Hundreds of "pops-up"

Is-it some thing I can do to stop thoses "pops-up" to hit
my computer.

They hit you with hundred of "pops-up" and at the same
time they offer you to be able to stop them by buying
from them their software.

I feel that I am a "Blackmail" victim.

Is it somebody out there to tell me what to do to not
participate to that blackmail.

Thank you,

Percy

MM
Sat Aug 09 14:15:02 CDT 2003

I have a NETGEAR RP114 router. Do I also need to use a
firewall to prevent popups?

Which is better the XP Pro firewall or the McaFee?

Will this degrade the performance at all ?

Thanks


>-----Original Message-----
>Get and install a personal firewall to block all
>unnecessary ports. Zone Alarm, Kerio, others
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Is-it some thing I can do to stop thoses "pops-up" to
hit
>>my computer.
>>
>>They hit you with hundred of "pops-up" and at the same
>>time they offer you to be able to stop them by buying
>>from them their software.
>>
>>I feel that I am a "Blackmail" victim.
>>
>>Is it somebody out there to tell me what to do to not
>>participate to that blackmail.
>>
>>Thank you,
>>
>>Percy
>>.
>>
>.
>

Steven
Sat Aug 09 15:18:53 CDT 2003

If your Netgear [that is an excellent consumer firewall] is configured properly
you should not need another firewall though a personal firewall can give you an extra
margin of protection in that it can create outbounf firewall rules mapped to an
application [at least Kerio does]. Go to http://scan.sygatetech.com/ to double check
that your external ports are closed. You also may want to scan/clean your computer
for adware/malware with something like Spybot Search and Destroy which is a free
download. Finally install a pop up stopper. The new Google tool bar [beta 2.0] has a
built in pop up stopper that works extremely well in my opinion. --- Steve

http://security.kolla.de/
http://toolbar.google.com/index-beta.php

"MM" <mail24558@pop.net> wrote in message
news:00e301c35eaa$88aa2890$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I have a NETGEAR RP114 router. Do I also need to use a
> firewall to prevent popups?
>
> Which is better the XP Pro firewall or the McaFee?
>
> Will this degrade the performance at all ?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Get and install a personal firewall to block all
> >unnecessary ports. Zone Alarm, Kerio, others
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>Is-it some thing I can do to stop thoses "pops-up" to
> hit
> >>my computer.
> >>
> >>They hit you with hundred of "pops-up" and at the same
> >>time they offer you to be able to stop them by buying
> >>from them their software.
> >>
> >>I feel that I am a "Blackmail" victim.
> >>
> >>Is it somebody out there to tell me what to do to not
> >>participate to that blackmail.
> >>
> >>Thank you,
> >>
> >>Percy
> >>.
> >>
> >.
> >

YoKenny
Sat Aug 09 15:41:31 CDT 2003

MM wrote:
> I have a NETGEAR RP114 router. Do I also need to use a
> firewall to prevent popups?

The ZoneAlarm Pro firewall has a pop-up stopper but you can get the Google
toolbar pop-up stopper and Kerio firewall which are both free. Kerio will
provide outbound protection so that you know which application is connecting
to the Internet.

> Which is better the XP Pro firewall or the McaFee?

I would not let any McAfee product on my system due to resource consumption
and performance hit.

> Will this degrade the performance at all ?

Kerio and Google toolbar have very little performance hit on my system.
http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html
http://toolbar.google.com/index-beta.php

>> -----Original Message-----
>> Get and install a personal firewall to block all
>> unnecessary ports. Zone Alarm, Kerio, others
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> Is-it some thing I can do to stop thoses "pops-up" to hit
>>> my computer.
>>>
>>> They hit you with hundred of "pops-up" and at the same
>>> time they offer you to be able to stop them by buying
>>> from them their software.
>>>
>>> I feel that I am a "Blackmail" victim.
>>>
>>> Is it somebody out there to tell me what to do to not
>>> participate to that blackmail.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Percy

Lanwench
Sat Aug 09 19:28:29 CDT 2003

If you mean a FR114P, you have a firewall right there.

MM wrote:
> I have a NETGEAR RP114 router. Do I also need to use a
> firewall to prevent popups?
>
> Which is better the XP Pro firewall or the McaFee?
>
> Will this degrade the performance at all ?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Get and install a personal firewall to block all
>> unnecessary ports. Zone Alarm, Kerio, others
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> Is-it some thing I can do to stop thoses "pops-up" to hit
>>> my computer.
>>>
>>> They hit you with hundred of "pops-up" and at the same
>>> time they offer you to be able to stop them by buying
>>> from them their software.
>>>
>>> I feel that I am a "Blackmail" victim.
>>>
>>> Is it somebody out there to tell me what to do to not
>>> participate to that blackmail.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Percy
>>> .
>>>
>> .