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Several sites pop up smaller windows with advertising. The opop up blocker

does not stop these smaller ad windows. How do I stop them?

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"Larry" wrote in message

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> Several sites pop up smaller windows with advertising. The opop up blocker

> does not stop these smaller ad windows. How do I stop them?

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> Larry



You don't.



They LOOK like a pop up to you, but the designer that wrote the page made

them not conform to the rules that define them as a pop up sepecifically to

avoid the blocker. Welcome to a world where standards can be ignored.
 
Hi Larry,



Add those sites to your Restricted Sites zone. This will disable Active

Scripting by default and some other functions on those sites may not work.



A side note.. ensure you have the Default Security Zone settings for all

Zones as Popup blocking is also determined by the zone that the site loads

in.



Tools>Internet Options - Security tab, click "Reset all zones to default"



Regards.



"Larry" wrote in message

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> Several sites pop up smaller windows with advertising. The opop up blocker

> does not stop these smaller ad windows. How do I stop them?

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> Larry
 
And just check also that those sites are not in your IE Popup blocker white

list.



Tools>Popup blocker>Popup Blocker Settings



If you have other Popup blockers installed (Google toolbar), they also have

white lists. Usually I turn off other popup blockers and only use the

built-in IE popup blocker.



Regards.



"Larry" wrote in message

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> Several sites pop up smaller windows with advertising. The opop up blocker

> does not stop these smaller ad windows. How do I stop them?

> --

> Larry
 
Larry wrote:



> Several sites pop up smaller windows with advertising. The opop up blocker

> does not stop these smaller ad windows. How do I stop them?



Those aren't popups. That content is part of the web page so it is not a

popup. CSS scripting is used to present content within the web page with

the ad content. It is you that interprets the display as a separate dialog

or window but that's not what is actually happening.



The only way to disable those pseudo-popups is to disable scripting;

however, permanently disabling scripting will result in the loss of much

functionality at a vast number of web sites. You probably don't want to

disable scripting in IE just because of a few rude sites. You could add the

rude sites to the Restricted Sites list which disables scripting for their

web pages. However, you might find that the rude site becomes unusable when

you disable scripting there. They probably use scripting for more than just

their fake popup content.
 
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