Has any one expeirienced a barage of pop ups that forces you to turn your computer off? I mean they have pop ups that invade your internet explorer preferences. Nasty sheet. You have to shut off the computer and reconfigure the browser.

Can we make these sob's go away?

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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)

I use the google tool bar which helps some, and I also run "ad aware" on a daily basis. These seem to help.

Anyone who writes the code for pop-ups must have trouble sleeping at night.

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'90 300SE 298k
-300K and it gets put into retirement.
'80 300D 255k Purchased new by family in 1980.

Had a:
1973 220 (gas)
1980 300SD
1992 400E

I downloaded Mozilla 1.5 and it STOPs all popups. It will run faster that IE...I have IE also but surfing the web (for MB cars) I use Mozilla ...


http://www.mozilla.org/

You can use both on your computer, when you install just say NO to the use Mozilla as default browser....

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2000 Ford 7.3 Powerstroke 4x4
2006 Mazda Tribute
1983 Black 300 D (donated to charity)
1993 Teal 300 D (160K) Sold
"I love the smell of burnt diesel fuel in the morning, it smells like ....VICTORY"

Semper Fidelis
USMC 1973-1976

pop ups are a diabolical menace.

no one has to live with them though.... that's why there is

www.panicware.com

just download and install the free version under ''downloads''

end of pop ups

also the opera browser has a good popup stopper feature.

have a nice day!

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1984 300D Turbo - 231k....totalled 11/30/07 RIP

I'm using the resident web browser that came with OS-X and it blocks pop-ups. Some sites have pop-upd for yu when the site needs info. Just turn the blocking function off. I use Google's blocker at work on my PC (Windows XP) and it works for the overwhelming majority of pop-ups.

What I really want is some sort of aggressive spamicide.

I use a popup killer but it seems to get a little excited at times, say for instance if I open a picture in a new window it'll close that and the window used to open it. But yes I've had popups go wild before where it'd open a few new ones every second but pop up killer would only close two of those per second. It normally resulted me in ctrl+alt+del my way out by closing all of the IEs open. Thanks for the link to mozilla I've been wanting to give that a try.

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Jeff M.
Mercedes W123 DIY pages are now located here.
1983 / 1984 300D Sold
2000 CLK430 Cabriolet ~58k Sold
2005 Avalanche 4x4 ~66k

the mozilla seems to work well. I put on the panicware program too for good measure.

I was amazed how intrusive some of those pop ups are they go right into your browser bookmark themselves and reset your home page for you. I cant imagine what they hope to gain besides pissing people off.

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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)

Well I don't agree with all of that, they can't set the homepage unless it asks you something and you click ok. You may say ok to any question and it is setting your homepage. I always click the X or no. The same thing goes for bookmarks.

SpyBot is MUCH better than Ad Aware, give it a try sometime.

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Jeff M.
Mercedes W123 DIY pages are now located here.
1983 / 1984 300D Sold
2000 CLK430 Cabriolet ~58k Sold
2005 Avalanche 4x4 ~66k

I was surfing Autotrader the other night and I clicked on a ad for a car and here comes all the porn on my computer, it even took over my browser, so I had to ctrl-Alt -Delete and reset my home page back to Yahoo. Thats when I downloaded Mozilla..but you are right I did have to click on something, but NOT any porn..

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2000 Ford 7.3 Powerstroke 4x4
2006 Mazda Tribute
1983 Black 300 D (donated to charity)
1993 Teal 300 D (160K) Sold
"I love the smell of burnt diesel fuel in the morning, it smells like ....VICTORY"

Semper Fidelis
USMC 1973-1976

i think i'm gonna try mozilla...

i'm liking opera but it still doesn't do all what i want it to, on the other hand IE6 sux big time and i'm totally fed up with the redirects like u are ga-w123 -

have got netscape7 but think it needs a better popup stopper.

there's got to be something better out there than IE
am i wrong but so many websites are geared to IE??

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1984 300D Turbo - 231k....totalled 11/30/07 RIP

Mozilla or Firebird. Firebird is based on Mozilla, has a few extra goodies and the menus at the top are organized in a way more familiar to IE users.

Mozilla is faster than IE. It's more standards compliant than IE. TIME magazine voted it the best web browser.

www.mozilla.org
www.mozillazine.org

If you want some addons for Mozilla/Firebird, check out www.mozdev.org - Mycroft and Optimoz are particularly handy.

That should change as more and more people escape from ie; the web authors will almost certainly adjust. With any luck, it'll help keep pages in line with open standards.

Actually I never heard of mozilla before until I was checking the web statistics on my site, one of the categories is what people viewed it with and there it was, Mozilla.

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Jeff M.
Mercedes W123 DIY pages are now located here.
1983 / 1984 300D Sold
2000 CLK430 Cabriolet ~58k Sold
2005 Avalanche 4x4 ~66k

Last night I downloaded Mozilla Firebird and Thunderbird, I thought I would give it a try. seems to work Ok, but not intergrated, two sperate programs, so you can't click on a mail icon on browser..you have to open Thunderbird mail seperate. Also you have to remove any old Mozilla programs first. And there is a windows installer for these programs..

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2000 Ford 7.3 Powerstroke 4x4
2006 Mazda Tribute
1983 Black 300 D (donated to charity)
1993 Teal 300 D (160K) Sold
"I love the smell of burnt diesel fuel in the morning, it smells like ....VICTORY"

Semper Fidelis
USMC 1973-1976

Mozilla is a complete browser/email/web page creation suite. Firebird is a standalone browser and thunderbird is a standalone email client.