What Would You Do? Answer
When confronted with a pop-up window of unknown origins, it is best to close the window by pressing the Alt key on the keyboard in conjunction with the F4 key on the keyboard. Alt-F4 will close the current window.
Clicking on Cancel or even the X button would install the product that would introduce all sorts of problems to your computer.
Wikipedia has a nice article with links to other reviews of this type of "product".
2 comments:
I'm squinting my eyes and trying to think this through...If the unsolicited window pops up as a pop-under, then I guess we would minimize the good windows until the bad window was active and then do alt-F4? IMHO, pop-unders are almost worse than pop-ups; they make me wonder what's going on under there!
Yes, that would be a good strategy. Although, I wonder how many of these malicious hooks appear as pop-unders since they are wanting to make it appear that your computer is sending you a message?
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