Pop-Up Sentry Blocking Technologies Pop-Up Sentry is a next generation product that integrates several critical blocking technologies into a single integrated solution. Pop-Up Sentry is designed to block tomorrow's ads today! POPUP Blocker Pop-Up Sentry is designed to block Pop-Ups, Pop-Unders, Flash, Rich Media, Fly-In, Fly-Over, Desktop Messenger Ads and more! Our Pop-Up blocking blocks the pop-ups before you see them, and before they load or have the potential of infecting your system with spyware or adware. Blocking pop-ups saves bandwidth and helps protect you from "phishing" ads, which may steal logins and passwords, and other types of misleading or dangerous pop-ups. Pop-Ups are now being used by some advertisers to install spyware, adware, trojans and other harmful software products. They often advertise product that will "speed up your computer" or "optimize your memory". While these appear to be products that would help a user and make the computing experience more enjoyable, they often install software designed to serve ads collect personal information and result in the slow down your computer. These products also install other product, and can render a computer virtually unusable. SPYWARE and ADWARE Blocker and Remover Pop-Up Sentry blocks and removes over 1500 Spyware and Adware components. The spyware and adware blocking works in real-time so you do not need to scan your computer - you are always protected. Spyware that is active is immediately terminated and new spyware applications are prevented from running. Terminating running spyware and adware applications is often the only way to stabilize your system to remove dangerous spyware and regain control of your computer. Pop-Up Sentry terminates running spyware and adware applications immediately and does not let new ones run. Pop-Up Sentry includes SuperAntiSpyware which allows you to scan and remove harmful items located on your computer. Spyware comes in many forms. Spyware can be an application installed on your computer that monitors your surfing habits, and serves pop-up ads relevant to items you have searched for, or sites you have visited. Spyware can be an application that attaches itself to your browser and intercepts your passwords or other personal information. Spyware applications often times will send this captured information back to a central server operated by an advertising company, or the company that created the spyware. There is no way for you to know what happens to this information once it leaves your computer. BANNER Blocker Pop-Up Sentry blocks annoying advertising banners that appear inside web-pages. The banner blocking can be easily enabled and disabled, and you may select to allow or block individual images and ads. You have the option of viewing the blocked ads and images by simply clicking the mouse to reveal the blocked content. Ad banners are another form of advertising that can be used to advertise products to help or protect you, but end up installing spyware, adware trojans or other harmful products. These ads typically target the new computer user who may be unaware of the danger that lurks ahead after clicking on the ad and installing the advertised product. If you know or trust a particular web-site, you can choose to support them by allowing only that sites banners and ads to be displayed while blocking potentially dangerous ads on other sites. COOKIE Blocker Pop-Up Sentry allows you to efficiently manage your cookies. Keep the ones you want and delete the rest. Cookies can be used to track your movement on the web. Cookies also provide advertisers with information regarding your surfing habits. This can lead to more advertising being displayed. Cookies themselves are not dangerous, and cannot contain spyware. They are instead used to track your surfing habits and may contain login or password information that can be used to steal your identity or trick you into submitting your login and password information - this is referred to as "phishing". HISTORY Blocker Pop-Up Sentry keeps your computer clean by allowing you to clear your surfing history including the browser url history (typed addresses), browser history (pages you have visited) and the temporary Internet Files (cache) which stores pages and images you have visited and viewed. Keeping your computer clean helps protect you from identify theft. Your surfing history can be used to determine what sites you have visited. If you are not the only user of your computer, others may be able to find your banking or credit card information from an order form you have filled out or bank account you have logged into. TROJAN Blocker Pop-Up Sentry blocks trojan and downloader applications that download other Spyware and Adware applications onto your computer without your knowledge. Trojans often are downloaded with other programs and then do nothing for a period of time as not to be detected. When they are activated they may download new programs to your computer without your knowledge or approval. Trojans can also steal passwords, logins and other personal information. This information can be sent to other computers. You have no way of knowing what happens to this information once it leaves your computer. SEARCH AD Blocker Pop-Up Sentry blocks sponsored search engine ads on over 20 of the major search engines and major web-sites. Sponsored search ads can often provide non-relevant search results. Sponsored search ads can be very misleading, especially to new computer users. Clicking the first search result provided should lead you to the most relevant content, but this is often not the case. Competitors often trick users into thinking they are purchasing or viewing information about the item they were searching for, when in fact they are at a completely different site or page. This can lead to installing spyware, adware or other harmful software. Most search engines do not regulate the ads and to where they take the user. Click here for more detailed information on sponsored search ad blocking.