Popup Blocker Software Reviews and Downloads

Popup Ad Stopper

You will be running your web browser popup-ad free in a few minutes from now with this full featured popup ad stopper program. Popup Ad Stopper is a free to try before you buy pop up blocker.

Ad Muncher

Ad Muncher removes adverts, popups and general browsing annoyances from all popular browsers as well as most banner displaying and popup generating programs like ICQ, Morpheus, Kazaa, Grokster, Opera, iMesh, Bearshare, LimeWire, etc.

Adblock Plus for Firefox

Adblock Plus picks up where Adblock left off. It is a content filtering plug-in for the Firefox browser. It is both more robust and more precise than the built-in image blocker. It allows the user to specify filters, which remove unwanted content based on the source-address. Every time a webpage loads, it will intercept and disable the elements matching your filters.

Pop-Up Sentry!

Pop-Up Sentry! is an easy to use and very effective popup and advertising blocker, that is able to eliminate just about any type of advertising, including Flash, DHTML, floating ads and other techniques. We tested it at www.popuptest.com and it eliminated 100% of the simple and advanced popup ads. In addition, the program can prevent Messenger ads, Spyware ads and prevent your homepage from being changed by hi-jacker applications. You can configure Pop-Up Sentry! to block all supported ad types, or just the ones that you find most annoying. It also allows you to exclude specific sites from blocking. In addition to the ad blocking, the program also includes cookie management and cleaning as well as History cleaning of browsing and computer tracks.

STOPzilla Anti-Spyware

STOPzilla guards you against unwanted pop-up windows and adware installations. It can block almost all common pop-up types in Internet Explorer, and includes options to exclude sites, blacklist sites and more. The real-time (memory) adware protection monitors your system, intercepts any adware installations that it detects and alerts you about the issue. Additional features include integrated Cookie and History cleaning, as well as homepage protection, HOSTS file protection and blocking of Windows Messenger popups. STOPzilla! comes with a very user-friendly interface and is easy-to-use.

Super Ad Blocker

Super Ad Blocker can block just about any type of advertising, including, but not limited to popup ads, fly-in, slide-in, flash, rich media, pop-unders, messenger ads, and more. We have tested it with various ads as well as on popuptest.com and it was indeed the first product we have seen to block all the ads we tested. Blocked ad images in web pages are marked with placeholders and can easily be turned on with a single click. In addition, the program offers adware/spyware blocking, deletion of common internet tracks, as well as cookie management and a statistical overview (with graphs) of blocked ads. The optional Whitelist allows you to fully or partially exclude selected site from blocking, and you can also exclude secure server pages (https) from blocking. Super Ad Blocker runs in the system tray or as Internet Explorer toolbar. A very capable ad blocker that truly lives up to his name. The additional privacy cleaning features make it a excellent deal.

KaBoom! Popup Blocker

This program blocks all Internet Explorer and messenger service pop-up ads on your PC. Includes new Intelli-Click™ technology that intelligently allows the right pop-up to appear when you click on a link or icon.

AdsCleaner

AdsCleaner is an Internet Explorer add-on, that offers several very useful new features, along with ad and popup blocking. Unlike the name may indicate, AdsCleaner is actually much more than that and offers some excellent navigational tool in addition to the ad blocking. It automatically keeps track of the web pages you have visited and makes a short info popup available whenever you visit a site or hover your mouse over a link that you have previously visited. You can add a personal comment and assign a rating, which will be displayed with a small screenshot of the site and additional information. In addition, you can clear all tracks of your online activities, translate web page, read web pages aloud, management opened IE, use URL aliases, save your browsing session and more.

AboutBuster

AboutBuster removes the HomeSearch Assistant parasite (CWS.HomeSearch, CWS.SeDLL, CWS.MfPlay) that changes your browser home page to something like res:///random and also delivers popup ads to your computer. Just unzip and run the program and follow the instructions.

Pop Up Blocker Pro

Pop up Blocker Pro Rich-Media Ads Edition - increases browsing speeds by up to 300 percent. It reduces the amount of incoming traffic and a web page loading time by blocking the most annoying Internet ads. The pop-up blocker has 4 types of pop-ups blocking: 100% pop-ups blocking, Pop-ups Block list, Pop-ups Block list with keywords, Limit windows opened. This is one program packed with advanced Privacy Protection Technologies (Prevent your home page from being reset, Go to URL, Proxy settings, Sound effect on close pop-ups, Disable auto suggest, Block messenger spam pop-ups and much more). And that's not All... Pop up Blocker Pro Rich-Media Ads Edition is a state-of-the-art Internet privacy software that allows for private Web browsing. With Pop up Blocker Pro Rich-Media Ads Edition you can surf the Web with complete peace-of-mind, knowing that Pop up Blocker Pro Rich-Media Ads Edition protects you from unwanted data becoming permanently hidden in your PC, without the possibility to recover it. Pop up Blocker Pro (Rich-Media Ads Edition) has four types of pop-up blocking: 100 percent pop-up blocking, a block list, a block list with keywords, and a limit on the number of open windows. Pop up Blocker Pro (Rich-Media Ads Edition) also blocks Flash Ads, Background sounds, Inline videos, JAVA Applets and Animated gif files. Pop up Blocker Pro Rich-Media Ads Edition is packed with advanced privacy-protection technologies, which prevent your home page from being reset, protect your proxy settings, provide a sound effect upon closing pop-ups, disable auto suggesting, and block messenger-spam pop-up ads. Pop up Blocker Pro Rich-Media Ads Edition is a security software that allows you to block popups. When the program is initiated, it automatically starts blocking popup windows. To prevent the program from closing popup windows, either click UnBlock button or choose Popup manager -> UnBlock in the menu. You can choose which windows should be closed using block list option. Pop up Blocker Pro (Rich-Media Ads Edition) can also erase any personal information stored on your computer. If you click Erase button, it will ask you if you want to do this operation. It erases browser's cache, cookies and history by default. You can change items you wish to erase by clicking on Options button and then choosing Eraser tab. Unlike other programs Pop up Blocker Pro (Rich-Media Ads Edition) not only erases cookies, history and other personal information, it also erases hidden index.dat files, even without restart of your operating system!

PopUpCop

PopUpCop blocks popups and a variety of other annoyances that can degrade the quality of your daily web surfing experience. The program tightly integrates into the internet explorer toolbar and becomes part of your browser. Among the features are cookie blocking, script blocking, blocking of window resizing, applet blocking, flash blocking and a lot more. PopUpCop offers different levels of blocking that you can customize to your need. The levels can be quickly changed from the IE toolbar, using a simple slider to change between them. In addition, the program allows you to quickly clean your browser cache, view source for frames and a handy indicator light that shows you if any items were blocked on the current page - if they were, you can click it and review them.

Popup Assassin Pro

This pop-up blocker runs in the background. You only know if a window has been closed if you choose to activate the sound notification.

12Ghosts StopMessengerAds

This program stops the Windows Messenger Service to get rid of popup ads. You may also restart the Messenger service if necessary. In Windows 95, 98 and ME the program WinPopup can also be stopped.

12Ghosts Popup-Killer

This software blocks pop-up windows opened by Internet Explorer, including those opened automatically by a script and links that open a new window. It also features a boss-key for any application. A history cleaner for Internet Explorer is included that removes history, cookies, and temporary cached files, as well as Windows history lists and temporary files.

Stop My Popups

Stop My Popups is an exciting program software that makes your Web surfing enjoyable again! It automatically kills all popups, before they get a chance to appear. It even blocks the gray Messenger ads that most popup blockers ignore. Stop My Popups runs quietly in the background, protecting your children and your PC from Web advertisements, porn windows you can't close, and virus downloads.

NoAds

This program stops Internet pop-up ads from getting in the way of your Web surfing. It is fully configurable, so you can specify which ads you want to automatically destroy.

Popup Free

Popup Free is a popup tool to get rid of annoying browser popup windows and enhance your web surf experience. Kill unexpected popup windows and protect your privacy. Popup Free is simple to use and offers an additional White list, that allows you to exclude certain pop-ups from being "killed". In addition, you can also choose to turn off banner ads. Works with IE 4.0 or above.

AdIEFiltr

AdIEFiltr allows you to disable pop-up windows and advertising banners in Internet Explorer. In addition, the program allows you to completely block access to certain sites that you keep on a black list or you can also limit browser use to only a list of specified sites - for example, limit internet use for employees to a few sites that you consider work related, or only let your kids surf the sites that you specify etc. Both, the ad blocking and access restrictions can be run on a schedule based on the time of day. AdIEFiltr also enables you to password protect Internet explorer, so it can only be used if the correct password is entered upon start.

IENavigator

IENavigator is a toolbar add-on for Internet Explorer that lets you load multiple pages with a single click, translate them into various languages and also listen to them, using the text-to-speech feature. In addition, you can manage open IE windows, save and load lists of web pages, clean your Internet tracks and even create aliases for your favorite web pages, which allows you to access them by typing a keyword of your choice, rather than the URL (e.g type `news` to access your favorite news site). IENavigator also comes with a built-in popup killer and an option to turn images on or off.

EndTask Pro

Detect potential spyware by monitoring its behavior and block pop-up ads. EndTask Pro includes an advanced task manager, a new system for blocking pop-up ads, and a system/Internet performance monitor. The task manager helps you detect and remove potential spyware by monitoring their behavior in real time. It evaluates how safe each process is and lets you quarantine malicious ones. To spot unknown pests, EndTask Pro enables you to track system, disk, Registry, and network activities of a process. The pop-up blocker hides pop-ups instead of closing them. You're given information when a pop-up tries to launch, and you decide which ones to show, thus you won't lose the pop-ups you want. It's invisible to sites that try to detect and foil blockers. Its design isn't based on a specific browser, so it will work on most computers. The program logs information about your Internet connection history. It includes a taskbar that displays vital information, such as connection speed and CPU and memory usage. It will remind you if you forget any media on shutdown. It also includes a smart health reminder.

BulletProof Ad-Free

Removes advertisements, popups and general browsing annoyances from all popular browsers and Web-utilizing programs as well as most banner displaying and popup generating programs.

EndTask Free

Block pop-ups without losing the ones you want using the EndTask family. You're given information when a pop-up tries to launch, and you decide which ones to show. It is invisible to sites that try to detect and foil blockers. Its design isn't based on a specific browser, so it will work on most computers. It also blocks adware pop-ups and Windows Messenger spam.

Smasher

Smasher is an easy to use program that offers to stop pop-up ads, floating ads, Flash ads, remove cookies as you browse and also removes web bugs. It also offers a unique "Freeze Cookies" option that prevents websites from adding more cookies or changing cookies you have allowed. In addition, Smasher allows you to protect Internet Explorer or Windows Explorer with your existing network/windows password to prevent unauthorized access. The CleanPC feature can clean up all internet traces, including cache, typed URLs and more every time you close Internet Explorer. Smasher also includes a "Stealth Cookies" option which hides the cookies a site created until you visit the site again, aned a "Download Protect" option, that requires a password to download files.

PopupDummy!

PopupDummy! blocks popup ads automatically in Internet Explorer, before you even see them. In addition, it also offers the ability to manually block any popup ads on your desktop coming from adware programs. Additional features include optional Flash blocking, a white-list to exclude windows from being closed, sound effects, one-key bypass, window title filters, normalize option and more. PopupDummy! does not require any configuration and will start killing popups right away. It can also list al cookies and allows you to delete them.

Active Scripting Fast Disable

This program allows you to enable and disable Active Scripting. It can also close all Internet Explorer windows, check the state of Active Scripting in four different zones, reload all Internet Explorer windows and toggle the picture display within Outlook and Internet Explorer.

Winguard Popup Remover

Block all Web-based and spyware-generated pop-ups with this software, compatible with Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, America Online, Netscape and Opera. It renders ad-ware useless, cutting off a major artery of revenue for the advertisers.

Pop-Up Stopper Pro

This program blocks, or quickly closes, pop-up and pop-under ads in all browsers, including AOL, MSN, Netscape, Internet Explorer, YahooSBC, WMConnect, Opera and others. It can be set to update itself. It can also play a sound when a pop-up is blocked. A privacy report is provided to review tracking files such as cookies and history files.

SafeSurfer Popup Ad Killer

Speed up surfing and save system memory by getting rid of advertisements like popup windows, Flash ads and floating movie ads. SafeSurfer is also a privacy defender that erases any unnecessary tracks like cookies, Internet history and cache files in you PC. It can recover hijacked IE and system configs.

PopGun

This program recognizes and blocks pop-up ads.

Safe Surfer

This program blocks pop-up windows and allows you to control the content of the sites you visit to ensure confidential Web surfing. You can control the pop-up blocking by banning pop-ups from some sites and allowing them from others. The program ensures your privacy by cleaning up cookies, Web address entered and temporary files with graphics and copies of sites visited. You can also keep children from unwanted sites by blocking them from sites with certain words - a list of keywords you create.

Pop-Up No-No!

This program blocks pop-up ads, pop-under ads, multimedia Flash ads, messenger service ads, background sounds and GIF animations. The program supports Internet hotkey quick searches, and you can run statistics information. There are multi-user support functions and pop-up reporting capabilities as well.

AdSubtract

This program blocks popups and pop-unders. Intelligent filtering allows wanted popups to open. Banner ads of all sizes vanish. Multimedia ads get stopped. Search Sanity blocks paid search ads, giving you relevant search results. Contextual text ads can be disabled. Windows Messenger popup spam gets stopped. Web Cloaking makes almost any undesirable Web image disappear. Animations can be frozen and Web sounds can silenced.

ViewShield

This software is an ad and pop-up blocker, and privacy and security manager with four modes. You can skip ads or load them later with one cursor move. Block pop ups, or make them automatically disappear with the parent site. Be anonymous or allow automatic logins.

ZeroAds

This ad blocker stops all Internet ads, pop-ups and bad cookies from ever reaching your computer. Unlike other ad blockers, it blocks ads from spyware installed on your computer. Web sites are stripped of all clutter as well.

Pop-Up Monster 2004: Mean & Green

This program blocks gray pop-up windows filled with advertisements and Internet Explorer pop-up ads.

wordIQ Toolbar

This toolbar automatically blocks unwanted pop-up ads and deletes your Web surfing history. In addition, wordIQ can also help you search the Web directly from your wordIQ browser toolbar. Some of wordIQ's functions include a pop-up killer to stop pop-up windows, history killer to wipe your browsing history, a spam assassin to block unwanted spam e-mail and integrated Web search to search the Internet.

IEWatcher

This pop-up killer provides protection against pop-up ads and forbidden sites. You can optionally show/hide Flash and GIF files and log and download Flash files. The program also offers an IE cache and cookie cleaning utility and an IE browse log.

AdAshman

This program directly analyzes network IP traffic and Web page source codes, filtering out ad information. It blocks pop-ups, ActiveX and Java controls, and Flash ads.

FilterGate

Use this program for a browsing experience free of pop-ups, banners, privacy invasions and other unwanted content. It uses four different filters to protect your privacy and give you more control over your Internet activity.

AntiTracer

This program will let you browse the Web without popup ads. AntiTracer allows you to block all popup windows, or block by fixed size and still allow ones from selected sites. It securely erases your Internet traces, computer activities, history and other junk on your computer.

Zero Popup

This software is an anti-pop-up tool that kills pop-up windows automatically using artificial intelligent and intelligent agent technologies. It works as an add-in for IE and automatically starts when you launch your browser.

MessengerShield

This program allows you to block spam in message boxes.

AdShield

This software is a powerful ad blocker and pop-up stopper that integrates seamlessly with Internet Explorer. It ships with a powerful block list that prevents thousands of Web ads and can be customized to suit your needs. It also improves browser preformance using its adanced caching features and preventing downloads of ads.

Web Window Killer

In most cases, the captions of the advertising pop-ups are the same, so this tool automatically closes any window with a caption that matches any entry from a customizable list.

IP Messenger Spam Blocker

This program provides one-click protection against IP messenger pop-up ads.

ABF Internet Explorer Tools

ABF Internet Explorer Tools provides a set of useful plug-ins that integrate into Internet Explorer. They include page browser, magnifier bar, an option to force a page refresh and to download all images on a page. ABF Internet Explorer Tools also integrates a popup killer with optional white list. The tool makes a handy addition for IE power users.

Ultimate Popup Blocker & System Clean

This program allows users to block all pop-up and pop-under windows, disable message pop-ups, scan for and remove spyware and adware, clean and remove Internet files, and optimize system performance. It also features a custom pop-up list for individual applications.

Hitware Popup Killer Lite

This pop-up killer eliminates unwanted pop-up and pop-under ads before they appear.

PopupMafia

This pop-up blocker integrates with Internet Explorer to stop pop-ups from adware programs, messenger services and ActiveX downloads.

PopSwat

This program suppresses advertisement pop-ups when you browse with Microsoft Internet Explorer. It automatically distinguishes between pop-ups necessary pop-ups and those generated by advertisers. The advanced features of the program allow users to block messenger service ads and manage pop-ups from different ad servers.

PopStopXP-Free

This software is a free pop-up blocker. It supports hotkeys and offers status counters. It also has an "always on top" function.

Hitware Companion

This privacy software provides a pop-up blocker, tracks eraser and windows hotkey features. It eliminates all unwanted pop-up and pop-under ads even before they appear. It also helps protect your privacy by totally erasing your browser, windows and applications traces from your computer.

Anti-Popup Pro

This pop-up blocker enables you to browse Web pages without disturbance of pop-up ads. Its intelligent anti-pop-up engine can automatically disable ad windows without killing any useful Web content. You can define your own kill list and permit list by adding records. It can kill flash ads, and also can manage the messenger service. The software is also skinnable.

Primedius Free Firewall & Messenger PopUp Killer

This program kills messenger pop-ups. The firewall prevents intrusion, spyware and snooping.

Popup and Privacy Defender

This program is designed to help Internet users get rid of annoying pop-up windows while surfing the 'Net using Internet Explorer. Unlike other similar programs, this program does not close all pop-up windows, some of which may be important for site's navigation, but gives you control of which windows you want to be closed. The program can clean up your PC of Internet tracking data as well. It also erases cookies, history and other personal information that is stored in your browser.

Popup Remover

Removes popup windows that occur while surfing the Internet. You can add only the popups you want to remove by using the hotkey combination or selecting it from a list.

Popup Buster +

This program prevents pop-ups and pop-unders from loading on your computer while you are browsing the Internet. It identifies pop-ups before they load, saving you bandwidth, hassle and desktop space. It is also useful on computers used by children to prevent the appearance of unsolicited, unsavory advertising.

Zero Ad

This pop-up killer stops Flash banners and includes an intelligent ad filter that allows informational pop-ups. It supports all popular Internet browsers and includes sounds for notification. It provides a hotkey to enable or disable pop-ups temporarily, and there are three action levels.

Etcetera Popup Killer

This program controls pop-up windows and searches the Web from your browser bar. It is configured with 100 popular Web sites, and you can add new sites with wizards.

TrueBlock

This program blocks pop-up ads as you surf the Internet.