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I have been browsing sites and in the middle of reading articles a really obnoxious pop up appears, do people hijack in to put them there or is that something the creator of th
Can people hijack into your site and put popups in?
I have been browsing sites and in the middle of reading articles a really obnoxious pop up appears, do people hijack in to put them there or is that something the creator of th
No what usually happens is a JavaScript pop-up is affecting your browser. It's know as adware.
In some cases you can have a trojan or ad virus infecting your computer. It best to run a scan on your computer
I also found an article that walks through removing these types of popups appearing in your browser.
The article covers EI, Firefox and Chrome
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/how-block-pop-ups-get-rid-of-pop-ups-in-windows-7-windows-8-3494487/
Hope this helps
No - and sometimes it can be a virus or trojen, but more often then not it is a JavaScript pop-up affecting your browser
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No what usually happens is a JavaScript pop-up is affecting your browser. It's know as adware.
In some cases you can have a trojan or ad virus infecting your computer. It best to run a scan on your computer
I also found an article that walks through removing these types of popups appearing in your browser.
The article covers EI, Firefox and Chrome
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/how-block-pop-ups-get-rid-of-pop-ups-in-windows-7-windows-8-3494487/
Hope this helps
So someone does not hack in to put the pop up there, it gets in via a virus?
No - and sometimes it can be a virus or trojen, but more often then not it is a JavaScript pop-up affecting your browser