Hi, i used to have pop swatter installed in my system, with fun web tool bar search included, today i install Giant antiSpyware(indicated from a friend) and i scanned my system, so the Giant informed me that fun web search was a high risk malware or ad-ware, so i removed from my system, whitou knowing that the pop swatter was removed too. so far so good.
i wanted the popswatter back, so when i was trying download it, avast detected Win32:Trojan-gen. {Other}. so i’m asking. Is there some software to kill pop up whitout “infest” my machine with “bugs”?
You could start by letting us know your OS and Browser as pop-up stoppers are browser dependant.
I believe some firewalls also have pop-up stoppers, as does the latest SP2 version of IE 6, as does Firefox and many other browsers. using a browser that has pop-up blocking incorporated is (I think) prefereable to another program add on.
You can check out the info in these forums as there has ben much discussion about XP SP2, so a search for SP2 should return lots of hits.
Most people have little problem with the upgrade and you are making your system less vulnerable to exploits if you don’t upgrade. Check out the available information on SP2 and make an informed decision.
I believe it won’t be long before windows update insist on the SP2 upgrade, if for no other reason than to protect others.
Even if you use firefox you have to keep IE up to date as it is an integral part of winXP and you can’t update windows using the firefox browser (no activeX)
AdAware S.E. and Spybot both have freely downloadable versions, work well with avast! and there are many posts here about them and their use, if you use the search facility to find out more.
Firefox is now available as ver. 1.0 and can be used to download Microsoft updates (albeit manually) by visiting Microsoft download centre. Firefox has it’s own pop-up blocker.
That toolbar does anonymously report your surfing activity when on a myway or myway affilaited site, helping their product serve you targeted advertsing based on surfing habits of its users.