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Old December 12th 17, 03:55 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Paul[_32_]
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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 could be similar to this report.

https://productforums.google.com/for...A/VzKCIgwQDQAJ

If you have a picture of the popup, you can Google some
of the text and check for a match. Windows 8 has SnippingTool,
which can take a snapshot of the whole desktop, and that
would be sufficient for the job of gathering evidence.
The output is stored as a PNG image file by default.

Paul
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