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Reduce and Eliminate pop-up advertising in your Web browser
Published June 20th, 2006 in All Categories, Malware, Security
They just keep appearing. If you shut one down, sometimes many replace it. It seems that the 
“shadier” the web site you are visiting, the more likely you are to encounter a seemingly endless cascade of pop-up web advertisements. But, even reputable sites like Weather.com and About.com use pop-up ads as a marketing tool.
For users on a T1 or broadband connection they may be little more than an annoyance. However, many home Internet users are still connecting through slower dial-up connections. At that speed the information you actually want can take forever to download to your screen. You certainly don’t want to waste bandwidth downloading two or three other screens you didn’t even request.
For computers that aren’t kept up to date with patches from the operating system and respective application vendors and computers that aren’t running current antivirus or firewall software these pop-up windows can also pose a security risk on some of those “shadier” sites. Stop Pop-Ups
