Block Those Nasty Pop-Ups!

The Simplest and Most Effective Pop-up Blocking Methods are Free!

1. Switch to Mozilla Firefox
Go ahead, I will wait. Please visit www.getfirefox.com and get with the program. There is an entire community of thousands of people who develop tools to try to make your browsing experience faster, safer, more reliable and more efficient. It is free so unlike most browser solutions- its focused on people not money.

2. Download and install Service Pack 2 if you are on XP.
SP2 comes with a built in pop-up blocker for Internet Extorter er... I mean Explorer.
This will help out the dedicated IE fans out there.

3. Keep Your Computer Clean of Spy-ware and Ad-ware.
There are many different approaches to this. I will post some links and an overview soon, but for the most part, Keep your security suite up to date and get these programs from file hippo
AVG- a free antivirus program
Ad-Aware-fights them nasty bug
Spybot Search & Destroy-fights nasty bugs
Spyware Blaster-Works like a flu shot
CCleaner-Crud Cleaner-the equivalent of a colonoscapy.