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That's actually a very good idea, or if you know enough to do so safely, you can go to the tab which shows running processes, and kill any process you aren't sure of. If you don't know what you're doing, don't try this.

And, even if you are sure that you killed the thing before it could install anything - run a few scans anyway. A few, because no single security product catches everything, and run it anyway because if you got something illicit on your screen, you simply don't know what might have happened. I know a guy who can write machine code - from memory - and he will still scan a system which has had rogue pop-ups appear (unless it was a virtual machine, and he just starts over, or other obvious exceptions). If he can't be sure, I know I can't be...

Yes, it's a pain. An annoyance. A time waster. But if one of those nasty little buggers gets into your system, you'll have a lot more annoyances, a lot more wasted time, a lot more headaches.

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