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Re: Software Firewall with popup blocker that actually works?

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From: Phil Kyle
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:00
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"Gaz" <gazter@msn.com> verbally sodomised  in
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> 
> "Neil Barker" <neil@nemesis.nu> wrote in message 
> news:MPG.1d534d88efeadb45989830@127.0.0.1...
>> In article <3ksogjF103nvkU1@individual.net>, gazter@msn.com says...
>>>
>>> "Neil Barker" <neil@nemesis.nu> wrote in message
>>> news:MPG.1d53189e48a08e3d98982e@127.0.0.1...
>>
>>> > Pop-ups can be created in HTML, so that simply visiting that page
>>> > opens a pop-up. That doesn't mean you're infected - unless you count
>>> > having something like Windows whatever installed on your system.
>>>
>>> But ie6 (sp2) built in popupblocker will pick all them up without 
>>> blinking.
>>> When you go to Amazon and it brings up a pop up, i dont have a problem
>>> with
>>> it, and i suspect very few others do. People get pop up blockers
>>> because every time they go on the net they get dozens of pops up not
>>> related to the
>>> sites. They are infected.
>>
>> Jesus H. Christ.
>>
>> I really don't know how much simpler I can say this.
>>
>> YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE 'INFECTED' TO SEE POP-UPS.
> 
> i know javascript and html code can trigger legit popups. IE6 (sp2) 
> popupblocker does a perfectly reasonable job of fixing this. Even with
> no popupblocker, if your system is clean, pop ups are a rarity, unless
> you are browsing warez and porn sites.
> 
> If you are recieving none site specific popups, you are infected, FFS.
> 
> Every time i have come across a PC with a third party pop up blocker, it
> is not because they object to the odd one or two popups, but because
> they are infected and are unable to use the internet with out one.
> 
> Gaz
>> FFS.
>>
>> -- 
>> Neil Barker 
> 
> 

I wonder why Neil hasn't replied to this. 

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