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Robin Heckler
AskWoody LoungerThe popup no longer happens, so all is well thank you all. It was a malware, & MalwareBytes Anti Malware, found it repeated 9 times.
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Robin Heckler
AskWoody LoungerThank you Paul, I have taken your advice, & “Malwarebyte” found 9 prob’s all of them to do with http://veryfast.io which has to do with “app store by fast”. I’ll be watching to see my problem popup gone. I HOPE!!??%%#
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Robin Heckler
AskWoody LoungerI hope this works, as I am not too good at this.
Please see what I hope is what you need, Alex
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Robin Heckler
AskWoody LoungerI am going away in the morning, I will do that next week when I’m back,
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Robin Heckler
AskWoody LoungerThe popup will show up with no browser active, as long as I am on line.
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Robin Heckler
AskWoody LoungerThanks that looks like a FIX we’ll see how it goes.
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Robin Heckler
AskWoody LoungerI can’t get my screenshot over to this reply. So I’ll tel you what what it looks like. top l/h corner has a SCAN GUARD simbel.
Then in large letters. YOUR COMPUTER IS NOT PROTECTED.
under that FIRWALL
MALWEAR etc.
SYSTEM
SPYWEARand at the very bottom “Prepaired by PC App Store etc.”
I must admit it does’nt say Microsoft Store.
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Robin Heckler
AskWoody LoungerI’ll check that out at the next ‘popup’. Susan.
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Robin Heckler
AskWoody LoungerThanks for that, but how do I do that?
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Robin Heckler
AskWoody LoungerI’m a real novice but let us see if that fix will stop me pulling my hair out. Thanks to everyone, but most of what you all say, I have to admire but goes right over my head.
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Robin Heckler
AskWoody LoungerIt keeps overlaying adds which I have to delete to get on with what I’m trying to do. ??????
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