I suggest, turning off javascript and java should take care of all popups ads.

Netscape is Edit->preferences->advanced
Explorer is View->internet options->advanced (however I have not been able to get this to work in explorer, only nescape)

Good luck, it should not be much longer. I am so much looking foreward to waving this move in the faces of the people at disc server. the message history will be no problem to transfer, and robert has some new scipts setup, (has a few bugs), if you could help test them out It would be appreciatedwe could spead the move up :-) new script running at the flame board

-Justin Kelly