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Originally posted by Jorath Calar:
NEVER click the ad it self!
it was probably just a picture and will take you to the same trouble whereever you click. Click the X... or to avoid pop ups altogether use Firefox. Ihavn't seen a popup on my screen for months now.
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It's safe to say that anything that turns the mouse icon into a little hand (indicating a link unless you've been fiddling with your settings) AND comes unto your screen unwanted is bad. So if there's a hand on your screen instead of the normal mouse pointer, always think twice and wonder if you really want to click that link. Clicking the 'X' in the above right corner is always the safest thing to do when dealing with pop-ups, and if you still feel insecure, ALT-F4 will take the trouble even further away by enabling you to keep the mouse as far as possible from the nasty pop-up .