Popup Blockers

Pop-Up Sentry! is an easy to use and very effective popup and advertising blocker, that is able to eliminate just about any type of advertising, including Flash, DHTML, floating ads and other techniques. We tested it at www.popuptest.com and it eliminated 100% of the simple and advanced popup ads. In addition, the program can prevent Messenger ads, Spyware ads and prevent your homepage from being changed by hi-jacker applications. You can configure Pop-Up Sentry! to block all supported ad types, or just the ones that you find most annoying. It also allows you to exclude specific sites from blocking. In addition to the ad blocking, the program also includes cookie management and cleaning as well as History cleaning of browsing and computer tracks.

Super Ad Blocker can block just about any type of advertising, including, but not limited to popup ads, fly-in, slide-in, flash, rich media, pop-unders, messenger ads, and more. We have tested it with various ads as well as on popuptest.com and it was indeed the first product we have seen to block all the ads we tested. Blocked ad images in web pages are marked with placeholders and can easily be turned on with a single click. In addition, the program offers adware/spyware blocking, deletion of common internet tracks, as well as cookie management and a statistical overview (with graphs) of blocked ads. The optional Whitelist allows you to fully or partially exclude selected site from blocking, and you can also exclude secure server pages (https) from blocking. Super Ad Blocker runs in the system tray or as Internet Explorer toolbar. A very capable ad blocker that truly lives up to his name. The additional privacy cleaning features make it a great deal.

PopUpCop blocks popups and a variety of other annoyances that can degrade the quality of your daily web surfing experience. The program tightly integrates into the internet explorer toolbar and becomes part of your browser. Among the features are cookie blocking, script blocking, blocking of window resizing, applet blocking, flash blocking and a lot more. PopUpCop offers different levels of blocking that you can customize to your need. The levels can be quickly changed from the IE toolbar, using a simple slider to change between them. In addition, the program allows you to quickly clean your browser cache, view source for frames and a handy indicator light that shows you if any items were blocked on the current page - if they were, you can click it and review them.

PopupDummy! blocks popup ads automatically in Internet Explorer, before you even see them. In addition, it also offers the ability to manually block any popup ads on your desktop coming from adware programs. Additional features include optional Flash blocking, a white-list to exclude windows from being closed, sound effects, one-key bypass, window title filters, normalize option and more. PopupDummy! does not require any configuration and will start killing popups right away. It can also list al cookies and allows you to delete them.

Pop-Up Stopper Professional blocks pop-up and pop-under ads in all major browsers, including AOL, MSN, Netscape, Internet Explorer, YahooSBC, WMConnect, Opera & others. It can optionally notify you by sound or system tray notification when a popup window is closed and you can temporarily disable blocking by holding down the CTRL key when clicking on a link. The program is easy to use and closes just about all pop-up/under windows, however it lacks some advanced user configuration and exclusion options.

Pop Up Washer intelligently blocks intrusive pop-up ads and messenger windows and allows popups to open that are triggered when you click on a link, so it does not interfere with your normal browsing. The program stops pop-ups at the Internet Explorer engine before they appear, preventing screen flickers or one-second popups as with some other programs. In addition, you can keep a White List od sites that you do want to allow popups on, as well as a Black List for sites that should always be blocked.

Super Pop-up Blocker is a tool to eliminate browser pop-up windows in Internet Explorer. It allows to keep a white list of acceptable sites and can also be temporarily disabled with a hotkey of your choice. The log function allows you to review closed popups and allows to add selected items to the white list. Super Pop-up Blocker runs in the system tray and can optionally sound and alert each time a popup is closed.

Filtergate is a 4-in-1 filtering package that allows you to remove web advertising and popup windows as well as protect your privacy and filter adult content. It uses a patented filtering technology to analyze each web page decides whether the content is an advertisement or promotion, a friendly cookie or a rogue cookie. You can exclude sites from being filtered, set custom filtering parameters and more. Filtering is based on an internal filtering engine, that can be udated online. You also choose to turn off all banner sized graphics, as well as all offsite graphics, blinking text, background music and more. FilterGate does not require you to set proxy settings in your browser.

PopupAgent kills and stops advertising pop-ups. It uses automatic popup blocking technology combined with privacy protection tools that help you manage your cookies, remove browsing history and more. In addition, the program includes an option to block many advertising banners and graphics (via Hosts file) in order to conserve bandwidth. PopupAgent can also prevent your browser home page from being changed by other programs or web sites.

GleanerSoft Ad Popup Terminator is an intelligent popup killer that can automatically identify unwanted popup windows generated by web pages and kill them before they appear on the screen. In addition, you can create your own list of sites that should be excluded from popup blocking. The program performed well in our test (www.popuptest.com) and eliminated all common popup windows as well as modeless popups. Popup Terminator runs in the system tray, keeps statistics of terminated popups and can notify you by beep or icon blinking when a popup window is killed. An additional feature allows you to restore the default IE right click menu if it has been disabled on a site.

AdShield is a pop-up and banner ad blocker that improves browser performance in several ways. It can optionally suppress the download and display of ad images, pages and pop-ups and also pre-cache pages and images, so that they load instantly when you click on a link. Each of the blocking options, as well as caching can be enabled or disabled with checkboxes. AdShield also offers a Block list and Exclude list, that allows you to automatically enable/disable blocking features for specified sites. Another feature is the detection, disabling and display of potential web bugs (small tracking images or code in web ages). AdShield integrates into Internet Explorer and is available from the right-click menu, as well as Explorer bar. The program is very flexible and allows you to block as much or as little as you want. Trial version does not expire but has some minor limitations.

MereSurfer 2004 Pro eliminates pop-up windows and clears tracks of Internet activity while surfing the Web. It installs as an IE toolbar and enables you to add web sites to a list of trusted sites which can then be excluded from selected cleaning operations as well as pop-up blocking. The pop-up blocker uses Artificial Intelligence to determine good pop-ups from bad ones, and it can eliminate a wide variety of pop-up and floating ads. It will even eliminate various rich media floating windows and DHTML ads that are often not supported by other Popup Blockers. The Internet track removal features are only average, but the pup-up elimination is very good and highly effective.

Popup Purger is an intelligent popup blocker for Internet Explorer that can block annoying popup/under ads before they even open. It features a SmartBlock Engine, that blocks unsolicited popup ads but never interferes with your normal navigation - it automatically recognizes popup window that were intentionally triggered by you. Popup Purger also comes with an option to keep your browser normalized, which will prevent pages from pulling stunts on you that open your browser in full-screen mode or without toolbar and navigation buttons. In addition to the popup/under blocking, the program can also block web page dialogs, hide or close all IE windows via Bosskey and exclude specified sites, using a White List.

popSmarts is a smart popup killer for Internet Explorer that blocks all unwanted popup windows without interfering with your normal browsing. It does not require any additional configuration to start working and will start blocking pop-ups immediately. Any blocked window can be easily recovered if needed and opened normally by simply double-clicking on the entry in the log. You can also choose to run the program in a Record Only mode, which will log all pop-up activity but not block them. It also includes a Blacklist/Whitelist and additional Guard features to block scripting. popSmarts is integrated into the Internet Explorer browser and successfully eliminated all pop-up windows during our test. However, we didn t like the fact, that it has to run as a small toolbar along the bottom of the browser window, so it will slightly reduce your browser screen. Evaluation version can close up to 120 pop-up windows.

Popup Free is a popup tool to get rid of annoying browser popup windows and enhance your web surf experience. Kill unexpected popup windows and protect your privacy. Popup Free is simple to use and offers an additional White list, that allows you to exclude certain pop-ups from being "killed". In addition, you can also choose to turn off banner ads. Works with IE 4.0 or above.

IEJet is a small plug-in of Internet Explorer, that automatically blocks most common popup windows as well as Messenger spam. It also lets you disable Flash animations and block large images (e.g > 50k). The program integrates into the IE toolbar and can be temporaily disabled with a Hotkey.

AD Killer can automatically remove annoying ads and popup windows when surfing the web. In addition, the program can block ad sites, block banner ads and some Flash ads. The program offers several levels of sensitivity, allowing you to adjust the adjust the blocking options for popups. Despite the aggressive name, the current version of AD Killer performed rather poor during our tests, it missed several common popups as well as Flash ads.