[jaedin]

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OK, yep I am new here to the forums here, actually I have used the forums for well over a year now, just never posted. Heres the thing, I work for an online school doing the tech support thing. I have taken on the task of devolping a security website to help our newer techs with disabling features that prevent our students from being to access all the resource they need.
Mainly its firewalls blocking cookies, or popup blockers not allowing reply windows and the such to open. The firewalls come pretty naturally to me (security freak myself), but the popup blockers seems like such an immense world for such small programs. I am not even sure where to begin, which ones are most popular, which ones are most evasive, which ones are more spyware than anything.

What I am looking for is a site or some info to kinda break down this popup world into something I work with. Does that make sense?

Any points in the right direction would be awesome, I have searched about the forums and already found some great stuff. Thank ya much....

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Welcome To TSG................

[Telstar]

Originally Posted by jaedin

What I am looking for is a site or some info to kinda break down this popup world into something I work with.
Any points in the right direction would be awesome, I have searched about the forums and already found some great stuff. Thank ya much....

Hi jaedin and welcome to the TSG Forums.

Well, I can only tell you what finally has worked for me and after trying some
of those Popup Blocking utilities available I found them not really necessary.

I get virtually NO unwanted popups.

Firefox>Tools>Options>Web Features>Block Popup Windows

Internet Explorer6>Tools>Internet Options>Privacy>Popup Blocker

The Google Toolbar for IE additionally enhances
the Popup Blocking ability of Internet Explorer.

Each browser allows you to add exceptions.

Works for me!

But, it sounds as if you may be looking for something along the line
of Parental Control software since you mention...

"...disabling features that prevent our students from being able to
access all the resource they need."

Someone else with more experience in this department might be able to
suggest something in addition to the normal browser Popup blocking I
mentioned.

EDIT: or did I misconstrue what you are looking for to mean you want the
students to have unlimited access and to have "nothing" blocked?

[jaedin]

Pop up blockers tend to block important windows from our site. From reply windows to download prompts...often times the student has no idea what they have on the system as they downloaded something else that came with a popup blocker. Example being: Adobe, when you download the 7.0 reader you are given the option to pick up the yahoo toolbar that includes a popup blocker. The toolbar is downloaded by default and often our student don't check to see that they are downloading more than they want. So basically I am looking for a comprehensive list of common popup blockers and where the options are located so that we may successfully allow our students access to all parts of the site, without removing what they consider 'sercurity'.

I hope that makes more sense....

[jaedin]

Thanks!

[Telstar]

Originally Posted by jaedin

So basically I am looking for a comprehensive list of common popup blockers and where the options are located so that we may successfully allow our students access to all parts of the site, without removing what they consider 'sercurity'.

Well, for Yahoo and Google and most other pop-up blockers, press and hold
the CTRL key while clicking a link to override the blocker.

Otherwise, you need to identify other popup blockers that may be on your
system and that would depend on what you've allowed or has already been
installed of course.
Most will give a sound or warning that they are blocking a popup...could be
a bar across the top of the window or an indicator in the bottom status bar
or even a sound effect.

Related Links:

List of Popup Blockers

Popup Test

How To Disable Popup Blockers

http://www.firingsquad.com/news/news...?searchid=7893

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...upblocker.mspx

Hope this helps!

[mobo]

You could just have em all use Mozilla's Firefox webrowser (link in my sig below) and institute the following changes to disable popups in the program itself.

1. Type about:config into the Firefox location bar.
2. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer.
3. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
4. Set the value to 2.

The possible values are:

* 0: Allow all popups from plugins.
* 1: Allow popups, but limit them to dom.popup_maximum.
* 2: Block popups from plugins.
* 3: Block popups from plugins, even on whitelisted sites.