One thing I learned from coding with Visual Basic for Applications was that I could create a popup box that said anything I wanted and did whatever I wanted when clicked.
So when I see a popup that says, for example, Do You Really Want To Leave This Site, unless I trust the site, I won’t click it. You could be authorizing the server to do all kinds of crap. Better to go in your taskbar and click X on that screen.
So when I see a popup that says, for example, Do You Really Want To Leave This Site, unless I trust the site, I won’t click it. You could be authorizing the server to do all kinds of crap. Better to go in your taskbar and click X on that screen.
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In Safari when that situation arises, I simply close out the tab. Am I accomplishing the same thing?
The problem with this is it doesn’t require the user to do anything to launch the malware and clicking the close window or tab has no effect on the fact the malware had been already launched in the background of your browser’s environment. The ONLY current solution is to quit the browser and NOT revisit the website that has that infection script included when you restart the browser, whether automatically reloading last opened tabs, or the user goes back to the website intentionally. . . And apparently there’s no way to easily know if any website (or an ad on the website) has infected your browser!
Thanks for that advice.