I can't name any website in particular with small windows that pop up saying "suchandsuch.com says:" .. but it happens randomly, and it will give me the option of closing out the popup and never seeing it again, only to make itself reappear seconds later. I can't close out of the browser tab (google chrome) until I close the odd little popup. My husband has seen the popups open their own tab..and sometimes it is just a small ad toward the search bar of any given tab. . Norton says there is nothing infecting my PC... ads are blocked..etc. etc. but still the ads pop up. I've gone into my Google Extensions under Tools in the browser and cleared everything also.
With the little popups I've actually read... some tell me to call an 800 number because my computer is infected..some say "java is out of date" and it redirects to another site. "Malware protection is out of date"..etc. ... and some even force open that My Computer window (terms escape me right now...sorry) to get me to save a file it wants to download, but I don't believe either of us have read what those say.
I am currently running the free trial of Norton and it is all up to date. How do I stop the ads from popping up and/or opening my files/new tabs?