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by dgutierrez

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How do I get rid of the Internet Explorer ad onslaught? I can be in the middle of doing something and am interrupted by IE popup ads. I don't use IE as my browser but it loads automatically on startup. I have looked in my startup folder and I don't see it there, but the ads keep coming. How can I stop them from loading?

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by joncr

Some Gnutella clients do this. Morpheus for example. You can get popup supressors from download.com that will solve the problem if you wish to keep the application. There are at least 10 freeware programs listed if you search for "popup".

by ngunity

I recommend Pop-up stopper from www.panicware.com

it's ruthlessly supresses all pop-ups, use it when you're surfing sites you know are gonna throw up a lot of pop-ups. It will occasionally block legit stuff though, like when you right-click and open some components in a new window, but the task-tray icon will flash to show it has blocked a site, and you may circumnavigate this.

handy software

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