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smudger1946
smudger1946 Posts: 645 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
Morning
Got a problem with new laptop which was running great until last eve when suddenly my search engine changed from whatever laptop came with to Yahoo, today there are pop up ads all over Amazon and elsewhere making there sites almost un-usable, I know one of the pop ups name is Brown fox and Candle jar, Flicker something.
How the hell do I get rid of them, my Macaffe security keeps telling me about iffy site trying to get in, Help is needed please.

Smudger

Comments

  • aerostar
    aerostar Posts: 1,738 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    You probably installed something and never read the Terms and Conditions, you just agreed, and by doing so gave permission to install whatever they liked.

    Download Malwarebytes, install and run it, with luck it should find the offending problems.
  • debitcardmayhem
    debitcardmayhem Posts: 12,960 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 27 November 2015 at 1:50PM
    Also run AdwCleaner

    And I would replace Mcrappy with Avast or Bitdefender
    4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy
  • smudger1946
    smudger1946 Posts: 645 Forumite
    Many thanks all sorted now, used Adware.

    Regards
    Smudger
  • giraffe69
    giraffe69 Posts: 3,607 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    But still worth considering using an alternative to Mcafee. It didn't help much tghis time and at some point they will want money to renew.
  • Gillor
    Gillor Posts: 803 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    And for the future, to help to avoid downloading adware bundled with "legitimate" software, consider installing Unchecky.
  • Teresa07
    Teresa07 Posts: 2 Newbie
    It seems that your computer has got infected by adware. Try detecting and removing all those adware related files with Malwarebytes.
  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
    Post building?
  • AndyPix
    AndyPix Posts: 4,847 Forumite
    Fifth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Who ?

    You or the poster above you
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