I've encountered something similar a couple of times, and solved it by shutting down the browser process in System Monitor. Might that work, or did you already try it?
Randy Stapilus Ridenbaugh Press www.ridenbaugh.com WA, OR, ID Weekly Briefings 503-852-0010 On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 1:42 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > Firefox 50.1.0 on Xubuntu 14.04 up to date. > > I clicked on a link that took me to wik.galert.info (DON'T GO THERE!). > This page pops up a little window warning me that authentication is > required, and the window claims that there is a virus that is sending > my credit card, etc., and that this notice is from Microsoft > (including Microsoft logos on the page). Naturally, I'm not so stupid > that I would respond to what is surely phishing. However, I haven't > found a way to close the popup window or the tab. I shut down Firefox > and then restarted it, but at the time I had several windows open, each > with numerous tabs, so to restore my session I clicked on History > > Restore previous session. This brought back the offending tab and its > popup window. There is also a long repeating audio message "critical > alert from Microsoft." And the mouse is disabled everywhere on Firefox. > > What is interesting is that this window and the tab cannot be closed. > In fact, I cannot close any of the tabs in any of the windows. But I > was able to bookmark each tab, so I could shut down Firefox and then > recreate my windows and tabs, except the offending tab, of course. > > I have never had an experience like this. I am curious how they hacked > Firefox so the user cannot close tabs or popups. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
