No, goddammit, I don't want to play online casino games...

[terrya]

I have anti pop-up software installed on my pc here and at home.

But even with that, I keep getting pop-ups. And these fucking online casino ones are the worst.

Is there an ultra pop-up killer kind of software that can get rid of these things?

Thanks
T

[Warren Stupidity]

1. upgrade to XP service pack 2. Popups gone. n/t

[RebelOne]

11. Sorry, I have XP service pack 2 and I still get popups

despite AOL's popup blocker.

[Warren Stupidity]

12. AOL?

Well that would explain a lot. You probably have IM installed and you have probably managed to get weatherbug installed as well, along with the rest of the hideous nonsense AOL installs with IM. (Its called a drive-by install: you agree to install program A, you also get B, C, D, E etc without your knowledge.)

Uninstall weatherbug. (Better yet get rid of AOL, but I'm guessing that is not an option for you.) Get a good spyware disinfector, Forget about AOL's. Ad-aware seems to work pretty well. http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Firefox is ok too - it does cut down on popups, but it has some of its own issues. My system with XPSP2 and its firewall and no-AOL anything has no popups at all with either exploder or tirefox.

[eyesroll]

2. Run Firefox

I can't run it here (our OS is too old), but I'm running it at home and it completely kills pop ups.

[meegbear]

3. Stop going to those naughty sites and you'll stop getting them

[soothsayer]

6. run firefox and you can be as naughty as you'd like to be...!

[htuttle]

4. Use Firefox instead of Explorer

Popups be gone.

Lots of other cool features, too.

http://www.mozilla.org/

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. Lay off the porn.

:evilgrin:

[terrya]

7. "snicker. Yeah, right, BtBM"

Sure...like that's going to happen. :evilgrin:

T

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. I played online strip poker once.

But it was on IRC, so we had to go by the honor system. And I have a sneaking suspicion that Chloe, the 19-year-old redhead with perfect tits may not have actually been who she said she was.

[terrya]

9. It's shocking that some people would misrepresent themselves online..

Some of my cherished illusions were completely destroyed after I came to that realization.

I think your suspicions about Chloe may be correct ones. Sad, isn't it?

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. Chloe? Is that you?

:o

[mcscajun]

13. You need more than anti pop-up software.

The basics are of course Anti-Virus and Firewall software, and using your ISP and browser capabilities to shut down all malicious 'invaders', including pop-ups.

Past that, you need Spybot Search & Destroy, Ad-Aware SE Personal, SpywareBlaster (all free, and available @ www.download.com).

Based on the reported behavior, you *may* have gotten a 'browser hijack', though. If you install and run all of the above, keep them updated, and are still getting pop-ups, then that might be the case. Stronger measures (like HijackThis, also free, and/or Pest Patrol, $50) might be called for.

Good luck.