Best free file sharing (P2P) and pop-up blocker programs?

caledesi

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Wed Dec-21-05 06:12 PM
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Best free file sharing (P2P) and pop-up blocker programs?

Like to hear from other DUers what they programs they use and why they like them?

Thanks guys!

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LSK

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Wed Dec-21-05 06:13 PM
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1. emule and firefox

http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1

http://www.mozilla.org

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Crazy Guggenheim

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Wed Dec-21-05 06:21 PM
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3. Foxfire sucks!

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

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LSK

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Thu Dec-22-05 01:51 AM
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12. you are just itching for that flame war, arnt you?

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Crazy Guggenheim

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Thu Dec-22-05 01:52 AM
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13. Hey. It just hasn't been targeted like the way IE has been! Stop picking

on Mr. Gates!

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LSK

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Thu Dec-22-05 01:57 AM
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14. Mr Gates can go cry on Ted Stevens bridge too

I hear its gonna be built really well.

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Crazy Guggenheim

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Wed Dec-21-05 06:17 PM
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2. For the Popup blocker any one of the major brand firewalls has one.

For file sharing I assume you mean on the Internet?

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caledesi

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Wed Dec-21-05 06:27 PM
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5. Yes, I have Ad-Aware, but it's not functioning...don't know why

because it used to be great and I can't figure out what is wrong.

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Crazy Guggenheim

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Wed Dec-21-05 06:28 PM
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6. You might have gotten hit with something then. Try to download

Edited on Wed Dec-21-05 06:29 PM by Crazy Guggenheim

the Ad-Aware updates and see what happens.

On Edit:

Are you talking about their Firewall or the Adware scanner?

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SlavesandBulldozers

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Wed Dec-21-05 06:32 PM
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7. did you get the latest release?

they have a full upgrade now, basically a new version.

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qnr

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Wed Dec-21-05 06:24 PM
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4. various bittorrent clients (mostly for distro ISOs) and NNTP for general

filesharing (for a client, mostly Pan). Firefox does my popup blocking.

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Crazy Guggenheim

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Wed Dec-21-05 06:35 PM
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8. Whoa! Time-out! Are you getting popups? If so? Do you have to be on the

Edited on Wed Dec-21-05 07:26 PM by Crazy Guggenheim

Internet to get them?

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caledesi

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Thu Dec-22-05 01:45 AM
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9. Yes, on the Internet. It's gone crazy. Suddenly, (about 2 weeks)

I have been getting zillions of pop-ups. My Ad-Aware seems to have died.

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Crazy Guggenheim

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Thu Dec-22-05 01:49 AM
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11. Ok. I assume you're using the same computer right now. Also, do you have

access to another computer that can copy to CD/DVD? Can you get to www.pcworld.com and download another copy of Ad-Aware?

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caledesi

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Thu Dec-22-05 05:57 AM
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15. CG - Thank you. I was using Ad-Aware 6 which my tech installed

after he repaired my PC a year ago. I uninstalled it (guess it got corrupted...don't know), then installed Ad-Aware SE, so we will see.

Thanks again.

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radwriter0555

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Thu Dec-22-05 01:48 AM
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10. We love Bearshare.com for file sharing. Idiot proof, use the bitzi ticket

to check out the files before hand.

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ghostsofgiants

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Thu Dec-22-05 09:14 AM
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16. Here's a list of P2P programs...

Edited on Thu Dec-22-05 09:15 AM by primate1

That divides them up based on spyware or lack thereof.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/p2p

You want to take stuff from the clean list.

As for pop-up blockers, get something like Ad-Aware and/or Spybot S&D, use it to clean ytour computer of spyware, then start browsing the internet with Firefox.

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