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There is an increasing problem posed by adware, spyware and pop-ups. Increasingly browsers have built in protection, which is an excellent idea, but isn't specialised to the task. Stopzilla is specifically designed to prevent programs from hijacking your computer and adding nasty things to your registry; stopping spyware is its purpose rather than an after thought. Stopzilla is a comined packag to prevent adware. Unlike ad removal software such as Ad-Aware and the Microsoft Spyware Removal Tool, Stopzilla works before the infection occurs. If a website or program fits the profile or database of rogue software its actions are restricted to render it harmless.
Stopzilla has to features which particularly impressed me. The first is that unlike free popup blockers (think Google Toolbar, Mozilla) miss some ad pop-ups and also misidentify many innocuous ones. In contrast Stopzilla killed all of them. Also Stopzilla has intelligence to distniguish between ok pop-ups (eg MSN) and dangerous ones, allowing them without you having to manually disable the pop-up blocker.
The setup is simple. Options can be accessed by right clicking the icon in the system tray. From here you can customise your black list, cookies and history.