Dr Pepper
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Registered: 21st Sep 02
Location: oxford Drives Renault Clio RS200
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Getting fook loads of spam and adverts at the moment-- anybody know any good free pop up stoppers
Also-- something keeps changing my homepage to some porn search page--cant seem to change it back again- anyone got any good ideas to sort this
cheers
[Edited on 11-09-2004 by Dr Pepper]
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goldfish
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
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I use a free firewall, adaware, and removed kazza. don;t get any pop ups. if you don;t mid searching the net or using soulseek to find porn then do what I suggested
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Dr Pepper
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Registered: 21st Sep 02
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cheers- i will have a look for that
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Joff
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Registered: 17th Oct 00
Location: Cambridgeshire
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Don't use Internet Explorer.
Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org) blocks all popups by default.
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M2RTY
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Registered: 25th May 01
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quote:
Originally posted by Joff
Don't use Internet Explorer.
Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org) blocks all popups by default.
i use firefox and get hords of pop ups
even after removing pretty much everything, running spyware/adware removals etc
infact, just read the window bar on the top of the pop up and its using IE to load up!! bastards!!
still need IE for ebay tho as firefox wont let me use the easy way to creat for sale adverts and also when u press back it goes 2 the top of the page unlike IE which remembers how far down you were scrolled
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Joff
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Registered: 17th Oct 00
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Ebay's fine for me with Firefox - I use my own templates tho.
Agreed not remembering to jump back to a position on a page is annoying but sometimes mine does it... 
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Dr Pepper
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Registered: 21st Sep 02
Location: oxford Drives Renault Clio RS200
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firefox is good so far----homepage works/no pop ups as yet......looks good joff cheers
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James_DT
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Cambridgeshire
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If you install XP Service Pack 2, IE blocks popups too. Also, use Google toolbar for popup blocking. Or, alternatively, Firefox like Mr Joff said.
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Joff
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Registered: 17th Oct 00
Location: Cambridgeshire
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Oh yeah - XP SP2 includes loads of useful shit like disabling automatic image linking in Outlook Express emails (so spam sites can't tell if you've opened their emails) and it also resets your Windows Media Player preferences... 
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nickyboy01
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
Location: Oxford-ish
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quote:
Originally posted by Joff
Don't use Internet Explorer.
Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org) blocks all popups by default.
What he said, i changed to Mozilla and havent looked back.
One question tho, is there a way to change the default explorer when going to Hotmail from the MSN list. I.E. click on new messages and it goes into Hotmail using IE still
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