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Thank you for the heads up. :)
Thank you for the heads up. :)
It is the browser that is high jacked which means whilst you have an internet connection it remains live.
By closing your internet connection, then deleting the offending page before you reconnect to the internet, you render the high jacker cleared.
Nothing is downloaded onto the computer
These so-called "browser lockers" are typically not a virus themselves. They don't download anything, or replicate themselves. They only use a specially crafted page that takes over the browser using JavaScript in a way that is very difficult to work around. Often, killing the browser and re-opening won't help because most browsers will just re-open the offending page and you'll be back where you started.
That's why disabling your internet connection, killing the browser, then re-opening it and closing the now errored out pages is the only way out. I don't know of any anti-virus program that will prevent this, although some may mark the pages as malicious and give you a warning before allowing you to navigate to them (but this is only AFTER they have had sufficient people already fall into the trap that they can be included in the database, it doesn't help for new ones).