Popup Blocker
Popup windows can interrupt your working on a computer, and can be very annoying if you are in the middle of doing something important or watching movies. Of course, you will not want to know about free shopping deals when you are preparing invoice for your client. Apart from interrupting your work, popups can be dangerous sometimes, and can bring viruses and spyware along with them. The best way to get rid of popups is by using a popup blocker.
Fortunately, a number of free popup blockers are available online, which are very effective in blocking annoying popups. STOPzilla, PopOops, and Windows® Shades are among the most widely used free popup blockers. Let us have a detailed idea about each of them:
Google™ Popup Blocker – It is integrated in Google™ toolbar and can effectively block majority of popups. The best thing about this toolbar is that it is free and on installing this toolbar, you will also get other features, such as Google™ search in the taskbar.
* STOPzilla: It is a very effective popup blocker, and also acts as an adblocker. It also offers protection from spyware, adware, cookies, and also hijackers thus, making your PC more secure.
* Windows® Shades: It is a free popup blocker, which acts as an add-on with Internet Explorer®. It is meant only for popup blocking and is very efficient in doing that. It runs along with Internet Explorer® and does not burn any memory when you are not online.
* Firefox: Firefox is a browser from Mozilla, which comes with an integrated popup blocker along with it. This is a freeware web browser that can be used in place of the Internet Explorer. Along with blocking popups, it offers you efficient tabbed browsing feature and can be considered if you are not someone, who is reluctant to try anything apart from Internet Explorer.
PopOops: If you are looking for a tool that can only block popups, PopOops is the one for you. It is a free tool, which simply blocks popups. It runs from system tray, unlike other popup blockers that run from browser. You can program it in such as way that it produces a sound and a balloon pops up, every time a popup is blocked.


