Safari freezes on starairtraffic website and won't let me go anywhere else.

When I start safari it is frozen on a page with a pop-up. Is this a virus? only way to close safari is to force quit. Unfortunately its on a new mac air and I have no other internet brower!! so frustrated!!

Ok, you're doing fine and you're welcome!
I want you to open the Activity Monitor
That's located in Applications/Utilities.
Select My Processes from the pop up menu top right side of the window.
Select Safari then click the red Force Quit button.
Now open a Finder window. Select your Home folder in the Sidebar on the left.
Open the Library folder then the Safari folder.
Move the History.plist and HistoryIndex.sk files to the Trash.
Restart your Mac.
Obviously I didn't click on it.
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