Showing posts with label stop. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Stop pop up ads and adware in Edge Browser
Stop pop up ads and adware in Edge Browser
How stop annoying adverts from taking over the new Microsoft Edge browser? I get this question a lot, especially when most users decided to upgrade to Windows 10. It becomes even more frustrating when people realize that they cant use ad blockers because Microsoft Edge doesnt support add-ons and extensions. As you may know, most pop-up ads are caused by adware. Thats why you might need to remove adware first before blaming Edge browser for not doing enough to protect you from intrusive adverts. Adware, or Advertising Supported Software to give it its full name is something which you should be aware of even if you use Microsoft Edge. This is the name given to software programs that have been designed to display, or download, pop-up adverts onto your computer screen. Of course, advertising is a form of marketing ? we all know that ? and of course the reason for adwares existence is to generate a source of income for its programmer or owner. And while this is good news for programmers, advertisers and brands that use adware, where does that leave the likes of you and me? Can adware actually do us harm like so many of the other types of malicious software that are out there?
The way that adware works
Adware works in one of two ways and the adverts themselves will either appear as a pop-up window or they will be embedded in the Edges interface. Adverts can be fairly discreet and sit neatly at the edges of a page of a website, or they can be in your face, thoroughly garish pop-up windows.
Theres probably no one who will argue that pop-up windows arent the bane of a computer users life ? they can be annoying to the point of distraction! But is adware something other than just a nuisance and could it actually be doing you any damage?
The issues with adware
Many people take umbrage with adware thanks to the way that it monitors which websites you are looking at. You see, at the point of installation, adware will also install a component which enables the programmer to track which websites you visit and see which pages or products you look at upon those pages. They are then able to customize the type of adverts they show you based on what they perceive to be your tastes, needs or interests.
It goes without saying that targeted adverts have a higher chance of tempting you to click on them to discover more, rather than adverts for completely random goods that you have no interest in whatsoever.
Who makes adware and why?
Well aside from the obvious reason why anyone creates any form of advertising, adware is also used by the software developers who make it to attempt to recover the costs they incurred when they developed another app or program. You will download their latest must have app or even a program that enables you to work smarter but unbeknown to you, the adware will be bundled with that program.
Is adware dangerous?
There are two sides to this ongoing argument. Many people dont worry too much about the existence of adware as they see it as a necessary evil if they want to be able to download free apps, files or programs. Other people however find the fact that it tracks your usage extremely intrusive and will argue that because the adware was packaged surreptitiously with another program to spy on you this makes it potentially dangerous.
How do I stop pop-up adverts in Microsoft Edge?
First of all, scan your computer with anti-malware software, especially if you are still not familiar with Windows 10. Adwares programmers are smart and try to hide malicious files on your computer making it difficult to find and remove each malicious file. To remove adware from your computer and stop the absolutely annoying ads, please follow the steps in the removal guide below. If you have any questions, please leave a comment down below. Good luck and be safe online!
Written by Michael Kaur, http://deletemalware.blogspot.com
Stop pop-up ads and adware in Edge Browser:
1. End Edge browser task in Task Manager.
2. Disconnect your computer from the Internet.
3. Start Edge browser and just before the offending pop-up appears, press Ctrl+T (several times if necessary). This will allow you to get into Edge settings and clear cookies, etc. Next time you start all should be well. If you are still getting the annoying ads, do the following:
a. Close Edge browser again.
b. Navigate to
C:Users[your-user-name]AppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.MicrosoftEdge_xxxxxxACMicrosoftEdgeUserDefaultRecoveryActive
c. Delete everything on that directory and open Edge browser.
4. Download anti-malware software and run a full system scan. It will detect and remove adware from your computer. You may then follow the manual removal instructions below to remove the leftover traces of this adware. Hopefully you wont have to do that.
5. Remove adware related programs from your computer using the Uninstall a program control panel. Simply drag your mouse pointer to the right edge of the screen, select Search from the list and search for "control panel".
Or you can right-click on a bottom left hot corner (formerly known as the Start button) and select Control panel from there.
6. When the the Uninstall a Program screen is displayed, scroll through the list of currently installed programs and remove the following:
- PlayGEM
- GoSave
- Extag
- SaveNewaAppz
- and any other recently installed application
Simply select a suspicious application and click Uninstall up near the top of that window. When youre done, please close the Control Panel screen.
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Monday, April 3, 2017
Stop the Obama administration from surrendering authority over the Internet
Stop the Obama administration from surrendering authority over the Internet
The "IANA Transition" took a big step forward this month and we are one step closer to the US government handing control over the DNS and IP numbering to a vaguely-defined group accountable, effectively, to nobody.
What with the weirdest Presidential election in my lifetime going on its easy to imagine important public policy events going unnoticed. One of them is that the Obama administration is moving closer to surrendering the US governments stewardship of the Internets numbering and naming systems.
To put it bluntly, I dont understand why we would do this. The only changes it could bring are bad ones. Once our authority over the parties administering core Internet infrastructure is gone, ultimate political control over it is gone. I think this is a bad thing. The US has done an admirable job of supervising the development of the Internet and theres no evidence that it has ever exerted untoward influence over the processes. I like the idea that the administrative bodies are clearly accountable to some clearly independent body.
We all know now that the Internet began as a US government project. Administration of parts of it was eventually outsourced, first to Network Solutions Inc and then to a non-profit corporation created just for the task: ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). ICANN operates autonomously, but under a contract from the US government, specifically from the NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration) in the US Department of Commerce.
In early March Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator, reiterated the Obama administrations commitment to transfer their authority over the IANA, the part of ICANN which controls the numbering system, to "the global multistakeholder community." The community he names, in the form of the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG), has delivered to the NTIA a formal proposal for the transition. Strickling says that the NTIA will be reviewing the proposal to make sure it meets their requirements, some of which are pure bureaucratic blather and some uncontroversial niceties.
This particular agreement deals only with the numbering system, not naming. Naming, in the form of control of the DNS root zone, is run by Verisign under a separate agreement with the NTIA, in cooperation with ICANN. But the administration has also announced their intention to surrender that authority.
The NTIA is much more directly involved in the DNS administration process (see image below). All changes to the root zone, the root-servers.net zone, and the root hints file must be approved by the NTIA acting as Root Zone Administrator.
The processes shown in the diagram have been significantly modernized in recent years, and public input is always sought when changes are proposed.
The NTIA function as Root Zone Administrator is just an extra check and so Verisigns proposal is simply to remove it. As a test, parallel authentication processes would be run for a time and compared for consistency. If there are none for some agreed period of time , success is declared and the new system goes hot.
This leaves ICANN and Verisign as the authoritative bodies controlling the DNS. A new agreement would be needed between ICANN and Verisign or, theoretically, whatever other body ICANN and the vaunted global multistakeholder community choose to operate as Root Zone Maintainer. No such agreement has yet been revealed.
Who is the "global multistakeholder community" to which the NTIA refers? Its basically the same shifty technocracy that has been running ICANN for a while, the one that makes gobs of money for themselves by creating top-level domains like .christmas and .florist. To replace the NTIA oversight functions they will create new entities, all part of ICANN. In other words, ICANN will police itself. The supervisory bodies will, in theory, have the ability to change operators for the numbering or naming systems, but Im skeptical.
There are potential legal problems with the proposed transition. See section 539(a) of the "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016" (i.e. the Federal budget), which forbids funds from being used "to relinquish the responsibility of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, during fiscal year 2016..."
Then theres Article IV, Section 3 of the US Constitution: "The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States." Is the NTIAs authority over the naming and numbering systems on the Internet "Property belonging to the United States?" To my mind, obviously yes. Its certainly valuable and there are plenty of parties who would pay a lot of money to have it.
But Im not a lawyer. Internet law scholar and retired law professor David Post, blogging at the Volokh Conspiracy, disagrees with me, basically arguing that this authority is not "property" in any relevant sense. Obviously there is more than one way to look at this.
Many of you non-Americans are wondering why the US gets such authority. Easy. We made the Internet. Weve made sure that it could be as free and open as it is. Dont like it? Call your congressman. Its a good thing that the US government and not (oh, for example) the United Nations, has been in charge. The plan is not to put them in charge, but once clear authority is gone, who knows where it will end up.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Thereƒ??s One Thing Volkswagen Can Do to Stop the Bleeding BusinessWeek
Thereƒ??s One Thing Volkswagen Can Do to Stop the Bleeding BusinessWeek
Beat Tesla.
First we learned Volkswagen sold 11 million diesel cars specifically designed to conceal deadly NOx emissions. Now we?re told another 800,000 have been coughing up faulty readings of carbon dioxide?the very thing more than 80 world leaders are addressing at climate talks in Paris this month.
It?s hard to imagine a more damaging scandal. This is a company that built its modern brand on efficiency, engineering and warm fuzzy feelings (think flower vases built into VW bugs and commercials of dear friends driving under the spell of Nick Drake?s Pink Moon).
Deception, pollution, and lung cancer: These do not inspire warm and fuzzy feelings.
Since the scandal erupted, Volkswagen has lost almost half its market value, and prices for its cars are dropping. To avoid losing a generation of enthusiasts, there are three things the company must do to tow itself from the muck:
Come clean. If there are more problems out there, Volkswagen needs to find and disclose them immediately. A long, slow trickle is worse than a big confession.
Fix the problems. Customers bought Volkswagens thinking they were zippy, fuel-efficient, environmentally friendly vehicles. Fix the cars to be just that, or offer refunds.
Beat Tesla.
While Volkswagens engineers were writing software code to dupe the world into thinking diesel could be a clean-burning fuel, Tesla was building the battery-powered car of the future. Forget emissions cheating?electric cars don?t even have tailpipes. Tesla has a multi-billion-dollar head start, but this is Volkswagen, the biggest automaker in the world. VW could crush it.
A few weeks ago, Volkswagen issued a press release pledging to make efficiency a higher priority in the wake of the scandal, with a focus on electric cars and hybrids. But it?s mostly incremental stuff: a new modular platform to create electric drivetrain versions of popular cars, and a high-performance next-generation Phaeton aimed at the affluent Tesla crowd.
This is still playing catch-up, which nearly every other carmaker (plus Google and Apple) is doing as well. It?s not enough.
So far, none of the biggest carmakers have gone all in on electric cars. BMW has received a lot of favorable comparisons to Tesla in the past year, but let?s be real: The hybrid BMW i8 is a work of engineering art, but the plug is practically useless, offering an electric range of about 20 miles before the fossil fuels kick in. The i3, while more affordable than the current lineup of Teslas, has a range of about 80 miles per charge, less than a Nissan Leaf.
There is simply no electric car on the market today that is remotely close to the top-of-the-line Tesla:
- Range: almost 300 miles
- Punch: 0 to 60 miles per hour in 2.8 seconds
- Features: industry-leading "auto pilot" thats constantly improving
- Release date for the more affordable, $30,000 Model 3: 2017
VW could be a Tesla killer (or at least a respected rival) if it really put its mind to it. It has two big advantages: money and scale. Tesla is spending about $1.7 billion this year to build its business, and Wall Street hates it. Not an earnings call goes by that analysts don?t fume over how much cash the company is burning. But by VW standards, that?s a small price to pay. Volkswagen spent almost 8 times that much on research and development alone last year and has about $30 billion in cash.
Tesla?s biggest problem is scaling up its operations. The company?s new Model X has a waiting list that stretches into the second half of next year, and its emerging battery business is booked until 2017. With the more affordable Model 3, to be unveiled in March and go on sale in 2017, CEO Elon Musk hopes to go from 50,000 sales in 2015 to 500,000 in 2020. Many analysts dont think thats possible. Volkswagen, by comparison, already sells 10 million cars a year. Scale is not a problem.
Volkswagen has been humbled to a stock valuation of about $58 billion, or 7.5 times its estimated 2015 earnings. Upstart Tesla has a market cap of $30 billion without turning a profit. Tesla gets a lot of good will from customers and investors, because it?s putting it all on the line to make the future of cars arrive sooner.
No major automaker has done the same, though a smattering of more-competitive electric cars is slated for the next three years. If Volkswagen really wanted to, it could still be first to sell a 300-mile-range all-electric car for under $30,000. The only way to make up for the past is to commit to the future.
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Sunday, October 16, 2016
Troubleshooter of Error Auto Scrolling in Windows 7 How do you stop it
Troubleshooter of Error Auto Scrolling in Windows 7 How do you stop it
Auto Scrolling in Windows 7 - How do you stop it??
Every time I open a folder or menu, the list scrolls straight down to the bottom.ÿ Everything from printer properties, to document folders, sound settings etc etc etc.ÿ All folders and menus do it and its starting to really annoy me.ÿ Even when I go to
add something to favourites, if I click on the drop down to select a folder, it just scrolls back up and or down and wont let me select a folder, or even if I am installing a new program, it wont even let me select the country as it scrolls to the bottom.ÿ
Happens on the machine and on the net.ÿ I have tried with and without a mouse, have tried 3 different mice and have uninstalled all three and done it over again, each time updating the drivers.
Is it something to do with this aero thing?ÿ I think Ive looked
absolutely everywhere in the settings, but I still could have missed something.ÿ Can someone please help??ÿ I am using a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad with Win 7 Pro.ÿ Im at my wits end..
please help me......
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Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Stop pop up ads and adware in Steam
Stop pop up ads and adware in Steam
Certain adware variants can affect programs like Steam and display pop-up ads. In my case it was DNS Unlocker adware. Yours might be different but in general, if you want to stop pop-up ads in Steam client you need to remove adware from your computer. As you may already know, advertising supported software, or adware as it is more commonly referred to as, is the name for any computer software program that has been designed to show you ads and pop-ups when you are online and browsing the internet. Usually, adware affects web browsers but Steam client and similar programs can be affected as well. The whole reason for adwares existence is to generate revenue. The adware might be a source of income for the programmer but what does it mean for the likes of you and me?
In its most innocent incarnation adware is generally easy to ignore. In its worst incarnations, however, it is a different story entirely! If you are unlucky enough to be infected by the worst kind, you will soon be tearing you hair out in frustration.
The way in which adware works
Adware has two different ways of working. The first is to show you a screen when the program ? or should we say malware ? is installing itself, and the second is that it is actually buried in the softwares user interface. If you are seeing pop up ads on your computer and in your Steam client you have been hit by the worst type of adware. If you are seeing adverts that are displaying products that are the same as, or very similar to, things you have been looking at online recently, then you are seeing the regular type of adware.
Wait! How does adware know what I have been looking at online recently?
Adware of this nature ? i.e. the type that we all see every day - has one defining trait and that is the ability to monitor which websites you visit. This means that the programmer can decide which adverts they show you so that they have a better chance of you clicking through and spending some of your hard earned cash! How does it do that? Because when the adware is installed on your PC it also installs a tracking component that follows everything you do on the internet. Are you thinking what I am thinking? Thats kind of an invasion of your privacy, no? It sure is but what makes it even worse that adware like DNS Unlocker can be grab info from Steam and other programs. So, dont be surprised to see third-party game advertisements on your Steam client. Of course, sometimes adware will probably display completely unrelated ads as shown in the image above. Real estate ads on Steam? Seriously? Well, scammers dont discriminate. If someone paid for such ads they will certainly display them no matter what program you use, even if its Steam.
So does this mean that adware is a type of malware?
Adware is often talked about at the same time as other types of malware but this is actually somewhat of a grey area. Some people see adware as something that can be annoying, but livable with, while other people are strongly against its very existence thanks to its scant disregard for your privacy. And of course, the people that program adware will tell you that there is absolutely nothing wrong with it at all!
I think I want to protect myself against adware ? what do I do?
The best thing you can do to prevent adware from becoming a blight upon your online life is to install a decent anti-malware program on your computer.
How to stop ads and adware in Steam?
As I said, you need to identify and remove adware from your computer. You can do this manually or run a full system scan with anti-malware software. Either way, please follow the steps in the removal guide below. I use DNS Unlocker as an example but it should be the same with any other adware in case yours is different. If you have any questions, please leave a comment down below. Good luck and be safe online!
Written by Michael Kaur, http://deletemalware.blogspot.com
Steam Adware and Pop-up Ads Removal Guide:
1. First of all, download anti-malware software and run a full system scan. It will detect and remove this infection from your computer. You may then follow the manual removal instructions below to remove the leftover traces of this malware. Hopefully you wont have to do that.
2. Remove DNS Unlocker related programs from your computer using the Uninstall a program control panel (Windows 7). Go to the Start Menu. Select Control Panel ? Uninstall a Program.
If you are using Windows 8 or 10, simply drag your mouse pointer to the right edge of the screen, select Search from the list and search for "control panel".
Or you can right-click on a bottom left hot corner (formerly known as the Start button) and select Control panel from there.
3. When the Add/Remove Programs or the Uninstall a Program screen is displayed, scroll through the list of currently installed programs and remove the following:
- DNS Unlocker
- GoSave
- Extag
- SaveNewaAppz
- and any other recently installed application
Simply select each application and click Remove. If you are using Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8, click Uninstall up near the top of that window. When youre done, please close the Control Panel screen.
Remove adware related extensions from Google Chrome:
1. Click on Chrome menu button. Go to More Tools ? Extensions.
2. Click on the trashcan icon to remove DNS Unlocker, Extag, Gosave, HD-Plus 3.5 and other extensions that you do not recognize.
If the removal option is grayed out then read how to remove extensions installed by enterprise policy.
3. Then select Settings. Scroll down the page and click Show advanced settings.
4. Find the Reset browser settings section and click Reset browser settings button.
5. In the dialog that appears, click Reset. Thats it!
Remove adware related extensions from Mozilla Firefox:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox. Go to Tools Menu ? Add-ons.
2. Select Extensions. Click Remove button to remove DNS Unlocker, Extag, Gosave, MediaPlayerV1, HD-Plus 3.5 and other extensions that you do not recognize.
Remove adware related add-ons from Internet Explorer:
1. Open Internet Explorer. Go to Tools ? Manage Add-ons. If you have the latest version, simply click on the Settings button.
2. Select Toolbars and Extensions. Click Remove/Disable button to remove the browser add-ons listed above.
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