Pop-ups that use Microsofts IE windows 'Warning dialog box'

I have a pop-up killer that works fine. With one exception- some of the
advertisers I come across are somehow (inserting their message
and) activating the IE 'warning box' to ask "are ya sure you don't wanna
buy my crap."

How can I stop this? Thanks.

 

Sounds like JavaScript to me. Try disabling JavaScript in internet
options>Advanced tab.

 

I am reminded of the old joke about the guy who tells his doctor that
it hurts when he makes some specific move with his arm, and the doctor
says "well, quit doing that". If you want to get rid of IE specific
annoyances, quit using IE. I use various versions of Mozilla,
Phoenix, and Firebird (newer versions of Phoenix are called Firebird)
with an assortment of add-ons - they come with popup's turned off and
the add-ons allow suppressing Flash (either with a kill button or by
replacing them with start buttons) and suppressing ads in general, and
I don't have those problems. The only thing I use IE for is the
occasional site that I have to access but is so IE specific that it
can't be used with any other browser.


T.E.D. ( - e-mail must contain "T.E.D." or my .sig in the body)

 

That is the messenger service of XP or 2000
Go here for instructions on how to stop it...
http://www.auburn.edu/oit/security/messengerService.html
Cheers
TH

 

http://www.bootdisk.com/xptop5.htm#3

 

Sorry Plato, if I had known you had a link to that site I would have
referred through you....my bad....
TH

 

Thanks to all for the replies. To address some of your comments (in no
particular order)----

I'm running Windows'98. I downloaded Mozilla a few weeks ago. I try it out
now and then. Trying to get comfy with it.

I'm pretty confident in my systems security & settings. [Knock wood..]
I have Zone Alarm / AVP / The Cleaner / Ad Aware / SpyBot. All kept
current. I have also tested my security/settings using the tools offered at
Gibson Research & PCWorld.

The ads that I'm talking about here are casino type. They advertise on some
of the web sites I visit.

 

Do not give programming rights to the sites you visit; it's as simple
as that. Pop-up killers are just band-aids that try to that in a
leaky way, but as long as you run scripts and ActiveX shite, the pain
will continue. Accept that some crappy sites won't work unless you
allow them to program your PC; throw those sites away.

What I do is set up different browsers in different ways...

1) Netscape 4.8 set to NOT run any scripts of Java
2) Netscape 7.0 set to run scripts and Java
3) IE 6 set to Prompt on every attempt to automate/program

In addition, IE is set to disallow changes to home and search pages,
not "install on demand", and lock out "third party browser
enhancements" (i.e. BHOs).

If I just want to surf without hassles, I use Netscape 4.8, or (if in
a trusting mood) Netscape 7, knowing the way I've set up Netscape 7 is
going to mean pop-ups and pickpockery.

If I want to see what a site does, I use IE. The way it's set up,
every liberty attempted by the site will show up on radar, meaning
I'll get prompted to death - but I'll also get a good impression on
what the site is trying to pull.

Specific sites that I trust, and which need active content, I add to
IE's Trusted Zone. Unfortunately there's no equivalent in Netscape,
neither is there the option to be prompted on intrusion attempts.
With Netscape, it's either "trust everything" or "trust nothing".

A site that just *has* to use the Latest Technology, or rely on
scripting to do simple navigation that HTML does perfectly well, won't
work in Netscape 4.8 with tyhe settings I use. 95% of the time, my
response will be "your loss, asshole, I'm off to a less piggy
alternative". Rarely will I bother with that site further.

You can do the same thing in different ways; set Netscape 7 to run
nothing and IE to run everything, or whatever, but that's the idea.
If I'm allowing sites to program my PC, I'm not surprised when they do

"Why do I keep open buckets of petrol next to all the
ashtrays in the lounge, when I don't even have a car?"

 

I suggest giving Mozilla 1.5a a whirl. I keep Opera available instead
of IE for crap sites but it seems I hardly ever need it any more. Peg
did find a site that none of our browsers could handle the other day,
and I'm sure many such crap sites exist, but no site is worth fooling
around having IE for Just eradicate it and be done with it.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg