Why browsers still allow pop-up dialogs, which are favored by scammers, is a mystery that baffles techies. As one user on HackerNews recently complained: "There are still malware and advertising sites ...

Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 (and some earlier versions) gives you the flexibility to display or block popup windows launched from a website you're viewing. When a website displays a popup window ...

For most of us, security issues happen to "other people"—we block popup ads, we carefully examine dialog boxes and, for those of us on the Mac platform, we snicker when confronted with something that ...