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Cnet has a bunch. Don't pay for one! There's a bunch that are freeware. Or if you switch to Navigator as your browser like I have, you can disable popups directly in preferences.
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Also, doesn't this have to do with the cookies in your temp internet files? Your popups will disappear for a while if you delete all the cookies. I think it's in the WinNT folder (that scary one that you're not supposed to touch) and then temp internet files. Tom or someone who knows, is there a path that you can give for PCs that gets you into the right folder?
This would only be a temporary fix. You'd have to change your internet options to prompt you whenever a website wanted you to accept cookies and you could see if it's an add or a legit cookie for the website you're viewing. This is also a pain in the butt.
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If you're really getting 60 popups in less than a minute, I'd say you need a bit more than a pop up stopper. Download adaware and run it, then also get a popup stopper for those pesky ones that everyone actually gets.
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One very important thing to notice though is if any of these popups say in the toolbar at the top "Messenger Service". If it does, let us know and someone (me or someone else I am sure) can pass along the info on how to stop this evil service. Most popup blockers won't stop those kind, so if that is the culprit you need to take action.
Here is a good popup stopper I have used.
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@#$%^! trackpad on this laptop that interprets accidental contact with the palm of my typing hand as a mouseclick and can't be turned off at the control panel and just caused me to lose a post I had literally been working on for two hours.
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Yes it is, but at least I could control-Z that back. When it accidentally backpages and the text is gone when you go back, though, you're really SOL.
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You know, if everyone just started using Mozilla, you could just set a popup blocker setting in your browser... And you could EVEN conditionally set which sites you want popups from.
But instead, people just want to install more cruft onto their system.
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another tirade: we need rain and the hurricane is going to miss us by about three counties. Arg.
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but I was consoled when I was watching the weather channel, and saw a reporter blow away... ....It was... ...so funny... ...I'm ok...*gasping for air*...
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