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AKICILJ: Getting away from toxic websites
Dec. 7th, 2011 11:43 amFirst of all, I'm still using Internet Explorer. I've tried Firefox and Opera, and I just don't like them as well. So anyone who's going to advise me to fix my problems by switching browsers, please ignore this, KTHXBYE. I'm also using McAfee Total Protection, which is kind of cranky, but warns me about some evil websites when I'm googling.
So here's the problem. There's one site that I use that (I assume) gets its revenue from advertising. It opens up a popunder window every time I go there. I can live with that most of the time, but every so often it opens up a site that, when I try to close it, pops up a dialog window that asks something like "Do you REALLY want to navigate away from here? You shouldn't, because this is Teh Awesum!" And I have the choice of OK or Cancel, and I don't want to click either of those, because I don't trust them. Clicking on the red X in the upper-right corner just brings up the same dialog box again. The site also tends to open up to full-screen size, when it started out much smaller. The only solution I've found is the terminal one -- use Windows' Task Manager to close down IE. Which is a pain because it closes all my IE windows, and I can't use the recovery feature afterwards because it would bring back the one site I don't want along with everything else.
I use a popup blocker, but it doesn't stop most popunders. I'm on Windows XP.
Help?
So here's the problem. There's one site that I use that (I assume) gets its revenue from advertising. It opens up a popunder window every time I go there. I can live with that most of the time, but every so often it opens up a site that, when I try to close it, pops up a dialog window that asks something like "Do you REALLY want to navigate away from here? You shouldn't, because this is Teh Awesum!" And I have the choice of OK or Cancel, and I don't want to click either of those, because I don't trust them. Clicking on the red X in the upper-right corner just brings up the same dialog box again. The site also tends to open up to full-screen size, when it started out much smaller. The only solution I've found is the terminal one -- use Windows' Task Manager to close down IE. Which is a pain because it closes all my IE windows, and I can't use the recovery feature afterwards because it would bring back the one site I don't want along with everything else.
I use a popup blocker, but it doesn't stop most popunders. I'm on Windows XP.
Help?
