YahLover.worm
Today for the second time in two weeks Chrome has locked up with this worm. Message states call this number for microsoft help. Yea, sure, going to do that! Running paid AVG and malwarebytes premium a...
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fj12ryder wrote:
Some of those sites don't do much checking to see if the ads that run on their sites are relatively harmless. They're in it to make as much money as they can before the site flames out, so the more ads the better in their eyes.
It sounds like a web pop-up, so you should be able to shut down Chrome and be fine.
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Those lock-up ads do nothing more than lockup the browser, unless, of course, you click the OK button. Do a force quit on the browser and do not allow it to reopen sites when restarting the browser, and you should be fine.