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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: March 19, 2007
- Total Downloads: 47,810
- Downloads last week: 15
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 14 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This free pop-up blocker takes care of its business but omits a few common perks found in similar applications. Hitware Popup Killer Lite's feature set is rather anemic. You can choose to allow pop-ups from certain sites by manually adding their URLs to a whitelist, but you can't do so via a quick hot-key combination. Also, although the app can alert you to blocked ads by playing a sound or flashing in your taskbar, you won't find a log file for viewing a list of eliminated pop-ups. The program tackles just about all standard pop-ups with ease, although it can't put down Flash or banner ads. Still, since this app's performance is mostly good and it doesn't cost anything, we can see how it will be an attractive option to Web surfers who just need a pop-up blocker and nothing else.Publisher's description
From Giant Matrix :Hitware Popup Killer Lite is an intelligent pop-up- and pop-under-ad killer. Running in the system tray, it quietly eliminates all unwanted ads even before they appear and prevents them from stealing bandwidth or locking up your browser. You can choose to be notified via an animated tray icon and/or sound whenever a pop-up window is closed.
The program also can help you get rid of annoying IP-based messenger pop-up ads. These pop-ups abuse the Messenger Service, which is intended to send text messages across a network, using the IP address of the computer. They can appear as a dialog box on your desktop if you have the Messenger Service enabled and are not using a firewall. Hitware Popup Killer Lite will display the current status of the Messenger Service and allows you to enable or disable the service with a simple click. Version 3.1.1 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.6 stars out of 14 votes
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8 out of 27 people found this review helpful
Version: Hitware Popup Killer Lite 3.1.1
"Popup applications are antequated software!"
Pros: A few years ago an effective popup killing application was a useful tool. Now days, any good web browser or toolbar for such come with built in popup blocking capabilities. Leaving these stand alone popup applications, unnecessary, antiquated programs for the majority of web surfers. This one thinks it can replace some firewall program functions which isn't true. It's just my opinion, but this program and other similar applications are a waste of time for the majority of home computer users..
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Version: Hitware Popup Killer Lite 3.1.1
"works great, does the job great"
Pros: once you download it, configure it, its always there in the background, doing what its suppose to do, and no problems, runs all by itself...
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Version: Hitware Popup Killer Lite 3.1.1
Pros: I'm surprised it didn't get more feedback. It blocks the annoying windows pop-ups perfectly. I am very satisfied.
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Version: Hitware Popup Killer Lite 3.1.1
Pros: software began to work as soon as it was installed. Doing a good job.
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3 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Version: Hitware Popup Killer Lite 3.1.1
Pros: nothing
Cons: Not only will it not stop the popups, but it changes your homepage and locks up your computer. This was a waste of my time!!!
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