- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: October 28, 2003
- Total Downloads: 134,446
- Downloads last week: 100
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 30 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This program blocks annoying pop-up windows with a splash. Stop-the-Pop-Up Lite installs so quickly that you won't even notice it happening. Once you launch the freeware, you face a tiny number of choices. All you can do is disable the freeware, set it to launch automatically at Windows start-up, and enable the aggressive mode. The button marked Advanced Settings leads only to a nag screen that says that those features do not exist in the Lite version. In general, though, the program works well. When a pop-up emerges, the program immediately destroys it. The program excels even at counteracting file-sharing networks such as Kazaa and Morpheus. Home users could do much worse than the serviceable Stop-the-Pop-Up Lite.Publisher's description
From Sureshot :Stop-the-Pop-Up Lite is a free pop-up blocker preventing all annoying pop-up windows from appearing as you surf the Web. The pop-up stopper has full support for both pop-up and pop-under ads and will kill them even before they appear on the screen. Each time a pop-up is closed you will hear a cute sound effect. To allow pop-up windows, you can temporarily disable the pop-up killer by holding Control, Shift, or 'a'. Another Stop-the-Pop-Up Lite feature is its ability to kill all pop-ups from file-sharing programs as well as from the spyware and adware that is bundled with these peer-to-peer programs. Stop-the-Pop-Up Lite supports Kazaa, Kazaa Lite, Morpheus, Grokster, iMesh, Xolox, and Direct Connect.
Stop-the-Pop-Up Lite also will kill the new breed of pop-ups called Messenger Service spam. Messenger Service pop-ups can spam you even when your browser is closed. Stop-the-Pop-Up Lite recognizes and kills hostile ActiveX controls from companies known to develop spyware or adware.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 30 votes
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Stop-the-Pop-Up Lite 2.56
Cons: The first, it brings adwares.
The second, it sucks and downs very frequently.
The third, it cannot distinguish the pop-ups caused by click and the automatic ones.
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Version: Stop-the-Pop-Up Lite 2.56
"Works Perfectly, No Toolbar, No Bugs."
Pros: I've heard the adware accusations and I have to say, I cleaned my system thoroughly before installing. After installing, there was nothing.
This program is fantastic. It's no frills, no search bar, no toolbar clogging up IE... Just a nice little unassuming icon in your taskbar. It does exactly what it says.
Cons: ...I forget (a lot...) to hold the shift key to open pages. And that the Control key allows for java-pop up's...
But that's me being stupid, not the program.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Stop-the-Pop-Up Lite 2.56
"works but installs tracking cookies"
Summary: Another user pointed out that if you run ad aware (a spyware eliminating program) before and after installing this pop-up program, you will find spyware on your computer. It does in fact install tracking cookies, but it does work.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Stop-the-Pop-Up Lite 2.56
Summary: Stop the pop up is the most amazing program I`ve ever used to eliminate pop-ups. We`ve all had those 'unwanted' porno pop ups and what not, I`ve not seen one for months with this program. For some of the other people who left comments about it being... read more >>
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Version: Stop-the-Pop-Up Lite 2.56
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