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Old December 14th 17, 06:23 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Tim Slattery[_2_]
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Default Bing and Yahoo intrusive ads

Tim Slattery wrote:

My wife uses Windows 8.1. She says she is constantly getting pop-ups
telling her to update Bing or Yahoo and make it her default search
engine. She says these pop-ups are impossible to shut down. She would
very much like to stop them from appearing, and I'm at a loss what to
tell her.


Oh well, it's all moot now. A couple of days ago, when it booted up,
the machine got stuck and decided it had to "refresh" itself. This
consisted of uninstalling *all* software that had been installed on it
since its first start-up, and returning to the default software. So we
are trying to find discs, download sites, etc.

I've never heard of that "refresh" process before, certainly never
seen it appear. I haven't a clue of what caused it.

Since we've got a pristine copy of Firefox, the pop-ups that were
giving her grief aren't there anymore.

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Tim Slattery
tim at risingdove dot com
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