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Juligirl - 30 Mar 2004 00:44 GMT

Why would a pop-up blocker block all pop-ups, then let
some pop-ups through? It work real good for like 3 months
Juligirl :-)

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Jerry - 30 Mar 2004 06:10 GMT

Because the pop-up people figured out how to bypass some pop-up blockers.

It's the age old battle between offense and defense.

> Why would a pop-up blocker block all pop-ups, then let
> some pop-ups through? It work real good for like 3 months
> Juligirl :-)

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Juligirl - 31 Mar 2004 13:09 GMT

Wow. Would it help to use 2 diferent blockers? or can you
even have 3 at one time? Juligirl :-)

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Rick T - 31 Mar 2004 16:52 GMT

> Wow. Would it help to use 2 diferent blockers? or can you
> even have 3 at one time? Juligirl :-)

At some point in time you have to differentiate between valid pop-ups
and pop-ups caused by malware which has infected your PC.

The former are run by either the website itself, or the site-hosting
firm; these are advertisements and if they don't "pop up", the website
doesn't get revenue from the advertiser. If you don't like the fact
that a website has ads on it, find a website that doesn't and/or email
the site administrator with your suggestions of other methods of keeping
the site open.

The latter are in the "adware" category and can usually be eliminated by
using ...

spybot/adware detection & removal tools:
http://www.safer-networking.org/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Rick

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Noel Paton - 31 Mar 2004 20:40 GMT

(One problem at a time, Juli!<g> - Post back when you have a stable system,
and someone will advise.)

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> Wow. Would it help to use 2 diferent blockers? or can you
> even have 3 at one time? Juligirl :-)
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