Fwd: pop ups

[Robin Boulton]

With apologies for cross-posting, I'm seeking any recommendations or 
helpful ideas on this topic.

I'm using a program called AnalogXPOW! on my machine right now. It works OK 
but you have to manually tell it each time a new popup appears to add it to 
the kill list. That particular ad won't reappear but similar ones with 
near-identical names will still pop until added to the list. I would like 
to find something that can identify a popup (or a pop-under) simply by its 
behavior and automatically kill it. I am wary of such programs however 
because I have read that some of them are spyware or have other undesirable 
behaviors themselves. (If anyone knows whether there's truth to that, I'd 
like to know that too). Any solid recommendations, based on real world 
experience with no undesirable side effects, would be greatly appreciated. 
We are completely Win2K, running IE 5.5/6.0 on all machines.




>From: Adult Ref <scref1 at linc.lib.il.us>
>Subject: pop ups
>
>Hi Robin - random pop-up ads on the Reference computers are driving us
>CRAZY!  It's very embarrassing to  be searching w/ a patron and have a Hot
>Chicks in Bikinis ad pop up.
>
>Anything we can do to prevent this?  I know there's pop-up ad killing
>software, but what's the best way?

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