Whats quite common these days is for popup adds to spring up all over the place while you’re browsing the net, telling you that you have a serious virus infection and should do something about it immediately or bare the consequences! Nice of them to care eh!?
The first time I seen these it almost got me too but then you realize theres no way a website can know whats on my pc unless I tell it some way. These popups are actually viruses themselves and if you do as they say and click on them, they actually download and run a virus on your pc.
Sometimes even if you click close or the X button top right of the popup window you still initiate the download. What you need to do is close this window another, more complicated way! Heres how:
- Press the ‘Control-Alt-Delete’ keys simultaneously to bring up the Task Manager.
- In the ‘Applications’ tab, look for your browsers name, ie – Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.. highlight it and click the ‘End Task’ button at the bottom right. This will close all active browser windows including the virus so you might loose whatever site you were on but you should be able to click on the site window from behind the popup virus and save what you’re doing first. If not, its better to be safe than sorry.
- When all browser windows and popups are closed, update and run any anti-virus software you have just to make sure you’re clean.
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