Pop-up ads constantly warning you that “your system is infected with a virus or malware”—and that their service will save you. A pop-up ad like this can seem scary. Resist clicking.

Pop-up ads constantly warning you that “your system is infected with a virus or malware”—and that their service will save you. A pop-up ad like this can seem scary. Resist clicking.

“What the pop-up-ad-killing software does is tell your browser to ignore those instructions. The downside is that pop-ups sometimes do good things. When you’re at a brokerage website, ...

Earthlink has an advertising campaign touting their pop-up blocking software and several companies, including AOL, have announced they are phasing out ...

Pop-up ads can interrupt, slow or even ruin a Web surfer's experience, but these annoying products of the online ad slump can be eliminated using a number of methods -- including free, third-party ...

Pop-Up Ads Downright Annoying. By Leslie Walker. April 4, 2001 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Like many Internet fads, this one arrived as an instant message.

AOL Time Warner has released a version of its Netscape browser that lets Web surfers suppress pop-up ads, a further sign of declining fortunes for a widely hated marketing format. The new pop-up ...

Startups Mobile Posse and Acuity Mobile are pushing technology that can deliver pop-up ads to a mobile phone's idle screen any time Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, and other online giants have all ...

The creator of the first pop-up advertisement, Ethan Zuckerman, advises us to build a better web. Ethan Zuckerman never meant to turn the World Wide Web into an advertising-rampant fiasco. After ...

Ever been surfing online using your mobile phone and then you're interrupted by a pop-up ad? Experts tell us clicking on some might actually be risky. You're just surfing along on your phone and ...

Rubin came late to pop-ups. “I never had a pop-up book as a child,” she told me. “I bought two of them for my sons, the oldest of whom is 50.” ...

“Pop-up ads are probably the only form of advertising that has spawned a whole industry designed to help you get them off your screen,” says David Croson, ...