darkvapor 0 #1 September 12, 2003 How many popups has your Google-Bar™ blocked? 940 for me. http://toolbar.google.com/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Casch 0 #2 September 12, 2003 I have no pop-up blocker and I don't seem to need one Seriously though, I rarely get pop-ups. If you install either Ad-aware or Spybot - Search and Destroy, preferably both, you can get rid of all the spyware (i.e. pop-ups) and crap on your computer that I'm guessing is causing 90% of those popups Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viking 0 #3 September 12, 2003 don't need it, Mozilla has a built-in pop-up blocker.I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
darkvapor 0 #4 September 12, 2003 Heheh, no .. I guess I just surf too much. I don't have any of that spyware installed. I have a firewall on all the time. Along with the usual VirusScan. Ad-aware finds nothing, and I know I have nothing.. But things like weather.com, and a lot of news sites will always give you one popup from an advertiser. Visit those sites 10 times a day and those popups get annoying too.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Casch 0 #5 September 12, 2003 A firewall won't generally stop spyware because most of the time your computer readily accepts it through flash documents and other online media, it sort of snakes it's way onto your computer but rarely actually breaks any "rules" and most virus scans won't have definitions for spyware as it's not technically a virus. You're right the news site popups are just plain annoying popups directly from the news site, but as I said earlier, 90% of pop-ups that people get are generated from their own computers...bah... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airann 1 #6 September 12, 2003 I just started using it very recently and its 72. I really like it. Google is my home page. I was getting involved in the pop wars semi frequently. Very annoying. What the hell is a Blog... that orange button deal? I havent pushed it. It may be like the Borg on Star Trek. Oh man, then its over. THa BOrg... Spoken like 'THa BEars' ~AirAnn~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
darkvapor 0 #7 September 12, 2003 Perhaps, but none of my popups are generated when I'm not actively surfing. If popups started appearing randomly throughout the day, then I would suspect something like that gator software or another spyware, but all of my popups come from news sites and similar popups. I keep my firewall security settings very high, and very few programs have internet access. In fact, I block many microsoft applications and processes from internet access as well. But I didn't start this thread to discuss popups and their causes, just to see people's success stories and numbers from the google-bar, which I think is great. I've used the googlebar since it originally came out, and now its starting to take on some cooler features than just being an interface to the google search engine. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pds 0 #8 September 12, 2003 dude.. this has got to be the most gratuitous post i have seen in quite some time. right on par with "what is your dz.com username?" good work.namaste, motherfucker. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
b1jercat 0 #9 September 12, 2003 what i want to know is what do you get when you type in boobies! blues jerry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #10 September 12, 2003 QuoteA firewall won't generally stop spyware because most of the time your computer readily accepts it through flash documents and other online media, it sort of snakes it's way onto your computer but rarely actually breaks any "rules" and most virus scans won't have definitions for spyware as it's not technically a virus. You're right the news site popups are just plain annoying popups directly from the news site, but as I said earlier, 90% of pop-ups that people get are generated from their own computers...bah... I have spyblocker and adaware on my system - still have 90 blocked pop ups on my google bar._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RevJim 0 #11 September 12, 2003 Quotewhat i want to know is what do you get when you type in boobies! blues jerry Forums: Search Results Your search for boobies returned 8934 results Ouch! It's your life, live it! Karma RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pds 0 #12 September 12, 2003 QuoteQuotewhat i want to know is what do you get when you type in boobies! blues jerry Forums: Search Results Your search for boobies returned 8934 results Ouch! hey jim, he be talkin about google. 445,000 documents. lol.namaste, motherfucker. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RevJim 0 #13 September 12, 2003 QuoteQuoteQuotewhat i want to know is what do you get when you type in boobies! blues jerry Forums: Search Results Your search for boobies returned 8934 results Ouch! hey jim, he be talkin about google. 445,000 documents. lol. 3560 if you just search images. (And the first page is, um, nice!)It's your life, live it! Karma RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pds 0 #14 September 12, 2003 BOOBIES!!!!!!!! technology is great, eh, jim. wonder if all the guys that little girl proclaims love for know about each other. lol. they are all on different servers.namaste, motherfucker. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RevJim 0 #15 September 12, 2003 I think that was one of those Fark.com photoshop contests. If so, they were all original, huh? It's your life, live it! Karma RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildblue 7 #16 September 12, 2003 QuoteI think that was one of those Fark.com photoshop contests No, actually there was a website out there somewhere, where you put in your name and it put it on that paper for you like that.it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hummusx 0 #17 September 12, 2003 244 but it's only been installed for a week or two. Life is so much better now that I can check the weather without closing down popup ads. ____________________________________ It’s like selling a million grills all at the same time…with extended warranties. -Hank Hill Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jfields 0 #18 September 12, 2003 Only 27 in a month or so. But that is after they get through a pop-up-blocking proxy filter I set up. Between the two, I get none. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #19 September 12, 2003 None. I use Mozilla, because it's faster. For reasons yet unknown, google doesn't make a googleBar for Mozilla. That's fine, because all of its features are built into Mozilla, anyways. I haven't had an unwanted pop-up in over a year. Yay! _Am__ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhillyKev 0 #20 September 12, 2003 How about wanted pop-ups? Does Mozilla give you an option to disable the blocker for certain sites that you need pop-ups to work? And does it alert you when it blocks one in any way? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jfields 0 #21 September 12, 2003 We can't use Mozilla, for compatibility reasons. So we use IE with blocking and keep a clean system that does what we want. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jfields 0 #22 September 12, 2003 You hit one of the reasons we use the system we do. Blocks everything we don't want, but lets us choose to allow the pop-ups we need. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhillyKev 0 #23 September 12, 2003 ok...starting a new thread...justin and andy...please come over and answer a couple things for me when you have a sec. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
storm1977 0 #24 September 12, 2003 153, but i have only had it for about a week ----------------------------------------------------- Sometimes it is more important to protect LIFE than Liberty Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fast 0 #25 September 12, 2003 QuoteBOOBIES!!!!!!!! technology is great, eh, jim. wonder if all the guys that little girl proclaims love for know about each other. lol. they are all on different servers. That search encompases like, so many threads on dz.com its not even funny!~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
