[dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE?

Hi Helmut

What a great tip. Seems like a must-have on any home machine. Thanks.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Helmut Kotsch
Sendt: 10. december 2014 10:05
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Or install unchecky.

http://unchecky.com/

Helmut

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Which brings up a good point - download from the original developer (if possible).

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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"
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Date: 12/09/14 4:40 PM
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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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