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Pop-up Killer Review

 
 

Last updated: Sep 9, 2005



A quote from Hitware Companion's site:

Hitware Companion is robust all in one privacy software solution. Providing intelligent pop-up and pop-under ads killer. Running in the system tray Hitware Companion quietly eliminates all unwanted pop-up and pop-under ads even before they appear.

Also coming with boss key, Internet Explorer, applications and Windows tracks eraser.

Popup Blocker & Browser Cleaning:
Eliminate popup and pop-under ads even before they appear with the option to allow pop-ups from trusted sites. By erasing your Internet Explorer location bar history, browser history, cache, cookies, AutoComplete data, favorites and clear your browser locked index.dat.
Hitware Companion speed up your computer speed, restore hard drive space by cleaning your Windows temp files, recent document list, find history, find computers history, network cache, run history, recycle bin contents, and much, much more. Hitware Companion support erasing your applications usage history by erasing your MediaPlayer, ACDSee, Acrobat Reader, Infran View, MS Imaging, MS Paint, MS Word, WinRar and RealOne player history.

Boss Key:
With simple keyboard click you can Hide/ Show all your Internet Explorer windows and Mute/ Un-mute your windows sound.


Test results:
Accept Useful New Windows: Simple examples. (2 points)
 A new window appears after a link has been clicked
 A new window appears after the "Open in New Window" menu item has been clicked
 A new window appears after a button has been clicked
 Popup windows at https- and edu- sites
Accept Useful New Windows: Sophisticated examples. New Window looks like Popup - popup killer should not confuse them. (1 point)
 A new window appears after a link has been clicked and the parent page was refreshed simultaneously
 A new window appears after a link has been clicked and the parent page was closed simultaneously
 A new window appears after a link has been clicked and some dialogue has been shown

Stop Popup ads: Simple examples. (2 points)
 Ordinary OnLoad Popup
 Ordinary OnQuit Popup
 Ordinary Delayed Popup
 Delayed Synthesized Popup
 Delayed Modeless Dialog Popup
 Adware Popup
 Camouflaged Popup
 Windowless Flash
 InVue Popup
 Interstitials
Stop Popup ads: Sophisticated examples. Popups looks like Clicked New Windows - popup killer should not confuse them. (1 point)
 There is a page with an OnLoad Popup and a link to reload itself. The OnLoad Popup appears after the reload link has been clicked
 There is a page with an OnQuit Popup and a link to reload itself. OnQuit Popup appears after the reload link has been clicked

HitWare Companion is detected by simple popup killer detector


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