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Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

Use Mozilla or Firefox.

www.mozilla.org

Y'know. Just because it bears repeating.

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Originally Posted by Bitman

Yeah, get Google toolbar. It's just a great toolbar all around, but the popup stopper is good enough where I haven't installed anything else at home.

But my all time favorite popup stopper is Pop-Up Stopper Free Edition. It kills ALL popups. I mean, if you click the IE button on your desktop twice, it'll bounce the second one. Leave one IE open, and no program will be able to open another.

I finally got around to trying the Pop-up Stopper Free Edition. Down loaded the free, bare bones, no extras version.
So far it tastes great AND less filling. :thumpsup:

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Originally Posted by lookout123

.......it is time to band together and give me, a computer moron some advice.

[disappointed] And here all this time....... I thought you were cool! [/disappointed]

um, thanks i think. or should i apologize for the disappointment? :confused:

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Just call me Slang W Bush

You're no Bush. You're a phoney. You're a..a...a MERKIN! :p

When I first got my computer, paranoid bastard that I am, I downloaded about 10 free anti-virus, spyware killers, and pop-up blockers. Then, all of a sudden, I get a lovely little white box popup that said, in essence,
"WINDOWS 98 SYSTEM FAILURE. PLEASE REINSTALL OPERATING SYSTEM."
I believe the phrase I said at that time was "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! FUCK!!!"
After a failed suicide attempt, I called a friend of mine, got the A\ prompt for eliminating partitions on the hard drive
(DO NOT TRY THIS WITHOUT ADULT SUPERVISION!!!),
crossed my fingers and prayed.
After the fresh install, I was a little more careful.

Right now, I'm running the following:

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
Zone Alarm Basic
IMSecure Basic
Spybot Search and Destroy
Panicware Popup Blocker Free Edition

These seem to work quite well in keeping me spyware free.
Also I run RegSeeker and IE Privacy Keeper.
Cleans up everything real nice.