North Carolina State University study: 63 percent of Web-browsing students would click “OK” when they saw a fake warning window. Fake popups are increasingly found on legitimate Web sites, experts say. Security expert: “You can get into this sort of Alice in Wonderland desktop where nothing responds like you think it should” Users should close the window from the Windows taskbar at the bottom of the screen, expert says. “Sometimes the safest thing to do is to kill the entire browser,” Eric Howes says.”]
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