Plagued by popups?
(Note: Windows XP Service Pack 2 added a built-in pop-up blocker to Internet Explorer 6, and it is an integral feature of IE7, Firefox and other modern browsers. For details, see the Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox help pages.) I use two pop-up stoppers, one simple, the other a bit complicated. The simple one is “Pop-Up Stopper Companion” from PanicWare. It’s the free version of “Pop-Up Stopper Professional”. It puts an icon in the Windows system tray and blocks most attempts to open a pop-up in any web browser you may be using. You can configure it to flash the icon or play a sound every time it does this. Since you will sometimes want to open a pop-up that it blocks, this is a useful feature. You can then right-click the icon and tell it to let you open the pop-up. Very simple to use, and you get to intuitively know when it has blocked a window that you really wanted. Get it from: http://www.panicware.com/product_downloads.html A more sophisticated and powerful solution is “The Proxom
