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Old December 12th 17, 03:42 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Tim Slattery[_2_]
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"Mayayana" wrote:

"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.
|

It's hard for anyone to offer help without more
info.


Very reasonable. I should have supplied more data.

On Windows or in a browser? What browser?

In Firefox.

When online or not? At specific webpages?


We have a broadband connection, so she's always online. Apparently
it's not on specific webpages.

What's
the popup look like? (Can you take a screenshot?)'


I'll try to do that.

To stop them you have to know where they're
coming from.


That would help, but I don't think they want us to know...

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Tim Slattery
tim at risingdove dot com
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