Cool Pop-Up tool

SRXThunder · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:15 pm Post subject: Cool Pop-Up tool

OK, so for the last month or so I've been having this severe issue with pop-ups. Being the IT guy that I am I've been searching through my regristry and Sys32 to find the culprits. I've found one or two, but it doesn't seem to help. It had gotten so bad that it was taking 4 - 5 minutes to start my PC (since all these *Holy Censor, Batman* things initiate on start up). I was getting ready to wipe my hdd and do a fresh install of XP, but a guy at work hooked me up with this freeware program from lavasoft. I ran it tonight, and get this, I had 473 pop-up programs embedded in my registry. No wonder it was taking so long! Anyway, like I said the stuff is free. If you go to lavasofts web site you can download it straight from there. It's only a 1.7mb executable, so it's not too bad of a download on a 56k dial-up connection. I just have to wonder how much of this stuff I picked up from Kazza?
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SRXThunder · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:21 pm Post subject:

LOL...allow me to add a disclaimer now. I just tried to fire up Kazza, and it wont open. Apparently this pop-up remover deleted Kazza's advertising program that is required for you to run it. I guess I answered my own question.
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vwall · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:00 pm Post subject:

Crap thats a lot of pop ups.

What was the Lavasoft program? Adaware??
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SRXThunder · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:08 pm Post subject:

Yep. It's the first time I've heard of it.
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vwall · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:35 pm Post subject:

man, I've been using thta for over a year now..

Its pretty good for a free tool
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JayJay · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:37 pm Post subject:

Yep, I've used it for ages, no problems in 2 years. The new version 6 is very good indeed and if you want you can upgrade it to include spam killer too... Also check out PestPatrol. My little brother uses it and says it's even better than the AdAware but I've never tried it myself...
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SRXThunder · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 12:33 pm Post subject:

Cool. Thanks JJ.
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jamesron41 · Moderator Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 119

I have been using adaware and it does the job.

GuitarJeff1112 · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 6:16 pm Post subject:

I'm a vetran of the whole Ad-Aware thing. I usually don't have stuff on my computer, because I'm not my sister, so I'm not a magnet for adware and junk.

As for the Kazaa thing, if you have the now defunct Kazaa-Lite, it doesn't contain any adds or anything, so it isn't affected by programs such as this one.
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SRXThunder · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 6:53 pm Post subject:

Nope, I have the full blown Kazaa 2.6...and it really doesn't like pop-up blockers and fire walls.
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Drainman · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 7:18 pm Post subject:

Yes, Adaware 6.0 ROCKS. I have it on all of the computers at my house. I got it off of major geeks. They have all kinds of handy stuff like that.

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HotFire108 · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 2:59 pm Post subject:

If you go into My computer:Control panel:administrative tools:services, some of the stuff in there are popups, the program "Messenger" is the popups that turn on without you being on the internet. And! if you use netscape 7.1, it has a built in popup blocker(regular internet popups) that works well.
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