effective popup blocker

[sid]

just a little personal recommendation: one that i have been happy with for 5 years now and works with all windoze versions 95 and up (at least those i tried it on):

surf in peace: http://www.iconlabs.net/sip.html

small, does what is supposed to do - block popups - and by putting it in your startup folder itll work most effectively.
no adware, spyware,... and its freeware.

[Weedpacket]

I just use Mozilla.

Moving this to the Echo Lounge, where one of the moderators there might want to merge it with the existing popup thread.

[JHallam]

I would reccomend the Google Bar (http://toolbar.google.com/)

Very useful and has an effective pop up blocker!

[sijis]

The best pop up blocked i've used is actually part of an application that 'enhances' Internet Explorer by allowing a tabular feature (like Opera). (IE support only).

The program is called "Avant Browser". Its freeware and doesn't have adware stuff. URL: http://www.avantbrowser.com

[sid]

teh big advantage of surf in peace compared to all other programs ive tried so far is its popup filter. i do not want to block ALL popups - just the annoying ones - once added to the black list (takes 5 seconds) - the popup will get killed every time it tries to open. also SIP needs hardly any resources - thanks for your suggestions though - i will check out what i havent tried yet.