I whooped Pop-Ups (1 Viewer)

[Larry Seno Jr.]

It took me two tries, but I have FINALLY rid myself of pop up ads WITHOUT having to use pop up stopper (Which never really worked that well at all)
FIRST I went here:
http://www.lavasoft.com
and downloaded Ad-Aware which can remove most spyware from your registry, memory, and hard drive.
THEN I went here:
http://www.smartin-designs.com/
And downloaded a hosts file which would confuse all the spyware on my system into contacting FAKE IP addresses, instead of their mothership hosts to provide them with new pop-up data.
THEN I went here:
http://cexx.org/dummies.htm
(A site which HAS been posted here before)
and downloaded a dummy DLL to fake out Kazaa. It works even with the NEWEST Kazaa 1.61
So far I have been pop up free!

 

[Masood Ali]

I just use Ad-Aware and Pop-Up Killer.

I tried Ad-Subtract Pro, but that did a bad job distinguishing between the good pop-ups and the bad ones.

 

[DonRoeber]

You could also just use Mozilla. The latest builds (both RC1 and RC2) have the ability to disable unrequested javascript popup windows. In otherwords, no more pop-ups!

Not to mention the fact that the browser is rock solid and fast. Certainly not the Netscape we all used to know and love.

 

[Larry Seno Jr.]

Don-

Try using Mozilla with any sites that are Java Heavy, IE Yahoo Games, it doesn't work. And if its anywhere NEAR as slow as Netscape 6, count me out FAST.

 

[Philip Hamm]

The thread title made me think of Wesley Willis' classic song "I Whooped Batman's Ass".

 

[Carl Johnson]

Not too long ago I switched to Kaaza Lite which killed off my biggest source of popups and adaware does a good job of getting rid of the rest.

 

[Patrick Sun]

Thread title amended. Let's keep the cuss words out of the thread titles. Thanks.

 

[Larry Seno Jr.]

I didnt know ass was a cuss word, sorry.