How do I block/remove online pop-ups?

**Ebadaah** · 25-02-2009

Whenever I am online on the internet, many advertisements pop-ups on my screen. I have to cancel pop-ups each time they appears on my screen.
This becomes really disturbing.Is there any way to block or simply remove these pop-ups?
Please suggest.

**Trio** · 25-02-2009

The on-line popups or advertisements that appears on your screen are nothing but because of SPYWARE.

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**deveritt** · 25-02-2009

Spyware, also known as adware is typically bundled with shareware and includes a mechanism for tracking your online behavior and reporting it to a centralized server. The centralized server builds a profile of your browsing characteristics and serves advertising and pop-ups that suit your online habits. It isn't a bad concept: Instead of bombarding you with random advertisements, someone somewhere decided to let you develop your own advertising profile and then feed you ads that are targeted to your online behavior. However, spyware has no place on the company's LAN.

The best way to remove spyware is to not allow it in the first place. Don't load shareware or freeware on production machines. Also, avoid Web advertisements. Some spyware can be loaded simply by clicking on a Web advertisement in a browser. Since your company's LAN is for company business, block known advertisement sites. Blocking these sites has the added benefit of increasing available bandwidth to the Internet for their users.

The best way to block ad sites is to send the ad request from your Web browser to the host machine's loop-back address. To do this, add a 127.0.0.1 bad_ad_site.com entry in the host file of every machine on your network. Then, when a Web page contains a reference to an ad located on the bad_ad_site.com server, your browser will first consult the hosts file to locate the IP address before sending a DNS request for the ad site content. The request for content will appear blank in the browser, so no cookies or spyware will be loaded or accessed.