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I would like to block a malicious pop up website.  How can I do it?

 

Thank you!

Casi 
Hello CasiBK,

 

Welcome to the Webroot Community,

 

Unfortunately, there is no way to mark a website as unwanted or to block it from within WSA. The way that the funcntionality works at present is that should you visit a website that WSA deems to be dangerous, potentially malicious or of questionable reputation then it will throw up a block page givingthe option to avoid the site or conversely to learn more and even whitellist the site locally if one sees that the block is unwarranted/the site is safe.

 

But no way to mark a site, from within WSA, as bad or not to be accessed.

 

You could be having a PUA that causes this popup. Please look at this KB article here

 

I would also add a good free Ad Blocker like the ones suggested below:

 

For Internet Explorer Ad Block Plus: https://adblockplus.org/

 

For Firefox uBlock Origin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/?src=ss or Privacy Badger: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/privacy-badger-firefox/



 

Google Chrome uBlock Origin: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en or Privacy Badger: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-badger/pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp

 

Hope this helps?

 

 

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