peg20, FSD, etc
After thousands of annoying pop-ups, and several instances of aggressive pop-ups (can't close window, make themselves your home page, add themseleves to favourites, etc) I resorted to the following action;
Go into Internet Options. You're looking for the ActiveX controls ok, so Internet Options->Security->Custom level, and there they are. Enable the first, disable the next two, and 'prompt' the next two. 'Ok' it, 'apply' it and get the hell outa there...
But....you need to know this. Your browsing from now on will be a tiny bit different. You will be promted before you can open a website page. You'll spend a nano second doing it for ever more. You will say 'Yes' to 99% of prompts. You will say no to the pop-ups that can now no longer just pop up. You will get used to it. Try it for a day or so.
Hate it? Changing it back is as easy as it was first time
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