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There's a program called POW! at that could help you. Every time an unwanted window pops up, you can set the program to terminate any window that pops up with that same title. This saves a lot of time and drastically reduces the number of pop-ups, but I don't think anything can completely rid you of the annoying things.
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I like popnot, it works pretty good:
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Or a more general approach to banners stuff like that:
eDexter ... (something of Pyrenean software? Anyway - a search like
should get you going...)
Combine that with a dedicated hosts file, and you'll have very little problems with these kind of things..
(agreed, not pretty useful when developing, since you'd better turn of script error reporting, but for common day usage...)
I could Email or put up somewhere my $windir\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file as a starting point, if you're interested... Every once so often I just empty it out, and add entries as I find them, as to not get a too bloated file.. WXP DNS Caching is fine for moderate large hosts files...
(eDexter works by being a dedicated webserver, which returns a dedicated (predefined, default empty, 1x1 pixel) GIF image on every request made to it. It binds to 127.0.0.1, and your host file should contain mappings for unwanted sites to the address eDexter is listening on...); You will have to do some patching if you want to run IIS as well, but generally there are no problems...
OK, perhaps I'm not making too much sense right now, but it is getting late over here, so just give it a try..
As per popup windows, it won't really cure'em, but some get blocked, and most other just open up an empty window.. and since it doesn't forcebly close windows like other programs, or functions as a proxy (with all problems and/or benefits of that solution) it is as transparant as it gets... Only drawback is that it (ofcourse) doesn't act on the actual IP addresses, but on the DNS names.. but then again, it _does_ make a difference...
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saybibi();
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#include <stddiscl.h>
eDexter ... (something of Pyrenean software? Anyway - a search like
should get you going...)
Combine that with a dedicated hosts file, and you'll have very little problems with these kind of things..
(agreed, not pretty useful when developing, since you'd better turn of script error reporting, but for common day usage...)
I could Email or put up somewhere my $windir\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file as a starting point, if you're interested... Every once so often I just empty it out, and add entries as I find them, as to not get a too bloated file.. WXP DNS Caching is fine for moderate large hosts files...
(eDexter works by being a dedicated webserver, which returns a dedicated (predefined, default empty, 1x1 pixel) GIF image on every request made to it. It binds to 127.0.0.1, and your host file should contain mappings for unwanted sites to the address eDexter is listening on...); You will have to do some patching if you want to run IIS as well, but generally there are no problems...
OK, perhaps I'm not making too much sense right now, but it is getting late over here, so just give it a try..
As per popup windows, it won't really cure'em, but some get blocked, and most other just open up an empty window.. and since it doesn't forcebly close windows like other programs, or functions as a proxy (with all problems and/or benefits of that solution) it is as transparant as it gets... Only drawback is that it (ofcourse) doesn't act on the actual IP addresses, but on the DNS names.. but then again, it _does_ make a difference...
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saybibi();
//john
#include <stddiscl.h>
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