Blocking a URL

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 03/27/2010 05:06 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>>
>> The fundamental question, though, is what is causing that page to pop
>> up?    What OS? (I presume Linux based on this email list, but only
>> you can answer definitively).    Did it happen when you got the
>> machine, or recently, or when?
>>
>> Is it Firefox that came with the OS (if a Linux version), or obtained
>> from mozilla's web site, or possibly some other source (maybe an
>> application you have installed it)?   Maybe your ISP made some change
>> or installed it?
>>
>> Do your system's event logs reflect when this might have started?
>>
>> I just as well presume aim to fix problem at the source rather than
>> trying to place temporary fixes around an existing problem.
>
> Currently it is Fedora 12. It has been an annoyance for quite a while.
> It generates a windows only occasionally from one of the news sites (
> not sure if it is fox, msnbc, or another). With adblock plus, I can look
> at the ads that are being blocked. I have added plulse360 to my
> blockable list.
>
> On 03/27/2010 09:22 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
>> I've noticed in the past few months that I'm seeing pop-up ads in
>> Firefox 3.0.x. My understanding - and my past experience - has been
>> that Firefox's built-in pop-up blocking has been adequate to stop
>> these and the adblock extension is only needed if you want to
>> eliminate on-page ads.
>>
>> Apparently ad produces have found a way to thwart Firefox's pop-up
>> blocker. What's worse is that on Ubuntu 9.04, if you manually close
>> the pop-up windows, it pretty much always crashes Firefox. (If you
>> close the window responsible for generating the pop-ups, then the
>> pop-ups seem to go away without incident.)
>>
>> I'm seeing these pop-ups most frequently on LinkedIn, and at least one
>> other place that I don't recall. Anyone else seeing them and have you
>> found a remedy?
> I have not had this problem. While I have seen a few firefox crashes,
> other than pulse360, I don't seem to have an issue with popup ads.
>
> On 03/27/2010 10:11 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
>> Use an outboard filtering proxy such as GlimmerBlocker or Adzap.
>>
>>
>
> GlimmerBlocker is specific for Macs. Adzap requires a Squid proxy server. This is a possibility if I were having more problems, but for simply 1 site, either the Dave Kramer hack or possibly blocking the IP address in my firewall.
>
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If, in fact, firefox is the problem,

- possibly try: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

- possibly considering changing browsers - Google Chrome, Konqueror, etc.

As we've all learned, no single operating system is perfect, no single
application does the job.   We use a swiss army knife suite of tools
to get things done.

Hope this helps a bit.

Scott