| Do you remember unstoppable pop up? Ever figure it | | | | ad filtering as if it was not slow enough. Microsoft |
| out? Or perhaps you spent hard earned money to | | | | playing the role of a political hack tries to be all things |
| purchase the program. Perhaps you don't have the | | | | to all people and while that is part of what propelled |
| program, but would like to know how it works. Read | | | | their operating system to prominence, it may prove |
| on. We will give it to you not for $97.95, not $67.95, | | | | to be their undoing in the final analysis. |
| not $24.95, not even $1.95 but Free!! First, however, | | | | Remote Helpdesk 1, back in the good old days, |
| there are a few things you need to know and | | | | purchased Netscape and apparently like many others |
| understand. | | | | was incensed at continually having to download |
| Properly used the popup can dispense data, bring you | | | | plug-ins for anything and everything you wanted to |
| extra visitors, collect e-mail addresses, and increase | | | | do. Along comes Microsoft with their operating |
| your revenue without being perceived as intrusive. | | | | system including a free web browser and the most |
| On the other hand, abuse it and loose visitors as | | | | commonly used plug-ins. Can you say, "jump ship!"? |
| quickly as the pop up launches... visitors who will in all | | | | Now everyone is jumping ship again. Back to the |
| probability never return. | | | | future springs eternal and Linux with its many editions |
| King Solomon said, "there is nothing new under the | | | | is right on target. Download and install the basics and |
| sun". What do you think has changed since Solomon's | | | | then get the plug-ins needed as they are needed. |
| reign? | | | | How many times have you heard your mother say, |
| This neat effect has been important to websites and | | | | "what goes around, comes around"? And, it has been |
| internet marketers since commerce and the public | | | | our experience that Linux (Remote Help Desk 1 and |
| discovered the world wide web. There are at least | | | | Computer Man Website Design use the Debian |
| two ways to accomplish the unstoppable popup. How | | | | edition) blocks more pop ups and does much more to |
| do I know? Because some of our websites employ | | | | protect a computer than most other operating |
| one or both concepts and to date both work equally | | | | systems while maintaining open source integrity for |
| well. | | | | the computer user. |
| Pop up stopper programmers are working diligently | | | | Like almost everyone else, the Tennessee Mountain |
| as we speak to prevent the unstoppable pop up but | | | | Man Computer Man hates to have research |
| have, so far, been unable to do so. | | | | interrupted by the couple of seconds it takes for a |
| Before employing the pop up in any form | | | | pop up to launch and be dispatched especially if that |
| webmasters must consider that there are reasons | | | | intrusion (as often happens) has nothing to do with |
| why pop up blockers are everywhere. The final nail in | | | | the subject matter at hand. |
| the coffin of the pop up was driven by adult web | | | | That being said it is simply a matter of proper |
| sites. People were tired of these sexually explicit ads | | | | programming. Don't go reinventing the wheel until it |
| popping up in mixed company, in front of their | | | | no longer serves your purpose. |
| mother, on the church computer and as their children | | | | Option 1: Grab the pop up that occurs at Copy the |
| surfed the web. | | | | code from the page source and change the |
| According to Wikipedia, today anyway, "Opera was | | | | information to meet your needs. |
| the first major browser to incorporate tools to block | | | | Option 2: Assuming you can prepare a standard pop |
| pop-up ads; the Mozilla browser later improved on | | | | up script, it should have about a 5 second delay, |
| this by blocking only pop-ups generated as the page | | | | perhaps the easiest and maybe the best way in the |
| loads. In the early 2000s, all major web browsers | | | | end is to encrypt your source code. You can do this |
| except Internet Explorer allowed the user to block | | | | free of cost at or |
| unwanted pop-ups almost completely." Notice their | | | | There is a lot of hype that this or that retail (notice |
| caveat, "almost completely". | | | | you have to buy it to test it and once software is |
| In 2004, Microsoft finally built one into their Windows | | | | opened it is yours) pup up blocker intercepts and |
| XP SP2 operating system along with a fire wall and | | | | stops all pop-ups. No... not yet anyway! |