On 08/29/2014 07:22 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote:
Be careful here. There exists a form of mal-ware which is a pop-up that tells you to "update" your flash player, but in fact, its an attempt to get you to install the mal-ware. The point that sticks out here is that the "flash" player that they are trying to install does not come from Adobe/Shockwave.
Some of these sites ask you to confirm that you want to leave the site. Brain damaged ones even ask if you click on a link. Dain bramaged ones will keep asking forever until you agree to stay on the site, to the point that you need to use kill -9 in a terminal to kill firefox completely.
If you've ever had a problem with that, here's what you do. First, you bookmark a page. When the dialog comes up, name it Escape, or whatever you think will remind you of what it's doing. Replace the url with this:
javascript:window.onbeforeunload=null;document.body.onbeforeunload=null;window.onunload=null;document.body.onunload=null;window.onblur=null;document.body.onblur=null;window.onkeypress=null;window.onkeyup=null;document.body.onkeypress=null;document.body.onkeyup=null;document.body.outerHTML='<body>Try%20closing%20now.</body>';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].outerHTML='<head></head>';void%200;
Save the bookmark and go back to surfing. The next time this happens, confirm that you want to leave; if it doesn't let you, click on this special bookmark. Then, when the popup comes back, confirm that you want to leave and it will now let you.