Hate annoying popup ads?

Strong Bad
Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
edited February 2024 in Clubhouse Archives
I just bought some software called "AdSubtract" and it works very well at stopping those pain in the **** popup windows & ads when surfing the web.

$20.00 at Best Buy. Very well worth it!!! :D


John
No excuses!
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,761
    edited December 2002
    Great, thanks for the info!
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  • jrausch
    jrausch Posts: 510
    edited December 2002
    I use Smart Explorer which has a lot of very cool features built in one of wiich is a nice pop-up blocker, even the hack sites can't knock this one down. You can group all you favorite web sites into a single group button and it will pull up all of them at once. www.smarteque.com
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited December 2002
    I downloaded Ad-Aware from www.lavasoft.com, it was free. I run it once or twice a week to keep the pop-up's to a minimum.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,761
    edited December 2002
    Frank,

    I agree, Ad-Aware works.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • STUFFMD
    STUFFMD Posts: 381
    edited December 2002
    Yes but can you turn it off when you need to????.....I have some sites that use pop-up based programs to function, that I need for work????
    Thanks , StuffMD
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,761
    edited December 2002
    From what I can tell the Ad-Aware doesn't stop them until you run the program and then delete whatever it detects.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited December 2002
    AdSubtract has a custom site filter. You add the website to the filter and tell it whether to filter out only popups, ads, both or neither.

    This program works very well!

    John
    No excuses!
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  • STUFFMD
    STUFFMD Posts: 381
    edited December 2002
    Sounds reasonable...Thanks Guys.
    Peace StuffMD
    Your system is only as good as your weakest component...!

    OnkyoTX-DS 797
    NAD C270/ Mains
    Mains: LSI9's
    Center: Cs400i /Biwired
    Rear: Fx300i
    Rear Center:CS 245i
    Dvd: Onkyo DVS 555
    Vision RCA 36" Premiere Series
    Bang & Olfsen RX Turntable
    Psw 350 Front/Psw 202 rear
    Kimber Cable 4TC Mains HF
    Monster Originals/Center
    Kimber Interconnects
    Monster XP Everywhere else
    PS2/Gamecube
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