Was searching the net to get updated drivers for my old camera when up popped some popups. One of these started to put a virus on my PC. Fortunately my on line virus checker jumped in and deleted the file immiediately, so not sure which pop up did it. Is this a new thing viruses in pop up ads?

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."