Pop up blocker

[Bahamut2000X]

Well my pop up blockers testing period ended today and now I have to pay to use it. So I was wondering if anyone knew of a pop up blocker that is free.

[Citizen Bleys]

*beats Unne to the punch*

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/

[Yamaneko]

*Mandatory Firebird link* (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/):D

EDIT: Dang it Bleys!

[Bahamut2000X]

Actually I already tried mozilla. Personally I think it's ok but it does nothing for me while I play games and pop up's still occur then and bugs me like crap then.

[Big Ogre Umaro]

kay well <a href="http://www.panicware.com">Panicware</a> has a free blocker.

[Shlup]

What BOU said. That's the one I've used for quite some time.

[Dr Unne]

<i>Personally I think it's ok but it does nothing for me while I play games and pop up's still occur then and bugs me like crap then.</i> --Bahamut2000X

...? I don't understand. Firebird blocks 100% of popups on my computer, without fail. And pop-unders, and whatever other direction an ad might try to pop.

[Citizen Bleys]

Mozilla blocks all popups for me, as well, AND it allows legitimate windows, such as the EoFF Private Messaging popup, to appear.

Ad-Aware is just a pain in the hole. It won't allow legit pop-ups that are sometimes necessary to navigate in a site, such as the ones that were used in FFR's battle system.

[Bahamut2000X]

I dunno why but Mozilla just wasn't blocking any pop up's while I played my game. Although I didn't have the mozilla window open, maybe that's why, although I would perfer to not have it open while I play seeing as how I need as little lag when playing (cause I play a game that can get laggy real fast even if you meet all the recomended hardware stats)

I'm going with the one that BOU said though. I used the demo version of it (although I just looked at the site more and I realised they had free ones that didn't require to be bought either, man I feel stupid now.:rolleyes2 )

[Big Ogre Umaro]

OKAY WHAT GAME IS IT THAT POPS UP WINDOWS WHILST PLAYING!!!111

[Yamaneko]

I believe he's talking about the monstrosity that is Windows Messenger. You can disable it with msconfig, under "Services".

[Citizen Bleys]

Oh, that friggin' thing. Hateful, it is.

[crono_logical]

Um, that's Messenger you find in Services, not Windows Messenger, which are two completely different things. Messenger is used more on networks to send alerts between PCs, eg if a virus is found on one, some virus scanners use it to send an alert to the admins on the network to tell them to do something about it :p There shouldn't be any real reason to remove this service, nor will it help, especially if you're not on a local network.

Windows Messenger as in the lame IM program isn't in services, you need to go through config/options for that program instead to disable it or at least it's popups.

[Bahamut2000X]

OKAY WHAT GAME IS IT THAT POPS UP WINDOWS WHILST PLAYING

It's not the game. It's just cause I'm online, so I randomly get them, and the game I play lags like crazy already, so less lag=good.

[Dr Unne]

<i>There shouldn't be any real reason to remove this service, nor will it help, especially if you're not on a local network.</i> --crono_logical

If you use a cable modem or such, you can get Messenger spam. My mother's computer would get those until I turned off the Messenger service. It's a fairly recent method of spamming I think. Way worse than browser popups, since it makes a pop-up error-type window and grabs focus immediately and it doesn't care what you're doing, it'll interrupt you anyways.

[crono_logical]

Oh yeah, forgot about that. I'd expect decent ISPs to at least block those ports for you anyway - I firewall off all my Windows sharing ports etc. anyway from the internet connection (not the LAN connection) so wouldn't get those anyway even if someone tried to send them to my IP. Yeah, turn it off if you have to then, though I'd still prefer the firewall method.

[Citizen Bleys]

Firewalls slow down the whole bloody internet to sub-56k speeds for me, though. Not gonna do it.

Plus, it makes me use a passive connection on DC++, and I <3 my active connection and its porn anime-leeching powaa.

[crono_logical]

Your firewall sucks, both in terms of CPU utilisation and configuration, I still get decent speeds on the internet (6 MB/s+ when at uni to places across the Atlantic), and I see no ntcable CPU hit by hit at all :p And I run most filesharing stuff in active mode, including DC++ :p

If you're in Windows, I'd recommend Tiny Personal Firewall 2 (not any newer versions, they're rather bad) - ZoneAlarm is for beginners only really and isn't really customisable enough.

[Endless]

I like my BlackIce <3
And it doesn't slow my connection down, I still managed to get 60+ kb/s on a single source for a mandrake 9.1 iso :D

I don't use ad-aware to block pop-ups, but to clean the spyware. I use my hosts file to block pop-ups, and it works fine.

Edit : Mandrake 9.1, not 8.1.

[crono_logical]

BlackIce was supposed to have hidden nasties in it, last I heard about that one. I might have to go look it up again though.

[Yamaneko]

It is called Windows Messenger. That's what it's labeled as under "Services". The IM program is MSN Messenger. I'd always get porn spam on Windows Messenger when I was playing a game online. I disabled it and I haven't had trouble with it since.

EDIT: Actually, you're right. Never mind me and my forgetfulness. :p

I use Sygate Personal Firewall. Doesn't slow me down. I usually get 200k/s speed dl with it on.

[Dr Unne]

I like my iptables.