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In internet explorer, Windows 98, when I go to close a banner that pops up, multiple banners keep popping up and more pop up everytime I close one.
How do I stop this?
I tried deleteing temp files, cleaning registry ect.

Thank you

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by b_pope

One way is to go into Internet options, select the security tab & choose custom level, scroll down to Scripting & set it to prompt. However this will basically make web pages inpossible to view since all these annoying pop-ups are the result of scripts on the web page your trying to view.

As suggested pop-up stoppers are the way to go, I use ZoneAlarm Pro, in the newer versions it has a new option called Privacy, which so far has worked great for stopping most pop-ups of the nature your refering to, while leaving the harmless ones alone

Another stand alone program is AdSubtract, I've used it & it works great.
http://www.adsubtract.com/

by psx

When you get a barrage of pop-ups like that, press Alt+F4 to shutdown the active window. You have to do this quickly because you want to shutdown all popups as well as the last one before it starts the code to launch new popup window. After that, never visit that site again because some of the popup windows will actually infect your PC with viruses.

Also, try one of the ad stoppers mentioned above.

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