best pop up killer?

[NY Hoya]

hey, i just started a forum at proboards.com. It offers free forum hosting but there's a ton of pop up ads. Any suggestions on a good pop up killer? Thanks.

 

[Jeratain]

Zone Alarm Pro has the best popup killer I've ever come across. You can do a search on Google for free popup killers and get a few good hits.

 

[kring]

Thank you Jeratain. I just got ZAP, but haven't installed it yet (too much else going on ATM), but after reading this, I will install it as soon as I have a spare few minutes.

 

[GenghisK]

Mmm Zonealarm is rather a firewall though. You can try popupstopper. Or another one I forgot the name. It's powerful and can isolate even a whole domain name so no more popups from a specified domain would go through. I'll try to remember its name

 

[NY Hoya]

thanks guys, I have Zone Alarm installed, assume ZAP has pop up killer functionality in addition to the firewall?

 

[nixon]

But ain't that stuff illegal? If so, then I wouldn't expect it to be incorporated into Zone Alarm.

 

[GenghisK]

Why on Earth should a popup killer be illegal? I challenge you to be able to find such a law! Since when throwing to trash all the paper based ads you find on your letterbox has become a crime? So it's the same thing here, but it's a virtual ad.

 

[philippe]

I use pop up stopper and that works fine for me

 

[Wolfe Tone]

I just use Opera which has a built in pop-up killer, much easier.

 

[Jeratain]

Originally posted by NY Hoya
thanks guys, I have Zone Alarm installed, assume ZAP has pop up killer functionality in addition to the firewall?

Yes, ZA Pro has additional options that allow you to stop banner ads, skyskraper ads, and some certain javascript popups.

You know how sometimes you close a window and 4 popups appear? Zone Alarm Pro will not allow those other windows to popup. It also blocks third party cookies among other things.

 

[damunzy]

Netscape, like Opera, has a built in popup stopper that works pretty good. A few popups get through but nothing like with I.E..

 

[IceBlaZe]

I use POW.

 

[philippe]

Whats that?Is it usefull ice?
Is it a small download?

 

[IceBlaZe]

Small download, I find it useful...
You can find it at analogx.com

 

[philippe]

Ok thank iceblaze

 

[metalhead]

Opera is indeed the best at killing pop-ups - it's free, and you get the added bonus of a browser far superior to either IE or Netscape. I mean, we're talking FAAAAAAAAAR superior.

 

[IceBlaZe]

IE is better than opera.

 

[Padma]

Originally posted by IceBlaZe
IE is better than opera.

(sorry, I couldn't help myself. )

 

[IceBlaZe]

Originally posted by Padma


(sorry, I couldn't help myself. )

Forgiven.

IE, in contrast to Opera and Mozilla, can pull up any website without a flaw.

Opera and Mozilla can't successfully (enough) open not-thoroughly-coded websites.

Even though I build webpages myself (or atleast used to), I DON'T care if a website is non W3C compliant.
That's not my problem, that's the problem of those who hired the coders.

What I do care is if browsers display the largest number of webpages correctly. IE tops all other browsers in that category.

 

[Sirp]

I use Mozilla, and I have very few problems with it displaying pages correctly. I have to use IE at work, and I have far more problems with that. Not being able to conveniently disable popups in IE is damn annoying, in Mozilla it's real easy.

Also, this auto-image-scaling 'feature' of IE6 is hideously irritating! Try looking at a civIII screen shot and having your image scaled to some unseeable resolution is incredibly annoying. (Well ok, considering its status relative to some Windows XP interface bugs, it's annoyance level can only be considered 'mildly annoying' I suppose).

Oh and then there's security. When bugs start getting found in IE that have the effect "allows attacker to execute code of their choice on target system" then things start getting *really* scary.

-Sirp.