Popup Ad killer

[Himself]

http://wwwwin.wplus.net/pp/fsc/

Small assembly language systray based program to auto close popup windows. Been noticing a lot of those things lately myself.

[fds]

A simple quick fix is to put these annoying sites into the Restricted sites zone with JavaScript disabled. Also for sites which disable right clicking.

[DosFreak]

Anybody have a list of banner sites so that I can block 'em for my network?

[Himself]

I can't even find the disable JS setting in IE 5.5, it used to be under advanced.

[Liquid Snake]

It's in Security. Go to Custom Level. Disable "Active Scripting" at the bottom.

[Greebe]

Can you say... Webwasher?

Best of all it's free for endusers!

[Himself]

LS,

Thanks for the heads up.

I set "active scripting" to prompt, just about every site I use has javascript.

Greebe,

Installed webwasher to get rid of the extra systray icon, (couldn't remember the name of the thing when I was searching) but I recall having problems with some sites using a proxy before using webwasher, I'll see if it comes up again.

I don't mind the ads, the sites I visit have to make money somehow, just the popup windows. I don't want a popup giving me the chance to win a car or to subscribe to online match making service, is there such a thing as negative advertising? Step one, piss off your potential customer. Doesn't make sense.

[Wulfman]

you can configure webwasher the way it only blocks pop-up windows

mfg
wulfman