer freeware.

The list below is from "Acadia" and was posted on the Wilders Security
Forums
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=5843

Some popup blockers.
All of these are 100% pure freeware, no trial periods. Some of these
do more than just handle popups.

Pow!: http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/pow.htm
NoAds: http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopupEraser: http://www.webknacks.com/popuperaser.htm
Stop-the-Pop: http://www.bysoft.se/sureshot/stopthepop/index.html
Internet Organizer: http://www.sf.yucom.be/wdprojects/
PopKi: http://ranfo.com/popki.html
PopUpPopper: http://www.bayden.com/Popper/default.asp
PopUpKiller: http://sourceforge.net/projects/puk/
AdCruncher Proxy: http://home.sprintmail.com/~dtrout/AdCruncher/ReadMe.html
KillAd: http://www.wplus.net/pp/fsc/
ClickOff: http://www.johanneshuebner.com/en/download.html
PopupBuster: http://www.popupbuster.com/PopUpBuster/
Free Surfer: http://www.kolumbus.fi/eero.muhonen/FS/
Window Shades: http://www.g-m-m.com/Software/WindowShades/index.php
AdShield (my personal favorite): http://www.adshield.org/
PopupStopper: http://www.panicware.com/popupstopper.html
Proxomitron (has learning curve): http://www.proxomitron.org/
For those who don't want third party stuff, your own pc's built-in host
file:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm and
http://www.smartin-designs.com/ and http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/


Here is a review of 61 popup killers, not all of them are free:
http://www.popup-killer-review.com/index.htm

This below is courtesy of Jim Byrd MS-MVP who did the legwork on this
(Thanks Jim)
http://www.fsd1.org/technology/Files/AdShield.exe - AdShield1.2 (free)
http://www.internettechs.net/utilities/AdShield.exe - AdShield1.2 (free)
http://ftp.ural.ru/home/index/windows/networking/utils/AdShield -
AdShield1.2 (free)
http://www.megalog.ru/info/utilz/AdShield.zip - AdShield1.2 (free)
http://www.allstarss.com/store/adshield.html - AdShield3
http://www.ad-shield.com/ AdShield3 Info/Purchase/Block List
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/block.txt - (Mike Burgess' .txt Block List
for AdShield - Recommended)
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/block.zip - Mike Burgess' Zipped Block List
for AdShield - Recommended)

http://www.songwave.com/software/adshield_blocklist.txt (40,000 pornsites
blocked - *VERY* large list - use at your own risk)
http://www.chrismyden.com/temp/block.abl (chrismyden's blocklist in .abl
format - Recommended)
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/resource.htm#AdShield (Eric Howes AGNIS
for AdShield block list - Recommended) (BTW, Eric's site contains a wealth
of very valuable information about all aspects of net security - Very Highly
Recommended)

Pop-up Tests
http://www.kephyr.com/popupkillertest/index.html
http://www.popup-killer-review.com/test.htm
http://www.popuptest.com/
http://www.webknacks.com/aptest.htm
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