Scareware site popups

[knew2mack]

Sometimes these scareware sites will generate a never-ending loop of popups, to the point that you must Force Quit your browser.

Yes, I am back, I changed my password as suggested. Whenever I'm using Chrome, it pops-up an 'Always Allow' 'Deny' or 'Allow' screen. Regardless of which option I choose, it immediately pops up again, until I have to Force Quit.....

How do I fix this.


thanks
Dawn

 

[Makosuke]

I don't use Chrome, but one relatively easy way to avoid having to quit the browser that should work universally is to temporarily disable Javascript until you've closed all the malicious windows.

I'm assuming here that you can get to Chrome's preferences when a popup is active; if so, go to the Security section (or wherever Chrome keeps its Javascript enable checkbox), uncheck it, close the popups, turn it back on. With Javascript disabled nothing should be able to take any action without a direct click, preventing anything untoward from popping up.