Is there anyway to configure the Web shield Or the Network shield to Block Pop-Ups?
What what browser are you using?
There are many ways Pop-Ups appear and there are several ways to block them.
if you use IE then you can use IE with google toolbar
If you are using IE7, go to tools, pop up blocker, pop up blocker settings, and set to high. This stops all flash pop ups but occasionally a site will use html pop ups which cannot be stopped by this method. Since about 99% of all pop ups are flash, the difference is amazing. If you want to watch news video clips, you will have to set the blocker to medium.
-Bob
EDIT. OOPS, I blew this answer. : I was thinking about something else to do with pop ups. What needs to be done to prevent pop ups is to disable the shockwave flash object. In IE7 go to tools, manage add ons, enable or disable, show add ons that have been used by IE, disable shockwave flash object. It has to be enabled to watch flash video.
Well, if it is a Browser, and AVAST cannot be configued then that answer my Question.
BTW, Firefox is the Better Browser than IE, hands down,m when it comes to preventing Spywares and Popups. Was just hoping AVAST has such a feature, Most Firewall do have Popup Blocking capabiities like Norton and ZA.
AdMuncher from Australia will be the MOST effective Popup Blocker…BTW
Avast hasn’t got a Firewall yet… but Avast! 5 will have one! - we have to wait and see if it contains a popup blocker…
Niteghost, I see that we will have to agree to disagree.
I would rather use Norton for an anti virus than Firefox as a browser.
YoKenny, why are you so against Firefox?
I started using a browser when Netscape was the main browser and I was using OS/2 Warp and its browser which was developed with Bill Gates’ assistance I believe that later became IE so IE became comfortable.
I am used to IE and all of its foibles and weaknesses so it is like a comfortable pair of slippers so when my slippers get criticized I go back to the old saying Before you criticize, walk a mile in their shoes.
YoKenny,
I paid for Netscape when it was new. In its heyday I was (in my then professional capacity) personally wined and dined by Marc Andreessen. I was a frequent guest in Redmond too when IE was being developed to counter Netscape … btw not with Bill Gates’ assistance but at Bill Gates’ insistence; Bill was determined to crush Netscape … why do you think the EU fined good old Bill even more billions than the US did? BTW I still suspect Bill believes it was money well spent.
I believe in competition, while I believe the vast majority of us would support your right to be an IE enthusiast … perhaps you might consider, with a bit less combativeness, the rights of your fellow posters to be happy to use a competitor product that helps to keep Microsoft in that competitive position where you get to enjoy the benefits too.
Well, I’m not criticizing IE, just I trust FF + NoScript better and with extensions, I have much more flexibility with FF.
I’ve used Netscape for a very short period, can’t say much about it.