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April 30, 2004

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I made the super mistake of trying to find a haircut online. Somehow, now all of my Internet visits bring me a mass of pop-up ads asking if I want to remortgage my house, date a Russian mail order bride, or buy coffee.

None of which I want to do.

Is there a program I can download to stop this agony?

Thanks!

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 11:32 AM | Comments (13) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Ad-aware is one of them. It's free. There's another one too, but I can't remember the name right now.

Check with Stevie at CaughtintheXfire. She's gotten familiar with that software because something similar happened to her.

Posted by: Ted @ at April 30, 2004 12:00 PM

2 I am more interested in whether you found a way to get a haircut over the internet. I really do hate making that 10 minute trip to the barbershop, sitting for 30 minutes awaiting my turn and then finding the whole actual cutting procedure took less than 3 minutes.

Posted by: Kang A. Roo @ at April 30, 2004 03:32 PM

3 AdAware is great.

The program that will prevent this sort of thing happening, though, is Mozilla.

And both are free!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 30, 2004 05:33 PM

4 I have been having problems in IE and just downloaded and ran AdAware... it nuked everything I missed trying to do it by hand and now I can actually use IE to check my design work again. Yay!!

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at April 30, 2004 09:55 PM

5 being the bright young frinklin I am, I downloaded both adaware and firefox last night. Much improved.

Posted by: frinklin @ at May 01, 2004 07:34 AM

6 In case anyone is interested -- because I don't LIKE Firefox (it doesn't render some of my favorite websites correctly) I use this program, in addition to AdAware Plus and Spybot Search & Destroy (free):

Spyware Guard.

HTH,
Emma

Posted by: Emma @ at May 03, 2004 12:32 AM

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