PopUpCop 2.5

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• Reviewed by: Robert Vamosi
• Reviewed on: 10/13/2004
• Released on: 08/27/2004

Sometimes pop-up windows serve a purpose, such as providing additional information or linking to an external Web site. But most of the time, they just litter your desktop with annoying ads. Thankfully, PopUpCop 2.5 stops all kinds of ads--animation, audio files, pop-ups, and even cookies. (Download PopUpCop 2.5 here.) In order to remove all of the ad-serving software that's already installed on your PC, you'll still need to run either Spybot Search and Destroy or Ad-aware, but PopUpCop 2.5 can protect your desktop from future ad-serving software, annoying pop-ups, and malicious scripts. If you use Internet Explorer, PopUpCop is a more complete choice.

Once you've download PopUpCop 2.5, it automatically installs on your Internet Explorer toolbar and waits there, ready to stop pop-up windows the next time you launch IE. PopUpCop doesn't require you to reboot to get started after installation. For $19.95, which is comparable to other ad-stopping products, registration includes all users of a single computer when entered by a user with administrative authority.

PopUpCop's IE toolbar is clean and easy to understand. A police badge icon on the left opens a drop-down menu of configuration and technical-support options. A slider bar in the middle lets you quickly select preconfigured low, medium, or high protection settings. A stoplight on the right of the toolbar indicates Java or ActiveX advertising script activity on a Web page. Finally, a handy display at the far right shows you at a glance the features that you've turned on or off.

Click the PopUpCop badge icon, and a drop-down menu displays your configuration choices. And this app gives you more choices than any other pop-up stopper currently on the market. PopUpCop lets you choose to allow all pop-ups, require the app to ask about each pop-up, or simply disable Web features such as Java and ActiveX scripts, images, animation, background music, and Flash movies. And as if these controls weren't enough, PopUpCop lets you customize its treatment of mouse scripts, useless warning dialogs, and window frame resizing. You can even customize PopUpCop's own setting controls; for example, you can remove options from the configuration panel.

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