[dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE?

Hi,

My sister just purchased a new Dell Latitude, with Win 8.1. Suddenly, 
pop-ups appeared all over IE, Firefox seemed to disappear and become 
Speed Browser, a bunch of icons appeared on her desktop that were 
unwelcome.  I got into IE and found add-ons that were aggressive adware 
- at least a dozen of them - and their "disable" option was 
unavailable.  I did finally get rid of them, but I was astonished to see 
them in the first place.  Has anybody else had this experience with a 
brand new machine?

She had used IE to download Firefox, and was about to download her 
favorite antivirus program, when pop-ups began proliferating all over 
the screen.  Some had nice little Xs in the top right corner, that 
looked like commands to close, but, when she clicked the X instead of 
stopping, it behaved as though she had said "Yes, go ahead."  This so 
frustrated her that she just shut down the computer.

So, today, I spent several hours cleaning it up.

Thanks,
TNF

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Tina Norris Fields
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