Popups and those lovely activex ones too


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Hey all, for the past few days ive been searchin the web in search of some nice program that can eliminates those annoying gain active-x pop ups along with other regular pop ups one encounters when searching for lyrics. My search has gotten me to ad mucher and pop up stopper yet both only do so much and do nothing against those active-x pop ups.

Disabling active x isnt sumtin i want to do so if any of you know a good and reliable pop up/active-x stopper, please lemme knoe :)

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Why bother searching? I use Opera and I can set it to block unwanted popups. It only shows one that result from me clicking, no advertising spam here :)

If you don't like Opera then get one of those IE wrapper browers Avant/MyIE2 etc (or whatever, I dunno cos I use opera)

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if any of you know a good and reliable pop up/active-x stopper, please lemme knoe

doesnt spybot do this?

to stop popups i use Crazy browser :)

be prepared for everyone to tell you to get firefox, lol

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but with firefox, would it actually stop those active-x ones? those tend to give me the most frustration since they enjoy infecting my computer with spyware

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I am well aware that not all lyric sites have them, but my web surfing isn't limited to lyric related websites. Other sites as well have those active-x pop ups so i need a stable program to get them off my comp but your (slysy) program is still pretty cool

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Internet explorer in XP Service pack 2 has been updated to block popups and activex prompts by default. you'll get exactly what you're looking for once that hits final (or if you're adventuresome, install the RC2 of SP2 thats been released recently to get that updated IE right now)

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The "pop-up guys" are changing how they make the pop-ups. I use MyIE2, and the google toolbar with ZoneAlarm, and I'm getting one or two pop-ups a day now. But they're those crazy ones that don't have a window. They just fade in and out. I still reccomend my setup (MyIE2 and Google toolbar with ZoneAlarm), though.

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The "pop-up guys" are changing how they make the pop-ups. I use MyIE2, and the google toolbar with ZoneAlarm, and I'm getting one or two pop-ups a day now. But they're those crazy ones that don't have a window. They just fade in and out. I still reccomend my setup (MyIE2 and Google toolbar with ZoneAlarm), though.

With Firefox alone, I haven't been getting any popups at all. Haven't seen an unsolicited pop for months now. Not to simply plug Firefox... but in fact, any of the pop-up blocking browsers or browser embedders should do the same.

If you're getting weird pop-ups, I'd use one of the spyware cleaners that have been recommended in this thread, and make sure your Messenger service is disabled (not MSN Messenger, but the actual Windows service called 'Messenger').

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Yes, that is what the messenger service does. You need to go to control panel>administrative tools>services and set the messenger service to manual or disabled.

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