Windows. Price: Freeware, $26.95 (plus), $39.95, (professional). www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
High-Density Software PopNot
You know those pop-up and pop-under ads, first made famous by X10 Corp. and then later by illicit sites (use your imagination). Annoying, aren't they? Granted, many valuable sites make their money from advertising. But the pop-unders have gone too far: We hate closing a Web page to find three or four ads behind it, not knowing where they came from. And if you've ever mistyped a domain, you may have entered the hellish world of the never-ending pop-under ad, where trying to close one opens two more. Although the Mozilla, Opera and Safari users among us can block these infuriating ads automatically, Internet Explorer users cannot. Fortunately, the cheap utility PopNot will let IE 5.01 or later block all unsolicited pop-ups. It does allow solicited pop-ups, such as those requested by clicking on a link or pressing a button. Or you can customize it to permit pop-ups on a site-by-site basis. Suggested by Ron Anderson. Platform: Windows Internet Explorer. Price: $19.95. www.hdsoft.com/?0.1sa
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold
We gave WhatsUp Gold a Best Value award earlier this year. It's a budget-priced network-management suite, but that doesn't mean it has a budget-size feature set. WUG performs device discovery, produces network maps, monitors select services (such as HTTP), sends alerts and generates reports for network infrastructure and servers. The program also includes a Web server and Web interface for basic network management. This makes it easy for an administrator to use the software remotely or from a user's PC--many other suites require a Win32 console agent installed. WUG can monitor and access IP, IPX, NetBIOS or SNMP devices. Bruce Boardman has been known to show WUG to his college students as an introduction to network-management tools. Suggested by Bruce Boardman. Platform: Windows. Price: $795, service agreement and training extra. www.ipswitch.com/Products/WhatsUp/index.html
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