Is there ANYONE out there who actually has a positive thought about pop-up ads? I detest them, and I make a special point to avoid advertisers who use them. Thanks to my longtime pal Woody Leonhard, I can now recommend a great pop-up blocker for anyone who uses Internet Explorer. EndPopups.com Popup Manager is free, and it works better than any similar utility I’ve ever seen.
I don’t know what sort of magic the developers of this software use, but they’ve managed to catch just about every conceivable form of pop-up spawned by a Web page. The program itself is unobtrusive, adding a small red bar in the lower left corner of the browser window to indicate that it had blocked a pop-up. If the pop-up window is one you actually want to see (as is the case with some sites that use pop-ups for login prompts), you can click the big E icon to make the window appear.
Highly recommended.
Thanks so much for this tip. Those things were driving me crazy and since we’re on cable, they were popping up while I was doing e-mail and when composing documents in Word, etc. I had downloaded “POW” thinking it would do it. That free program IS good for the other pop-ups but didn’t kill the “Windows Messenger” spam and junk. I’m going to spread the word! Thanks again,
Grandma Joyce