how to kill annoying pop-up ads

Some Emails cause annoying additional advertising windows to open & change focus to that window. Is there some IE setting that I can use to suppress these, so I can just DELETE the Email without first closign the annoying pop-up ad.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Using Oulook Express & IE5.5

 

Here are a couple free programs that are out there . I tried one that seem to work. I think it was call Popup Killer. Do a search on google and I think you can find it. I had computer problem and started eliminating extra programs. I don't think that was causing the problem but I haven't gotten around to install it. You have to receive a popup add first and then it puts it on a Black list and then you don't receive it after that

 

I use , http://proxomitron.org/
Freeware .

 

Arie.thanks for the information...works like a charm.

 

And yet another...

There is another way as well.

In the Windows directory look for Hosts.sam
Edit this in Notepad.
AS your popups hit, just write down the URL, If you can find them, and stick them in the format as described in hosts.sam

Popup Killer is great, but am having slight problems with it at the present, in Windows XP, can't really control what is and is NOT permitted to pop up.

They are working on that feature...

 

Almost right TonyT...

I dearly do believe that I mentioned above, that in the header of the HOSTS.SAMS file, to set up the file the way that it said to set it up...

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

However, you are absolutely right, you can get predefined Hosts.Sams files from the net, there are a number of them that are quite good.
They still need to be edited, depending on what the person wants to see, and doesn't want to see. But nevertheless, there are some good ones out there.

 

Arie.....correction......It had no effect so I'll be trying one of the freeware packages.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

 

Arie.....coiuld you please be more descriptive about set everything to 'disable'.

My Options>Security>Zones just gives me
Internet zone or
restricted

but I still get popups

 

Excerpt.. from blackbox.sk

Newbies Corner
1. What is the /etc/hosts or the c:\windows\hosts File? - most OSs (OS=Operating System) I know have a hosts file. UNIX usually stores it at /etc/hosts, Windows stores it at c:\windows\hosts and Windows NT stores it at c:\WinNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (thanks to Teolicy for the WinNT tip). The hosts file is used instead of wasting time to do a DNS Lookup(2). I mean, why waste time on DNS Lookup when you already know the IP but you just don't feel like typing it down and you'd rather remember the hostname. The hosts file should look like this:
# This is a comment line.
# Anything beginning with # will be disregarded by your computer.
# You don't have to put comment lines if you don't want to, but they make reading easier.
IP-address hostname

For example: on most hosts files you will see this line:
127.0.0.1 localhost
Anything directed to 127.0.0.1 is directed to self, meaning to your own computer.
This hosts file entry allows you to type localhost instead of 127.0.0.1 in browser windows or any other network application.
Note: some OSs do DNS Lookup first, and then, if DNS Lookup fails they go for the hosts file, but you can always reconfigure that somewhere (take MacOS for example: all you have to do is to put the line set use_hosts_first=1 somewhere in the config.sys file).
2. what is DNS Lookup / Reverse DNS Lookup? - the command nslookup hostname (Unix only. For a Windows version see http://www.samspade.org) gives you the IP address of that hostname. How does it work?
Every computer which is connected to the Internet is assigned with an IP address, whether it accepts connections or not. If you want to connect to that certain computer, you have to know it's IP address, whether you like it or not. But what if you're senile and you don't feel like remembering IP addresses? This is what hostnames are for. Hostnames are simple names for IP addresses in the human language. For example: if you wanna surf over to Yahoo and you don't remember their IP address or you don't feel like finding it out, you can go to www.yahoo.com instead. www.yahoo.com is an alias to Yahoo's IP. Now, this is what DNS is for. DNS stands for a Domain Name Server. These servers store those aliases and their IPs. A DNS Lookup means to find the IP of a given hostname. A reverse DNS Lookup is to do the exact opposite (IP==>hostname). For more info, type man nslookup on Unix for nslookup's manual page or go to Sam Spade's library (see http://www.samspade.org). Nslookup is a wonderful probing tool, and in fact it's one of the best ways to find out information about a certain host, so go and learn it.
3. Popup - another browser window that "pops up" by itself. Try going to any Geocities homepage and you'll see a good example of a popup window, because Geocities insert these things in every homepage hosted by them (except GeoPlus members, but they pay for that... ).
4. Bandwidth - the total speed a certain connection can achieve. Chewing up bandwidth means wasting some of the bandwidth, hence making surfing slower.


But from what it sounds like, you have a java script problem, look up on www.Metacrawler.com disbling Java script I.E. or versions of that, that will walk you right through the process.

 

URL to explain....

http://members.tripod.com/~demodesign/popup.htm

Try the above, and it will tell you how to turn on and off your Java script.
This combined with the Hosts.sam file, and you will only see a pop up the first time it is active IF it is not java script, in the case of a java script popup you just won't see it.

The hosts.sam file, I looked for on the net, most of the morning, I just have not hit the key words for it yet.

Hoping this finally helps you. Take care and enjoy.

 

restricted zone-why doesn't it work?

I am using windows 98SE I.E 6 with all the latest patches etc.
I have several sites listed in my restricted zone such as
ad.doubleclick.net In fact I also have *.doubleclick.* just to cover
all the possibilties. No ads ever pop up on my home page. In fact
no ads ever pop up when I'm off searching websites. However
when I have my homepage open,and click on a link from my homepage(excite),another browser window opens with an ad. It can be seen in the taskbar. When I click on it to see what it is,it ends up being an ad. It doesn't interrupt what I'm doing...but I hate ads! Can anyone tell me why my restricted zone isn't working consistantly? I really don't want to muck around with another program to resolve this. Keeping up to date and running AdAware is enough.

Alicia

 

ABSOLUTELY RIGHT....but....

If it were only a single unobtrusive pop up that we were talking about, or a pop up about something that we were remotely vaguely interested in getting, great on with the popups..

But when as in a number of places, where in trying to see what the page says or get something form a page, you are deluged with horrendous popups, coming up so fast you can't stop them, or on the other hand where malicious Web masters indulge in massive popups, and within the code is contained ( "make this your homepage ") in which non proper closing of the garbage makes the page (a home of popups ) your future home page...

Popups are notorious, webmasters in using pics, can track to a small portion you web surfing while it is active and in the back ground.

A banner ad on the other hand you can't kill, a web master can over write it, and take a chance of losing his web space, especially if it his ISP's banner. But that is another matter.

Far too many have no idea how to kill popups, which is the why of this thread.
And how many newbies, have absolutely NO Idea how to reset their homepage back to what it was BEFORE some idiot changed it without his permission.

Another type of popup that I hate and with a passion, are those that make an appearance, and refuse to show a window.
also you CAN'T kill these types of windows.
The three finger salute (CTRL-ALT-DEL) just DOES NOT work on these.. What are they sending back to their origination....?

They have no visible window, you can't enlarge them to see, whatever it is that they are doing...?

 

In addition....

Arie,
In addition I am also not too worried about it..
Honest web sites, do not deluge people with total outright popups...

the ones who turn to this alternative for income, I have generally noticed, aare trying to offer something on their web site, that is borderline to say the least.

Granted, ISP's offering Popups on all of their web pages, generally do not Deluge a person with popups to where the web site is totally unusable.

But the ones I am referring ot that offer these borderline pages, with totally inundated pops, offer crackz, warez, serialz, moviez, mp3z, adult sites, etc. etc.

They offer these pops to help defray the cost of bandwidth and ISP costs..

Considering that the warez and crack sites are shut down normally 1-3 months after they are started... then you can go figure from that....

Actual homepages, generally do not have horrendous pops, businesses do not have them as well, bad business...