Re: Messenger Pop-ups - AAAAAAAAARRRGH!

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and download Popup Stopper. It will stop the popups in your internet browser too! Works great! You have to turn it off sometimes though because you may want a popup. If you go to a site and click on something and nothing happens, turn popup stopper off for that instance and allow the popup.

Gee, thanks for sharing.

Ed Cregger

You came through big time, Warren. Thanks a million.

Ed Cregger

For that stop the pop is a bit better you just hold down the control key when you click and it will let the window open

Martin Poles

I use panicware's pop-up stopper too. It won't stop the "net send" type popups that Ed was being hammered with, but it is a good tool nonetheless.

Want even more control over your browsing? Try promoxitron (another freebie). It's essentially a web proxy that completely controls/filters everything prior to hitting your browser. I haven't seen a banner ad in months . It hides where you've been and can forge all the outbound http headers. Cookie, cache, script control too. Spam is down to 2 or 3 *PER WEEK* now. It does have a "bypass" feature for those times when you just have to see what you're missing. Try

for version

4.4, although there is a beta 4.5 kicking around if you look hard enough.

And I'll be damned if I'm going to look up something on Google for someone else.

I looked on Google before I asked, Bill. I didn't see anything but a bunch of people wanting to sell me the answer.

What gets me, is that the place where the correction takes place says that it will not affect Messenger, and it obviously does. It's just more deceit from Microsoft as it screws its customer base and caters to business interests. I loathe that company. Features such as the one causing a problem like this should not be included in the Home Edition at all. Save that for the Professional version where people expect to network with other computers. But then Microsoft couldn't provide its weasel clients that have no respect for a person's privacy with a back door with which to harass us.

Relax, Bill. It all evens out in the end. Maybe I will be in a position not to help you one of these days. Consider it done.

Ed Cregger

You're confusing two different "messengers" here Ed, although the confusion is because MS keeps re-using the word messenger.

The service in question provides the ability to send messages between clients and servers and needs not to be running under normal "home" conditions. This has *nothing* to do with MSN Messenger, nor is it "WinPopUp."

FWIW, there are *many* services that are installed and/or enabled in a default windows install that don't need to be running. Disabling them will increase system speed, stability, and security... provided you choose wisely.

There's really only two kind of pop-ups... those that are generated by using windows messenger net send commands (you don't even need a web browser open for these to appear) and those called by code within a web page you're viewing.

You've disabled windows messenger as I recommended, so that really only leaves the later. Panicware's Popupstopper

will stop anything that trys to spawn a new browser window, unless you intentionally hold down CTRL to bypass it. It's free and effective.

You can turn off javascript and activex to eliminate some of the nastier tricks, but you'll get miss out on a lot of (legitimate) stuff that the web has to offer.

You might want to run Ad-aware

on your machine and make sure you haven't unintentionally picked up some ad/spyware crap somewhere along the line.

The best pop-up stopper I've found is at

Cheers, Fred McClellan the dash plumber at mindspring dot com

My father still has his OEM PC-DOS 1.0 disks complete with box and manuals. I should talk him into putting it up on e-bay. Does anyone still have a

5.25" drive?

Most home routers filter them out too.

No, they don't.

SpyBot Search and Destroy does a much better job than Ad Aware. Ad Aware misses a lot of nasties that the other one finds.

Yeah, i've used both... I was just trying to keep my post to 500 words or less, and ad-aware was first outta my mouth. I'm suprised nobody's jumped on us for being off topic. : )

On topic: I found my 1/5 Citabria today. It's still on the building table where I left it 18 months ago. Guess I should clean the workshop and get my ass in gear.

I like MS Messenger, and use it daily to keep in touch with friends and family. Just about every google hit I found is to DEACTIVATE MS Messenger. That is not an option. All I need is a means to keep strangers from finding my address, popping up, and asking me to look at their web cam.

Bob

I second that.

Bob

I think you might be confusing html popups with Messenger popups. The former are not (and should not be) blocked by a router - after all, that kind of popup is there because your web client application *asked* for the popup (ie: it's in the code your browser executed). Fortunately, these are also the popups that are most easily blocked by a proxy application that simply says "all done" for each popup request.

The other type of popup is an unsolicited event with your end being the target. Any decent router can be set up to block such events, with a possible loss of functionality (ie: block SMB ports at the router and you'll never be able to remotely power up your peecee from "outside")...

/daytripper

OMG. I forgot entirely about those... Back in the mid 70's I was messing with a Wang 2200b that had a pair of 8" drives... and an 80 col punch card reader. : )