PopUp Killer is no longer...

mtpros · March 5th, 2002, 01:52 PM

I was at a friends house last night surfing the web and one of those popup windows showed up and I realized he did not have popup killer installed. I told him about it and then went to the website to download and install it for him and I was saddened to find this announcement: "PopUp Killer is no longer..."

Kuasimodem · March 5th, 2002, 02:02 PM

If you want a powerful alternative, try POW! from AnalogX. You will only see each popup ad once, tell POW! to kill it, and you will never see it again

skuz · March 6th, 2002, 12:54 PM

Thanks for telling me this, I will keep the installer safely in my backups.

Popup killer is (was) the best I've used. No discrimination : a popup is killed. You could still open a new window yourself if you hold CTRL.

POW opens new popups, and there are TONS of new popups.

**RobRich** · March 6th, 2002, 04:14 PM

Check out this HTTP filter proxy for best results:

http://proxomitron.org/

Filter popups, cookies, JS, active content, etc. Works great for me, especially when combined with Cookie Cop 2 in a cascading proxy config.

Robert Richmond

surreal · March 6th, 2002, 04:35 PM

and what's a cascading proxy config.

**RobRich** · March 6th, 2002, 04:48 PM

Translation: Routing a proxy through another proxy.

Here is how my base config works:

1. IE6 passes its HTTP requests to Proxomitron at localhost:8080 (local network, port 8080)
2. Proxmotron passes its requests to Cookie Cop at localhost:8100.
3. Cookie Cop passes the request to Windows Networking, as which time my firewall (ZA right now with Win2K) filters the traffic.
4. Imcoming information flows in a reverese pattern back to IE.

You can chain multiple proxy servers together. For my LAN, I use the above config, but add the effects of a caching proxy (Proxy+)and NAT server (WinRoute Pro). I then use ZA for application level network control for each client.

Always remember to use a firewall to block internet access to your proxy ports. Wouldn't want other people using your bandwidth, or worse, hacking your system.

--Robert

skuz · March 7th, 2002, 05:58 PM

Woops, made a mistake. I was thinking of Panicware's Popup Stopper...

vass0922 · March 11th, 2002, 06:05 AM

Rob, going through all those hops doesn't it slow the whole thing down a little?
Too many hops for me

Or are all those on the same box?
I'm guessing you don't play many online games? Sounds like it'd be a nightmare to configure for it

Daft_Ghosty · March 11th, 2002, 06:12 AM

Skuz I have a fully payed for copy of Pop-up Stopper Pro.. and I have never had tons of popups.. this things zaps them.. before they are evena gleam in their mother windows eye.. =) I have to tell which ones not to zap.. for popups used to show an image, by opening a new one..

other then that the full payed for version works great

dunbar · March 18th, 2002, 01:14 PM

Never used it, was reccommended to me, but I found a different way....
Opera 6, allows refusing popups via Quick Preferences.
That, and I pulled out the plugin for flash which usually is a waste of bandwidth.