[dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE?

Helmut Kotsch hkotsch at arcor.de
Wed Dec 10 03:04:41 CST 2014


Or install unchecky.

http://unchecky.com/

Helmut

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] Im Auftrag von John R Bartow
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2014 05:52
An: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
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Which brings up a good point - download from the original developer (if
possible).

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 7:56 PM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com; dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE?

most sites offering ff downloads bundle it with crapware.

pb

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From: "Tina Norris Fields" <tinanfields at torchlake.com>
Reply-To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Date: 12/09/14 4:40 PM
To: "DatabaseAdvisors-Tech" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Cc: 
Sub: [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
tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
231-322-2787

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