What computer developers do not go to earn money. Currently, most sites reign on advertising, which continuously pops up while viewing the necessary information. But there is advertising that can harm the computer, so now we will try to figure out how to block the pop-up window.
Imagine that you went to an unverified resource, which is probably located on a free hosting. Before you read the information you need, you need to spend time closing or watching ads.
How to disable popup in Opera browser?
Fortunately, various browser settings allow you to protect yourself from such
obsession. To prevent the pop-up window on the site from appearing in Opera browser, open the "Menu" (the button is located by default in the upper left corner of the window). Next, in the list of tabs we find “Settings”, we hover over this column. We will see all the settings options.
Select "Quick Settings": this is the shortest way to answer the question "How to remove a pop-up window?" We select the pop-up window settings, ask the browser to “block unsolicited windows”. Left-click on the specified line, after which the changes are automatically saved. From now on, working with the Internet will become much safer and easier.
How to block pop-up in Mozilla Firefox browser?
You can disable the display of ad windows in Mozilla Firefox as follows
way. We go to the menu called "Settings", which is located on
the toolbar of the program at the top. Select the tab “Content”, then
put a special checkmark to ask the browser to "block pop-ups." Confirm your actions by clicking the "OK" button.
How to block a pop-up window if you become a victim of a virus?
If you accidentally downloaded a malicious program to your computer and after that pop-up windows carrying ads appear even with the Internet turned off, you can remove them in the following way. Open the "Start" menu, select "Control Panel". We find the tab called “Folder Options”, then double-click on it with the left mouse button.
In the menu that appears, click the “View” tab, in the section named “Files and Folders”
put a check mark next to the "Show hidden" command. Confirm your actions by clicking the Apply button, and then OK. From now on,
hidden folders, even containing a virus, are visible to each computer user.
In order to remove malware, open “My Computer”, on the main drive C, go to the “Documents” folder. Select your own administrator name and open the folder called “Application Data”. In it we find the “CMedia” folder, open it. Inside this folder we find the file “CMedia.dat”. We click on it with the mouse (right-click) and in the context menu that opens, select the command “Open file using notepad”. In the open file we find the line “ADSR = 976” (in this case, instead of 976, the number of impressions of pop-up windows that you have configured on the counter may be). Replace this digit with 0 to get the following: “ADSR = 0”. Let's go back to the “CMedia” folder and run the “uninstal.exe” file, left-click on it twice. Wait for the application to shut down.
How to block popup in Chrome?
Google Chrome browser blocks all pop-ups automatically so that they don’t
interfered with the review of the Internet.
The address bar displays an icon that notifies you of blocking windows. To change the window settings for this site, click on the icon.
Chrome can get sick too
If you can’t block ad windows, save your home page, or set the default search engine, it means that your browser settings are controlled by unwanted software. To resolve this issue, follow our tips or reset your browser settings.
To view a pop-up window blocked by the program, follow the steps below. Click on the special icon on the address bar, a list of all pop-up windows will open. Next, click on the link of the window that you want to allow. So that the windows are always displayed on the desired site, select "Always show."
The site will thus be added to the exclusion list, which you can edit through the "Content Settings" dialog box . In order to allow manual opening of windows on sites, we perform the following steps: open the “Chrome menu” menu, which is located in the browser toolbar; select "Settings"; click "Advanced Settings". Next, go to the "Personal Information" section, where we click on the button called "Content Settings". We are interested in the Pop-ups section, where you need to click Manage Exceptions.
As you can see, dealing with pop-ups is quite simple, regardless of the browser you use. In any case, be careful when clicking on unknown links.