If the pop-ups are blocked, then users will not be able to see these windows and information in the windows. These secure sites may use pop-ups with HTTPS secure access to display login screen, announcements or trading statistics. For example, banking or financial websites which provide Internet banking, fund management, stock, share and option trading, etc. Normally, these sites are trusted and normally not harmful. The false positive is especially true in secure sites with HTTPS connection. However, pop-up blocker may sometime falsely block legitimate pop-up windows that supposedly to be allowed, which may contain important notice or information. The pop-up, or pop-under has been annoying symptom when surfing the Internet especially the windows launches by advertisements or adware, saving bandwidth, system resources and time to close these unwanted windows one by one.
#Pop up blocker internet explorer download upgrade
Since Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft Internet Explorer, including IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10 or later, which integrated as default web browser in Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, or that users can manually upgrade to, features pop-up blocker which blocks, prevents and stops most popup windows from appearing or triggering.