posted on March 15, 2002 01:16:04 PM
I found this in a newsletter today and have tried it. You know how every time you visit auction watch that casino ad pops up? I stopped it today by using this trick.
I know many of you already know this, but as a computer nerd I found it pretty exciting...and easy.
Instructions from newsletter:
Stopping Wild Popups in Internet Explorer
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Have you been surfing the Net, and suddenly pop-pop-pop,
annoying windows appear, resizing your browser to full screen,
or worse?
It happens to me now and then, too. Want to put an end to this
annoyance? Pull your chair a little closer and pay attention!
Something called "Active Scripting" is at work here. You can
disable it by following these steps:
On the menu line of Internet Explorer, click Tools, Internet
Options, Security tab, Custom Level button. Scroll down to the
Scripting section, and click the radio button (the round bulls
eye type buttons are called radio buttons) labeled "Disable".
This disables Active Scripting, and the popup craziness won't
happen to you.
If you need to, you can always enable Active Scripting, or
select the option to "Prompt". If you select that, you'll see
a question asking your permission to open additional windows
when sneaky web sites try to fiddle with your browser.
posted on March 15, 2002 04:03:57 PM
I know you might laugh, but I've never seen one of these pop-up ads from AW. I've been using a utility called pop-up killer for a while now and it's almost flawless. I believe it's free and you can download a copy from:
