Hello,
Though there are pop-ups caused/displayed by malware on users' systems, most pop-ups are implemented by websites and are are not causing any harm. The former pop-ups come up randomly and even with no website visited, the latter pop-ups do only come up when visiting the website that implemented it. As I said, the latter pop-ups do not affect your system and are "just" an annoyance. Thus, I will recommend some (free) pop-up blockers to you:
First thing to mention is, that there are alternatives to Internet Explorer, which should be considered, as - for example - Firefox (
http://www.mozilla.org/) or Opera (
http://www.opera.com).
Both of these are supposed to provide faster, safer and more efficient browsing than other browsers.
What is more: they come with an integrated pop-up blocking function, which means they stop annoying pop-up ads automatically. And, of course, Firefox as well as Opera are freeware.
However, if you want to stay with IE, you can try some other solution. I recommend to have a look at the following page:
http://www.popupcheck.com/pop_up_blocker.asp
There, you will find the results of the Free Pop Up Blockers tests. You'll also notice that Mozilla Firefox covers fifth position.
From my point of view, the Google Toolbar is also recommendable. You can also consider Proxomitron:
http://www.proxomitron.info/
or Webwasher
http://www.cyberguard.com/products/webwasher/webwasher_products/classic/index.html .
I'll leave the choice to you, they are all ok.
Hope it helps
Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot
