How to stop pop-up or pop-under Internet ads

Microsoft Internet Explorer users

Users who are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 can be thankful that Microsoft has decided to include a popup blocker in the browser. By default this option should be enabled if you wish to change the settings of how this feature works or want to verify if it is enabled or not you can follow the below steps.

1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Click Tools
3. Click Options
4. Click the Privacy tab
5. At the bottom of the Privacy tab you should have a Pop-up Blocker section. If you wish pop-ups to be blocked check the "Block pop-ups" option. You can also set additional settings such as disabling the sound when a pop-up is blocked or disable the information bar displayed when a pop-up is blocked by clicking the Settings button.

Mozilla Firefox users

If you're running Mozilla Firefox and with to adjust or change how Firefox handles pop-up follow the below steps.

1. Open Mozilla Firefox
2. Click Tools
3. Click Options
4. Click the Web features button on the left hand side of the Options window.
5. By default this feature should be enabled if you wish to disable the feature, uncheck "Block Popup Windows." If you have allowed popups on a site you wish to now block you can also click "Allowed sites" in this window and remove any sites you wish to block any popup on.

Users may also wish to disable any popups from from any browser plug-ins, a tactic for bypassing many popup blockers. To enable this feature in firefox follow the below steps.

1. Open Mozilla Firefox
2. In the URL field type "about:config" and press enter.
3. This should open the Firefox config window.
4. Right-click on a black portion of the window and click "New" and then "Integer"
5. For the preference name type "privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins" and click Ok.
6. For the value type "2"

Finally, we also suggest you locate the "privacy.popups.firstTime" option also in the about:config screen and change the value of this setting to "false"