{"id":105,"date":"2009-12-24T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2012-09-24T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T19:09:20","slug":"close-pop-ups-with-altf4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/close-pop-ups-with-altf4\/","title":{"rendered":"Close pop-ups with Alt+F4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows that keyboard shortcuts can save you time &#8211; you just have to invest time in learning them first.\u00a0 But this one can actually prevent your computer from getting a virus or malware infection.<\/p>\n<p>Alt+F4 closes the currently active program in Windows. Alt+F4 means you hold down Alt key (usually next to the space bar) and then press the F4 key (in the top row of keys that you usually ignore).<\/p>\n<p>How can that prevent a malware infection?\u00a0 Many infections start with a pop-up window while you are browsing the web.\u00a0 Think about this &#8211; Can you really trust someone who writes viruses to make the &#8220;No I don&#8217;t want to install&#8221; button not do the same thing as the &#8220;Yes I want to install&#8221; button?\u00a0 Clicking anywhere on that window, even clicking the X to close it, could potentially allow it to install anything it wants on to your computer.\u00a0 This has been seen a lot recently with fake anti-virus programs.\u00a0 By closing the window with Alt+F4 instead of clicking on it you avoid the trigger that malware writers use to install their program.\u00a0 If you have many windows popping up faster than you can close them, just hold down Alt+F4 until all of them have been closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reduce the chances of you computer being infected by using this keyboard shortcut to close internet pop-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}