Finding a budget priced solution to your problem isn't an easy thing to do. Popup Ad Smasher, in spite of a rather ridiculous name, is priced at merely $20, placing it in the realm of just about everyone. One thing that we've learned in the past is that price or quantity doesn't necessarily dictate quality, so we approach our reviews from a slightly different perspective.

If a product has budget pricing as this software does, we are actually a bit more stringent on it. We try to look at the software from the point of view as someone who doesn't necessarily have any more money to spend on it. In this situation, Popup Ad Smasher was in our cross hairs simply because there are so many claimed features and benefits to the program.

Features

Popup Ad Smasher is quite standard in terms of its feature set, and there is nothing here that is out of the ordinary or amazing. In fact, this software might just be as plain jane as it gets. It integrates into your operating system and runs silently in the background.

Popup Ad Smasher tries quite hard to be a jock of all trades, as does quite a bit. It cleans any saved or incoming cookies, prevents web crawlers from accessing your computer, blocks out harmful or offensive content, blocks those popups that occur inside a webpage (as a javascript applet), cleans internet related files from your computer (history, cache, etc), and even offers a password protect feature for when you're away from your computer.

As we said before, fairly standard in terms of features, though certain integrations (like the content control feature) are particularly well thought out. This program actually comes off as more of an all-around security program, as opposed to simply a popup blocker.

Using Popup Ad Smasher

This program has a relatively crude interface, and it is not as user-friendly as some of the other, more established programs that are on the market. However, that doesn't mean that it isn't easy to use and navigate through. Rather, we found that there is a bit of a learning curve, where you have to spend some time figuring out what all of the menu's and buttons do.

Once we had it figured out and running, everything was good. The software did its job quite well, and we have yet to find one website that managed to slip a popup by. We didn't really test some of the other features, such as their cookie deletion or password protection features, but we're confident that they would work as advertised.

Conclusion

The fact is that this product is less than half of the cost of some of the other competition programs, and it's still a pretty good piece of software. It's like how Honda costs less than Porsche, but the Honda S2000 can move with the rest of them.