Re: How Can i Stop POP UP Messages, Please Help

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From: Sam (g_reate_xcalibur_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:48:20 -0500

Apparently, _Medo_in_Egypt_, on 02/18/2005 03:37 PM,typed:
> dear All,
>
> i have in my network 25 users, all of them have winxp-SP1.
>
> i have 5 users only they are always calling me and want to stop the POP UP
> messages that appear in front of them.
>
> i installed 3rd Party Software to stop the POP Up Messages, But its Not
> working at all. and the same POP messages still appears .
>
> is there any way to disable it , or prevent it.
>
> Please Help

As far I have experienced, there are two main reasons for popups:

1) your Windows messenger service running on the PCs that get pop-ups.
Disable it and the relevant pop-ups will go away. See
http://www.stopmessengerspam.com/ and click on the OS link on the right
hand side of the page.

2) Pop-ups due to the web browser (Internet Explorer). Here you are at
the mercy of the IE. I would recommend using Firefox instead
(http://getfirefox.com). This blocks up web based popups quite
satisfactorily in addition to give you tabbed browsing, much much less
chances of phising attackes, zooming in/out of font size, etc. It has
the blocker built in. IIRC, IE needs third party tools to make it stop
the popups.

These two methods were quite helpful to me, YMMV. BTW, it would be a
good idea to run Ad-aware and Spybot Search and Destroy scans and an
antivirus scan on those computers.

GL,
Sam. 

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