Kathleen Anderson wants pop-up advertisements gone from the Net. As chair of a Connecticut government committee, Anderson is charged with ensuring state-run Web sites become accessible to people with ...

For many Internet users, surfing the web can resemble a trip through an old-fashioned bazaar – vendors thrusting products in your face in hopes of attracting you to their display. Potential consumers ...

Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its ...

For one software maker, the fight to block overbearing Web advertisements such as pop-ups is shifting to the ad industry's hottest sector: commercial search. InterMute, the maker of anti-pop-up ...

Search was inconclusive. <P>Tried PopUp Killer, didn't seem to do anything even with Smart mode set to about halfway. Pop Up Stopper was working fine but does so because it prevents <I>any</I> new ...

With little advertising - at least not any of the pop-up sort - the company's already sold 3,000 copies of CheckIt 86 at $20 a pop. The software, available only for Internet Explorer, prevents the ...

Boy do you hate those intrusive ads... Never have we at silicon.com been so glad we took the move to ditch pop-up adverts more than 12 months ago. After running a story entitled "Pop-ups 'commercial ...

Hertz Corp. Friday said the Court of First Instance in Cologne issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting Claria Corp. from using its software to place advertising, including "pop-up" and "pop-under" ...

We want to warn you about a scam that you may encounter while browsing the web. A McAfee antivirus pop-up suddenly appears on your computer, claiming your device is infected and your McAfee ...