I use both... to be hinest itst he only way to go. Some sites need IE some need firefox.
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Maybe he knows that he will eventually wander off to some dodgy pornsites even if he only meant to visit the spring forums?rattle wrote:^ Needs more tentacles and loli innards.
Does it really matter when you know it won't have issues with the website you're going to use it for?AF wrote:Not really, it was buggy and full of security holes and unsupported features.
I haven't had a pop up...since...I honestly can't remember. Probably since I switched from IE.Snipawolf wrote:I really could care less about getting something new unless it could block all these damn popups I keep getting due to some stupid adware... I tried so hard, and spent a week straight of free time trying to destroy it, but it keeps coming back...
I also have "Adblock." An extension that allows me to hide those annoying Flash Ads, and any advertisement in the page that is in anyway imported from the html:
.swf
.jpg
.gif
and the occasional "frame" that hosts ads. Lets me use some websites as if I'm a subscriber (even though I of course don't pay).
Honestly Firefox does everything you'd want a Browser to do, and probably everything you didn't know you wanted a Browser to do. (download YouTube videos, pull apart html blocks from divs and tables)
That is why I use Firefox (to put it simply). The Extensions. (of course ignoring it's superiority in general
)I re-read your post...and realized what you were talking about... I still think firefox would fix it, but I'm not sure if Adblock would work in your case.Snipawolf wrote:I tried so hard, and spent a week straight of free time trying to destroy it, but it keeps coming back...
Maybe try Spybot search and destroy and Ad-Aware I'm not sure if your problem is spyware etc. that screwed up ie or not...but running a system check with these might help.
sooo....yeah...completely unrelated to Avatars
Tried both of those, a prevx trial, windows defender, and a few others I forgot.
Well, the popups are sometimes random, and others are related to what I search for in Google. Quite annoying.
Edit: If it was just standard popups, I could live with that, but no, it has to have those streaming video popups. Some types of videos my comp can't play. So, when it opens them up, I generally have 100 percent CPU usage, lag like hell, and have to use Windows Task Manager to get rid of IExplore.exe which contains all of the internet related stuff.
Well, the popups are sometimes random, and others are related to what I search for in Google. Quite annoying.
Edit: If it was just standard popups, I could live with that, but no, it has to have those streaming video popups. Some types of videos my comp can't play. So, when it opens them up, I generally have 100 percent CPU usage, lag like hell, and have to use Windows Task Manager to get rid of IExplore.exe which contains all of the internet related stuff.
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Felix the Cat
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Download Firefox and you'll get 27% more intarwebz!Snipawolf wrote:I use IE... I really could care less about getting something new unless it could block all these damn popups I keep getting due to some stupid adware... I tried so hard, and spent a week straight of free time trying to destroy it, but it keeps coming back...
Slightly more seriously, surfing the net with IE is like screwing a well-used dirty hooker without protection. All you get is slow action and viruses.
Dodgy is subjectiveZpock wrote:Maybe he knows that he will eventually wander off to some dodgy pornsites even if he only meant to visit the spring forums?rattle wrote:^ Needs more tentacles and loli innards.
Does it really matter when you know it won't have issues with the website you're going to use it for?AF wrote:Not really, it was buggy and full of security holes and unsupported features.
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smokingwreckage
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It's really really easy to go from IE to Firefox. Totally painless and may solve your popup problem just by virtue of changing programs.
Seriously, everyone I know who's tried Firefox has liked it, geek and non geek alike. I have ONE problem with Firefox, it opens PDF more slowly than I'd like. There are one or two pages that must have IE, so I use IE for them, but that's pretty rare.
Seriously, everyone I know who's tried Firefox has liked it, geek and non geek alike. I have ONE problem with Firefox, it opens PDF more slowly than I'd like. There are one or two pages that must have IE, so I use IE for them, but that's pretty rare.
@Snipa
best way to get rid of adware like that is to use pstools to find out the dll's its loading. The reason it'll keep coming back is it will detect when you close or delete the process and spawn another one, possibly even with a different name. You need to find the root program and take it out. Often you can't delete it because its loaded. To fix this simply set the permissions on the program to everyone deny and reboot.
best way to get rid of adware like that is to use pstools to find out the dll's its loading. The reason it'll keep coming back is it will detect when you close or delete the process and spawn another one, possibly even with a different name. You need to find the root program and take it out. Often you can't delete it because its loaded. To fix this simply set the permissions on the program to everyone deny and reboot.
