Janet Wants a No Cost Solution to Blocking Certain Applications

Janet wants a no cost solution to blocking certain applications from lauching pop-up windows while she is surfing the web. She had tried everything her old Windows XP computer can run. Alternative browsers, freeware spyware scanner, nothing helps.

A) She needs to understand that these pop ups are pat of using the internet and that it is impolaite to block them because the sites she is visiting for free depend on them for revenue.
B) SP2 upgrade with the windows firewall enabled
C) She needs to use Linux instead
D) She needs to modify the hosts file daily to point all addresses that generate the pop-ups to 0.0.0.0 to keep them from resolving.