The 5 Best Ways to Block Popup Advertising

Why Use This Popup Blocker Option? This is a good no-fee choice if you are using Windows XP Service Pack 1. Tip: Right-click on "My Computer", and check "properties". That will tell you what Service Pack you are using.

If you are using XP Service Pack 2, see the next page.

Pros: Both the Google Toolbar and Yahoo Toolbar offer 98% effective popup blocking, and extra search engine functions all at once. Yahoo! Toolbar is a flawed-but-excellent popup blocker and a mediocre anti-spyware defense.

Cons: As mentioned, these products have only partially-effective anti-spyware...you will still need to install your own additional 3rd-party anti-spyware software. Also, if you are concerned about digital conspiracies, Google Toolbar does report your web browsing habits back to its home servers in an attempt to do statistical market analysis. There are those conspiracy theorists who argue that Google is the most insidious spyware of all. Read more about Google privacy controversies here.

Where to Get These Yahoo! and Google Popup Blocker Toolbars:

• Yahoo! Toolbar download available here.
  
  
• Google Toolbar available download here.