yes I too had a trojan - I

netsperience — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:43:16 +0000

yes I too had a trojan - I think a win32 worm or something like that - I got by downloading an infected file from p2p

Took a heck of a lot to eradicate it but it's ok now

It was worst on IE, pretty bad on Firefox, disabled Opera, so I used the Avant browser for a while.

but I think what is being discussed here is a simple chain of pages with javascript to open a new window onclose - very common with porn sites (how would I know?) and the viewer may have set the browser to open new windows in tabs.

Either way, whether a new tab or a new window this can be very annoying and it beats me how anybody thinks it is a useful marketing technique.. often the windows will have a link that says "click here to stop opening new windows" so you are forced to follow the link...

No, I never designed such systems but their code is pretty simple.

I think closing the browser from task manager (in Windows) can stop it - if not, guess it's a reboot.

I had something similar a

Greensphere — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:11:39 +0000

I had something similar a while ago but it was a bit of malware that was to blame as fast as i was closing the tabs it was opening new ones which was enough to convince me to update my security.

Can you post the site that

pr0gr4mm3r — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:23:13 +0000

Can you post the site that was doing this?

even i was having the same

prakharmaheshwari05 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:22:00 +0000

even i was having the same problem.. thanks for the help

I didn't know about

Magenta — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:31:53 +0000

I didn't know about Ctrl+W.Thanks! I have "Block all pop-ups" set on all my browsers but it didn't stop the tabs thing. I was using Firefox when the tabs got impudent.I switched to it as my main browser because I'd read it's the most secure.However I must agree with you that the problem never occurs when using Opera.I think I'll switch back to it. Thanks for your reply, webwiz.

I have been using Opera

webwiz — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:29:12 +0000

I have been using Opera daily since 1999 and have never experienced the symptoms you describe.

Try setting "Block all pop-ups" from the quick prefences menu (F12). This will give you a subtle sliding notice that you can click if you really want to open the pop-up. For normal links that try to open a new tab you can right-click (Cmd-click on Mac) and choose "Open in new tab".

If Opera is opening windows instead of tabs, go to the Advanced tab in Preferences and remove the check mark (tick) against "Open windows instead of tabs" in the Tabs options.

FWIW - Clicking the "X" in the tab, or closing the current tab with Ctrl-W has never failed for me.

Hope this helps.