Mousetrapping Websites - What You Should Know About It

Have you ever visited a website but cannot close your browser or leave from the website? This act is called mousetrapping. Mousetrapping is an act of preventing you from leaving a website. You cannot leave from it even though you've typed a new URL in the address bar or you've pressed the close button. It will make you stay on the same website.

Sometimes, it will open a new browser displaying the same site. In order for you to leave it, you can try either of these:

1. Choose a new site from your bookmark. Open your bookmark and select a new website.
2. Use the task manager to kill the browser process.
3. Disable Javascript in your browser.

These three methods will help you in dealing with mousetrapping websites. If you cannot open your task manager, it's a good practice if you place a shortcut to HijackThis on your desktop. it's because HijackThis has a tool that act like a task manager. You can try killing the browser process using the process manager from HijackThis Misc Tools Section. If all the methods above do not work, try restarting your computer.