What are pop-up ads and how can I stop them?
A pop-up ad is a pop-up window used for advertising. When the program is initiated by some user action, such as a mouse click or a mouseover, a window containing an offer for some product or service appears in the foreground of the visual interface. Like all pop-ups, a pop-up ad is smaller than the background interface – windows that fill the user interface are called replacement interfaces – and usually resembles a small browser window with only the close, minimize, and maximize options at the top. A variation on the pop-up ad, the pop-under, is a window that loads behind the Web page that you’re viewing, only to appear when you leave that Web site. Pop-up ads are not popular with the average Web surfer, and there are several products that disable them, such as our AnalogX’ POW!, or a feature of the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer. One thing to look for in such a program is the ability to differentiate between user-initiated pop-up windows and others, because many other applicati
