How do you get rid of Pop-ups?, PC question Options

[Renee]

My new Hewlett-Packard is great. It's faster than any other computer I've ever used, but there's one super-annoying thing going on, mostly when I'm on the Internet.

POP UPS.

They're everywhere. Roughly every 3 pages I visit, it'll "re-direct" me to a pop-up. An ad. Or sometimes it'll even open up a New Tab to display another page. A "survey" which has NOTHING to do with the page I'm trying to view. Argh it's so annoying!

I've got Norton up and running on my comp, and occasionally this service lets me know that it's blocked a website here and there, but how do I get it to simply block ALL the websites I don't want to be re-directed to? Or is Norton not the key at all?

We've got a computer whiz who fixes our work computers every now and again, and I suppose I could ask him these sort of questions; problem is when he shows up, he's usually in-between jobs, and it can be hard to corner him with a bunch of no0b questions. So I'll try asking you here at Chorrol first.

Thanks

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Nov 19 2013, 02:41 AM

[Renee]

Awesome, thanks all.

I've got Internet Exploder Explorer on my comp by default, and we've also got this at my job, but there are zero pop-ups on my work computers, so there's gotta be some sort of setting I can just click. But if not, I'll see about getting Safari or Firefox.

Thanks for the link, Kiln. I'll get back to y'all and let you know what happens.

[ghastley]

Awesome, thanks all.

I've got Internet Exploder Explorer on my comp by default, and we've also got this at my job, but there are zero pop-ups on my work computers, so there's gotta be some sort of setting I can just click. But if not, I'll see about getting Safari or Firefox.

Thanks for the link, Kiln. I'll get back to y'all and let you know what happens.

You'll probably find at work that they don't get past the proxy (aka firewall) machine that's in between you and the internet. A lot of companies filter in both directions. In my opinion, that's the best approach for home, too, but it's a lot of work to configure a proxy server, and only worth doing if you have a large family with a number of home computers that can share.