Freeware recommendations.

[Tom Jones]

What's your freeware recommendations when it comes to pop-up blockers and antivirus software?

 

[thedude]

I forgot the name of the popup blocker i had, but it made a machine gun noise everytime it blocked a popup . For antivirus i would say AVG. AdAware for tracking cookies.

 

[The Helper]

I use Windows Defender for Adware, as well as the Google Toolbar pop up blocker. For AVS, I don't use one that runs on my system. If I ever need a virus scan I go to

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

 

[AceHart]

Pop-up blocker?
You should be using a browser new enough to come with one!

Even IE6 added one at some point... a point years ago.

 

[ReVolver]

I think he's using FF


I use Hijack This and Windows Defender

 

[Tonks]

Google Toolbar + Firefox is what I'm running. I never get popups, and I surf around all over the place.

 

[NoxMortus]

Firefox for pop-up blocking, and AVG Anti Virus for .. well, you know.

 

[SFilip]

You can also use Adblock to get rid of popups. Although that's not it's main purpose you can easily get rid of flash and JavaScripts responcible for this.

 

[Mr Zero]

Well if you got FireFox try these two;

Adblock Plus - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/1865

NoScript - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/722

 

[Rad]

I hate toolbars, you can change popup options in firefox and do stuff like make it so windows cant resize themselves too... Dont need google for that!

But for freeware, antivirus you got:

Lavasoft, Ad-Aware SE Personal
AVG Free (Anti-Virus, Anti-spyware, and "rootkit" apparently, i just have AntiVirus)
Im also testing out this new one Spyware Doctor, it was recommended by google and it seems OK

And yeah, adblock is awesome! Once you learn a few tricks you can block a root advertisement site and ALL their advertisments will dissapear

 

[hobo218]

I use Firefox's built in pop-up blocker and then for AV I use Avast Anti-Virus.

http://www.avast.com/

 

[holy_spirit]

For pop-up i use FireFox
and KasperSky as an antivirus