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November 7, 2003  |  Paul Thurrott  |  News
IE 6.05, Pop-Up Ad Blocking to Debut in Windows XP SP2

You won't need to wait for Longhorn in late 2005 to get pop-up ad blocking in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE). Microsoft will release IE 6.05 as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), which is due in the first half of 2004. Whether IE 6.05 will include some of the other new IE features, such as the new download manager, found in the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2003 Longhorn build is unclear. But pop-up ad blocking is definitely among the changes we can expect, as are other new security features such as more locked-down Internet security zones.



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You don't even have to wait for early '04. Stop by http://toolbar.google.com. Unobtrusive, works well, free and it's here now.

Capo -November 18, 2003



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Carlos Gousse -July 1, 2004



I have got them all. Everything one might need against popups, adware, spyware, trojans, or viruses and other threats.... I got really everything, inspite of this, i am still having popup ads. What's the weirdest of all, is the fact that my computer is in a real athletic shape, everything is brand new, and everything is up to date. I've even turned the windows popup blocker on the aggressive mode... still doesn't work. I've even turned off windows messenger services... both of them, just to make sure i had disabled the right one. No changes at all... I am even searching for files manually; like istbar.dll, ist.dll, atom.exe, blah atom.exe, and things like that... there's nothing i can find wrong in my computer; but i am still having popads... Microsoft homepages help you less than little in such cases. They even redirected me to a page where spybot s&d was the least appreciated of all spyware prgms... Damn, i said, those guys don't even know how to use Spybot which is a full ranged, complete program... That's how we get helped when we need it... Anyway... this' becoming already boring... see y'all ans good luck.

zotrules -August 1, 2005



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naser -August 30, 2005


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