POW destructor

[Ove]

ARRRRRGGHHH, just had that pop-up again. You know the one that grabs POW and destroys it. It is under the disguise of a "windows washer" that is a program that can delete your tracks. OK, one more pop-up you think and add it to POW. NO sir

The moment you add it to POW it shuts down all your browser windows and the only way out is to remove all your hard collected URL's from POW and start again on a fresh.

Does anybody know which compagny makes that pop-up?? I am not a cracker or something like that but i have an urgent desire to flood their E-Mail adress with umpteen millions of Spam E Mails.
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[evildave]

I don't care. Mozilla eats unwanted pop-ups, and it doesn't need an external kludge to do it.

[Ove]

Yep, unfortunately for me our IT support department has made it a Cardinal Sin to use anything but Internet Explorer. But i agree, Mozilla does the trick.;)

[Skeptoid]

Ove, I know the one. POW closes all open windows except that pop-up. :rolleyes: The new Google toolbar has a pop-up blocker. Some folks say it works well.

[a_unique_person]

OK, I admit ignorance. What is POW. I just use the google toolbar facility.

[ShowMe]

Originally posted by evildave
I don't care. Mozilla eats unwanted pop-ups, and it doesn't need an external kludge to do it.

Yes, we know you use Mozilla, and that it's the end-all and be-all of browsers.

But there are some folks that have to use IE; as a techie I may not like it, but there's no way around it.

Getting an answer of "Don't use IE" or "I don't care" isn't really useful in a "help" forum. Some folks don't have a choice.


OK, I admit ignorance. What is POW. I just use the google toolbar facility.

It's a pop-up stopper, one of the more popular ones. One of the features is clicking on a pop-up to add its URL to your list, so you never again see that pop-up. The advantage is that you don't have to "allow" pop ups that you actually want to see; you're removing pop-ups you don't care to see.

Ove,

Not certain of the program you're referring to but I'll ask around. It sounds insideous.

[thrombus29]

I have forgotten the name of the pop-up, but if you have the new Spybot-search and destroy installed and have it set to block, than that is one of the sites that gets blocked.

[evildave]

Originally posted by ShowMe
Yes, we know you use Mozilla, and that it's the end-all and be-all of browsers.

But there are some folks that have to use IE; as a techie I may not like it, but there's no way around it.

Getting an answer of "Don't use IE" or "I don't care" isn't really useful in a "help" forum. Some folks don't have a choice.


Actually, it's a "Help" topic in a forum about general computer stuff. People only use it to beg for help more often than not. And it always boils down to some broken junk in IE.

Opera is better than Mozilla. I just use Mozilla because it's good enough for me, and anybody can review the source code.

That said, it's curious that a corporate environment that allows ONLY IE to be used would also allow popup blockers and such stuff to be installed, as these will have adverse effects on web sites more noticable than simply using a different browser.

Usually the ones who are that strict are finicky about ANY software that gets installed on their computers. If POW (or whatever) is supported, call your corporate "Help Desk", and they will take care of their officially supported software. So leave the message with them.

[crapmike]

hey ove, are you talking about this POW! ???

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/pow.htm

i have the same problems with that popup program

[Ove]

I have forgotten the name of the pop-up, but if you have the new Spybot-search and destroy installed and have it set to block, than that is one of the sites that gets blocked.

Thank you, i had not thought of that but off course.;)

That said, it's curious that a corporate environment that allows ONLY IE to be used would also allow popup blockers and such stuff to be installed, as these will have adverse effects on web sites more noticable than simply using a different browser.

They would probably hang me at dawn if they knew but POW is not as visible as another browser and i got one of the IT people interested last time he saw it.:D Our IT departement has even disabled the controls for wallpaper, screensavers etc. They try to regulate everything we do. Our former "chief of IT" said in a interwiew that people "shouldn't tamper with my pc's". It is pretty difficult to discuss reason with a bloke that believe he own's oll the compagny's pc's.:hit:

hey ove, are you talking about this POW! ???

Precisely.;) It works wonderful most of the time but this pop-up can eradicate it.

Usually the ones who are that strict are finicky about ANY software that gets installed on their computers. If POW (or whatever) is supported, call your corporate "Help Desk", and they will take care of their officially supported software. So leave the message with them.

POW is not supported and anyhow i doubt if they would care. They have even refused to allow us to use SPAM-filters.

[ShowMe]

Originally posted by evildave


Actually, it's a "Help" topic in a forum about general computer stuff. People only use it to beg for help more often than not. And it always boils down to some broken junk in IE.


True. But when someone is asking for assistance for a particular product, telling them not to use that product is pretty useless.

I agree wholeheartedly that IE is broken, as is a lot of MS code. Ever been forced into using IIS? Scary stuff.

Opera is better than Mozilla. I just use Mozilla because it's good enough for me, and anybody can review the source code.

IE is so ingrained into the Windows operating system, and Windows is so prevelant, that it is often difficult to get completely away from it. Especially if your assiting people over a distance.

That, and an awful lot of software out there integrates with IE but not with other browsers. And telling a customer that they really need to drop that $25,000 piece of software so they can get away from Ie isn't practical. It may be a great deal of fun, but it isn't practical.


That said, it's curious that a corporate environment that allows ONLY IE to be used would also allow popup blockers and such stuff to be installed, as these will have adverse effects on web sites more noticable than simply using a different browser.


Oh, heavens, that's not "curious" at all. That's not even a bit unusual. Most IT departments are incredibly understaffed and overworked so they try and go with a defualt setting as much as possible. If you sneak a program on your system & it doesn't break anything they're probably not going to care.

Of course, the first time you have trouble with it the machine is going to get re-imaged with the orginal image and all your stuff goes poof.

Usually the ones who are that strict are finicky about ANY software that gets installed on their computers.

See above.

[Blarg]

The title of the "Windows Washer" ad starts with ***.
* is the default wild card character.
My hypothesis is that this tricks POW into closing anything, since the first character of all titles and url's will match *. I forget the full title, just remove the one that starts and ends with ***. There is no need to yank all of the stored URLs/titles. We should contact AnalogX about this, it could probably be easily fixed.

A similar thread:
http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=21937

[Ove]

My hypothesis is that this tricks POW into closing anything, since the first character of all titles and url's will match *. I forget the full title, just remove the one that starts and ends with ***. There is no need to yank all of the stored URLs/titles. We should contact AnalogX about this, it could probably be easily fixed.

Sounds plausible, will give it a try. Has anybody else tried this strategy?

[Correa Neto]

Originally posted by Ove

... Our IT departement has even disabled the controls for wallpaper, screensavers etc. They try to regulate everything we do. Our former "chief of IT" said in a interwiew that people "shouldn't tamper with my pc's". It is pretty difficult to discuss reason with a bloke that believe he own's oll the compagny's pc's.:hit: ...
POW is not supported and anyhow i doubt if they would care. They have even refused to allow us to use SPAM-filters.

Just like here... I still have access to these features because the PC I use was not upgraded to the company´s standards due to my particular software needs. But in a few weeks there will be no escape. Will have to call tech support even to do a simple defrag:mad: