[dilbert80]

Use the Firefox browser, it has a built-in pop-up blocker

[petro45acp]

Use Netscape and turn on pop-up blocking. Works like a champ for me.

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[BibChr]

www.avantbrowser.com

Avant Browser rocks -- and blocks popups.

Dan

[FoxInSocks]

Use Mozilla Firefox.

[jimt]

http://www.proxomitron.info/

[BrooklynGOP]

Use FireFox.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Get the browser Mozilla Firefox, it has a built-in popup blocker that does better than 3rd party blockers.

[2banana]

Do a google search for:

Ad-aware (free)
Spybot (free)
Go to Microsoft.com and download their free anti-spyware (beta) - the link is on their homepage

[Severa]

Before I discovered Firefox browser, I used the Google Toolbar. Blocks popups very well and I had Google search right at my fingertips as an added bonus.

[pepperhead]

try Firefox

[Elsiejay]

postini is working well for me.
http://login.postini.com

[RIGHT IN LAS VEGAS]

Use this

I adjusted my sound to a bullet ricochet!

[Al Simmons]

Two words: Firefox and Ad-Aware.

Go to: http://www.lavasoft.de/

and download the free Ad-Aware Spyware/Popup blocker. It is absolutely 100%. The newest updates have reduced (combined with Firefox Browser) pop-ups and spyware/malware worms on my PC to ZERO.

Read that again. Two months ago my computer was going mad and pop-ups were running my Internet. Now, they have been liquidated.

[PilloryHillary]

Mozilla Firefox is the answer to your problem.

[freedom44]

Thanks everyone i'm going to try firefox as well as install the microsoft spyware killer.

[spudsmaki]

Also look at The Proxomitron proxy server, works well out of the box. It's orphaned, but Google for it.

And load up your HOSTS file with all the bad sites. Google for HOSTS Windows or some such. There are lots of URLs with HOSTS prepopulated. Makes drudge tolerable.

Spybot S&D and Adaware work as well as Norton. Take a look at AVG, and it's free to boot.

[F105-D ThunderChief]

Try GuardIE, for Internet Explorer! It's free!

www.guardwall.com

[martin_fierro]

FREE PC PROTECTION: (Not an exhaustive list. Your results may vary. Void where prohibited. For entertainment purposes only. No wagering, please. Whattayawantfernuthin'.) (Thanks, but "Buy a Mac" doesn't qualify as "FREE PC protection")

Free Alternative browsers: Mozilla Mozilla FireFox Opera Free AntiSpam Tools: MailWasher Free Antiviral protection: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition Free Firewalls: ZoneAlarm Sygate Personal Firewall (thanx KoRn) Test your firewall from without with: ShieldsUP! DSL Reports Port Scan Test your firewall from within with LeakTest Free General Anti-Malware tools: Prevx Intrusion Detection (thanx TomGuy) WinPatrol (thanx TomGuy) Free Popup ad killers: Bayden Systems Popup Popper: Blocks popup ads well in MSIE Shoot the Messenger: Close that friggin' Messenger in Windows XP Free Spyware removers: Spybot S&D AdAware Free System Diagnostics: Everest Home Edition (thanx TomGuy) Free Windows Update: Windows Update LAST BUT NOT LEAST: Explore Linux as an alternative OS, without installing it on your hard drive, via a free bootable CD-ROM! Download Knoppix (or one of these other Linux distributions), burn the ISO file onto a CD-ROM, and reboot with the CD-ROM in its drive. If you later want to install Knoppix on your hard drive, here are some tips.

[shellshocked]

Windows XP, Service Pack 2 comes with pop-up blockers.

If you have Windows XP, it is a freebie.

[Robe]

been running Mozilla Firefox at home and at work since September
It works like champ...no pop-ups/adware/spyware since install