Pop-Ups

[Jedo_03]

Anybody got any idea how to STOP these freakin "adserve" and "ern" popups. . ?
I have Norton AV and Windows Defender installed and running but I am still getting these freaking annoying pop-up ads. . .
Jedo

[scooter]

Jedo, use either Mozilla Firefox as your browser (excellent IMO, tabbed browsing is great, and it blocks popups); or install the Google toolbar for Internet Explorer (the toolbar has popup blocking)


Cheers..................Sean

[Bob Willson]

Also, get rid of Nortons and replace it with AVG (Do a search for the free version)
But the main thing is to get rid of !@#$%^& IE and replace it with Firefox or Opera

[ozwinner]

I run Microsoft IE with Norton Interner Security and have never had a pop up or a virus, maybe Im doing it wrong? :confused:

I am also behind a small router.

Al

[DanP]

Hear hear Al.

The updated IE has pop up blocker.

Dan

[goat]

i use these and i never have troubles

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html



http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

[Bob Willson]

I run Microsoft IE with Norton Interner Security and have never had a pop up or a virus, maybe Im doing it wrong? :confused:

I am also behind a small router.

Al

Just because you haven't yet doesn't mean that you won't. Thje real problem with IE is that all the nasties around are made specifically to attack IE.
IE has so many security holes in that MicroSoft has to issue daily security updates for it.
Nortons is not a very good virus catcher. A friend of mine was using Nortons (kept right up to date) and I found about 700 viruses (virii?) on her computer. How do you know you haven't had a virus or a worm Al? If you had got one then you'd never it.
the router helps to keep you invisible especially if it also has an inbuilt firewall. Go to www.grc.com and try his programs. If they can see you then you are at risk; if not, then very well done.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

I run Nortons AV as my canary. As many modern virii disable it in the course of infecting the system, it's perfect for the job.

I run another AV as well, but with minimal intrusiveness. When NAV's icon disappears from the toolbar or just won't open I know 'tis time for me to ramp up the intensity on the other and do an intensive seek'n'destroy.

Apart from that, IMHO NAV is useless.

[Auld Bassoon]

Stop visiting sites

[old_picker]

In my books, and I am a pc technician, NAV is pretty much a virus itself. Even worse is the ubiquitous norton internet security which we eradicate from every pc we service unless the client is really determined not to let it go. Another popular piece of crap is the mcaffee intenet security suite

[ozwinner]

So I dont get it?
I have never had a problem, so thats the problem? :confused:

Al :confused:

[normell]

So I dont get it?
I have never had a problem, so thats the problem? :confused:

Al :confused:

Be patient, Al
It may not happen overnight, but it will happen

[Bob Willson]

So I dont get it?
I have never had a problem, so thats the problem? :confused:

Al :confused:

Possibly.

Why haven't you had a problem. If all you are running is Nortons, then I don't see why you wouldn't have had many problems that you are unaware of.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

So I dont get it?
I have never had a problem, so thats the problem? :confused:

I think that one of the major problems is that when you finally do have a problem, no matter how insignificant it may seem it'll be a major headache to fix 'cos of all the other "little" problems that have crept in unobserved.

Like... my li'l bros could never work out why he couldn't get more than 56k from his ADSL connection. Small problem? Insignificant? Seemingly, until you realise that 'twas because he was reaching his providers download limit within a couple of hours of the account being refreshed every month. Why? 'Cos amongst the various virii, trojans and whatever that NAV let through were a couple of "hidden" P2P servers that ran 24/7 in the background. :eek:

Or, in simple english: certain "pirates" were using his computer as remote storage and maxing out his account before he had a chance to.