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Pop Ups - Are They A Good Thing Or Bad Thing?
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By Paul Wilcox
A pop-up is an advertisement that keeps popping up annoyingly on your computer screen while you’re browsing on the Internet. The goal of pop-ups is to get your attention and then send you to vendor websites that sell something or just want to grab your email address.
As the web page is loading a pop-up will appear, usually with the help of javascript. Javascript is a language for programming that is placed in HTML code as a website is built.
There are some pop-ups that can be very useful. You might get a pop-up on a web page when you click on a link. You’ll be asked for some information or it will give you some information. There are some music websites that use pop-ups to play music using a special window for the player. This use for a pop-up is legitimate but there are other pop-up ads that show up without you wanting them.
It’s the javascript that maintains that size of the pop-up window and which elements will be displayed. There are times when the menu or the status bar is hidden from your view. This makes it impossible for you to navigate from the pop-up. The only options you have are to use the “x” to close the box or to click on the ad itself and be directed to the advertiser’s site. Both are annoying options.
There are some pop-ups that are malicious and/or managed very poorly. Javascript will cause several windows to open. When you close one of these windows, more will open in its place. You’ll need to exit your browser to get out of this cycle.
There is a new pop-up that is created with the use of Flash. It can be programmed so that it follows your mouse around or else it floats around on the screen as you scroll up or down.
Pop-ups aren’t just created using Flash and Javascript. Adware can also create pop-ups according to whatever content is on the web page. Adware is software that is supported by ads which are displayed whenever you access the program. There are times, however, when adware is referring to programs that are hidden and will send advertisi!
ng to yo
ur computer. This type of program will look for particular keywords on an Internet web page and then produce ads that are centered around these words.
Because pop-ups are so annoying many Internet browsers will have some type of way to kill them. The latest browser version will usually have these tools integrated into them.
There are also some utilities that you can run to kill a pop-up. These utilities can be automated and many of them are free to use. You’ll want to download one today so that you can surf without pop-ups. That is, unless you like looking at advertising.
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Paul Wilcox writes about internet security and other related topics for the Security Manor website. Get more helpful information about protecting yourself against online threats at http://www.securitymanor.com |
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