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Old December 12th 17, 01:13 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Mayayana
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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.
|

It's hard for anyone to offer help without more
info. On Windows or in a browser? What browser?
When online or not? At specific webpages? What's
the popup look like? (Can you take a screenshot?)

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


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