What bugs me more than E-Mail Spam is the pop ups and ads.
Drudge is using something called ads.doubleclick in his HTML that just hangs my computer because it is so slow. Other sites like Intellicast (weather) are using it too.
In the new AOL 8.0 Plus there is a fix to shut them off. If you have another ISP and are still getting them, just shut off your Messenger service. You can still get legitimate IMs and all you won't see are pop up ads any more. Hope this helps.
Go to Drudgereport and then click on View in your IE menu (assuming that you're using IE6) and then select Privacy Report. You will see a list of cookies that Drudge uses. Right click on each one and select "always reject cookies from this site."
That should end Drudge's annoying popup ads for you.
Here you go Mike. FREE
POW!
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With all the cool things about the web (like my website), there's an even greater amount of really lame things, like those popup advertisements from sites like GeoCities and Tripod. After a late night of closing those damn windows, I couldn't take it any more, and AnalogX POW! was born! A simple utility, just run POW! while browsing on the net, and when one of those nasty popups appears, POW! will automatically close it for you... It's that easy! And that's not all... You can configure POW! to close any new popups that you run across, so if it doesn't close them already, you can easily add/remove them at any time. This is an absolute must for anyone who spends any reasonable (or unreasonable) amount of time surfing the web.
Version Changes
1.58 Added pause/unpause feature
1.57 Added support for NeoPlanet browser
1.55 Expanded pattern matching to support wildcards
1.50 Added counter for total number of windows closed
1.41 Added ability to specify custom window type
1.26 Fixed problem with window list under NT5
1.25 Tolerance feature expanded to support Netscape
1.20 Tolerance feature for IE5-varients
1.13 Added 'import' feature to Add/Remove
1.00 Initial Release