{"id":22609,"date":"2021-12-06T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=22609"},"modified":"2021-12-06T07:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T12:00:34","slug":"what-to-do-if-ads-start-popping-up-all-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/what-to-do-if-ads-start-popping-up-all-over\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do if ads start popping up all over"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What to do if ads start popping up all over<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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We’ve been getting a lot of emails lately and people are telling us that all of sudden when they browse the web or check their email online ads start appearing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, we\u2019ll admit, Windows updates have not been paragons of flawless software engineering \u2013 quite the contrary. Windows updates may be a lot of things, but they don\u2019t install malware or adware on your computer. And many people tell us they think all the ads started with a Windows update.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s natural when things change to blame the last thing that changed on your computer \u2013 if that was a Windows update \u2013 it gets the blame. But Windows updates do not install bad extensions in your favorite browser. But many other tricky software bundles do.\u00a0 In this era of chicanery and trickery, you have to be careful about what you install these days \u2013 especially freeware.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many excellent, clean freeware programs exist. But a lot of good freeware programs are bundled with badware by download sites. CNet and Softonics are known for this, but many other download sites are playing this game now too.\u00a0 At this time, we only trust one download site unconditionally and that\u2019s Snapfiles<\/a>. And for an alternate download site, we like Major Geeks<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

If all of a sudden you start getting ads popping up whenever you browse the web or check your email, the first thing you should do is reset your browser and clear your browser\u2019s history.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how to reset the three most popular browsers.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chrome<\/strong> \u2013 Click the Menu icon (very top-right; it looks like 3 vertical dots). Click Settings. At the very bottom of the Settings dialog, click Show Advanced Settings, scroll to the bottom, and click \u201cReset settings\u201d. For a complete guide see our tutorial here.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Firefox<\/strong> \u2013 Click Help \/ Troubleshooting information \/ Refresh Firefox. For a complete tutorial on resetting Firefox\u00a0see this page<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft Edge<\/strong> \u2013 Click on the 3 horizontal 3 dots (icon) on the top right of EDGE, and then click Settings. From the menu that appears on the left click \u201cReset settings\u201d. In the next dialog, click on \u201cRestore settings to their default values\u201d when it appears in the right pane. A dialog will appear labeled \u201cReset settings\u201d. It contains information about resetting MS Edge and buttons labeled \u201cReset\u201d and \u201cCancel\u201d. Click on \u201cReset\u201d.\u00a0 S<\/span>ee our tutorial here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    What to do if ads start popping up all over We’ve been getting a lot of emails lately and people are telling us that all of sudden when they browse the web or check their email online ads start appearing.\u00a0\u00a0 Well, we\u2019ll admit, Windows updates have not been paragons of flawless software engineering \u2013 quite the\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1655,1462,2574,2659,1669,2660],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22611,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22609\/revisions\/22611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}