Configuring the Pop-up Blocker
Now let's configure the Pop-up Blocker. You can open up the Pop-up Blocker by opening the Guard-IE Control Panel and pressing the "Popups" tab as seen below:
Check "Automatically block pop-ups when opening new browser windows" to stop
ALL pop-ups.
Leave the check boxes under "Show a preview of blocked pop-up windows"
un-checked until
you get a good feel for using Guard-IE. Remember that blocked pop-ups are BLOCKED from ever reaching your computer. If you
enable pop-up previews, those images WILL be downloaded and thus take
up some bandwidth.
With the Popup Blocker turned on, Guard-IE will also prohibit
clicking links which open a new browser window. So if you click a link and see the mouse cursor change briefly to
the cursor at right, this tells you that the link tried to open a new
browser window which was prevented.
To overcome this (i.e. allow links clicked on a page to open a new
browser window, we suggest checking "Enable smart pop-up blocker."
You can also hold the CONTROL key down when pressing a link to
allow that link to occur (even if it attempts to open a new browser
window). And you can always right-click a link, and select the "Open in
New Window" option.
Please Note: If you have configured Guard-IE to block pop-ups, and
you have a fully registered copy or are testing Guard-IE within the
trial period it will stop 100% of pop-ups! There are no exceptions.
So if you still see pop-ups, it is likely that you have SpyWare installed
on you computer without your knowledge - SpyWare is often placed during
the download of a popular program (e.g. Morpheus) and it invokes your
browser independently to produce pop-ups! Download one of the many
free SpyWare erasing programs to remove this.