Norton Protection

te12c02w

I have been using Norton protection on my computers for several years now with not much to complain about but recently Norton sent a notice that it was time to upgrade. So I did. Everything went well, but when it was over there was a message that Norton no longer offered popup protection. I had forgotten how nice it was not to see all that stuff. I get all kinds of popups now. Any suggestions for alternatives out there?

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Firefox

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ProWallGuy

I second that motion. Since using Firefox for a couple years now, I don't recall what a pop-up is.

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Celtic

The mozilla clones (Mozilla, Netscape, Firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey, etc)all pretty much have pop-up blockers in them.

You can also install an add-on called "Ad-blocker" which blocks the ads right on the pages (for mozilla clones)

Here is a link to mozilla clones: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/


(I use the word "clone" very generically here)

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SquirrelNmoose

Agreed - Firefox is generaly safer, mostly because it does not support active x natively. Also there are many useful addons, which you can choose to install or keep it light and quick.

Internet Explorer 7 is much improved also.

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te12c02w

Thanks for the insight. I'll look into those options.

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dayspring

Thats wierd, I have Norton 360 on all three computers with no problem with pop-ups at all. I browse using IE7 mostly. Something on our 'puters have a blocker no doubt. IE7 has one, just looked.

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theroofinggod

I have vista w/norton 360,the windows defender in vista blocks the popuPS (I Think),also with IE7 browser

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MrRSBMHandyman

Had Norton, Had McCaffy, got worms and viruses with both. I run "Stop Sign" now and love it. 2 years, no worms, no viruses, and it has spam blocker, and popup blocker. With the first 2, I went through 4 home pc's, Crashed them behond repair. oh by the way at that time I also was using AOL as my server. I got rid of that and got Peoplepc for a server now and havent had any trouble since.

comp

crazy,,,, i was on AOL and tried StopSign , and got worms and had to use Symantec to clean it up

Celtic

Had to have been the AV software - not the BS AOL product



Much of these issues become non-events when you use a browser OTHER than MSIE. (Which is part of the AOL package).


...you also might consider changing your browsing habits ....

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gideond

You want a good AV your get NOD32. You want a good security suite, you get Kaspersky. Firefox, AdBlock Plus, and NoScript all help quite a bit as well. And there are several free anti-spyware apps like Spyware Blaster and Super Anti Spyware that do an excellent job.

daArch

First: on topic - A vote for Opera browser here. Stops pop-ups also. And I prefer it a little over Firefox - but each to their own. Gotta love all the options available.

Second: to veer a bit. Few years ago, Norton failed me miserably. Allowed MyDoom to reek havac. Have gone with Grissoft's AVG Free. So far so good.

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KentWhitten

that's the easiest step in prevention

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creteartisan

firefox+free avg+spybot+xp firewall = good to go