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Old December 12th 17, 03:43 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Tim Slattery[_2_]
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Default Bing and Yahoo intrusive ads

Good Guy wrote:

On 11/12/2017 16:46, 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.

Tell her there is no such thing as "update bing or yahoo". Bing and
yahoo are search engines and you need to launch a browser to search for
something.


I agree, these things are definitely not kosher.

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Tim Slattery
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