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2. Restore your browser to default settings - AOL Help

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   Restoring your browser's default settings will also reset your browser's security settings. A reset may delete other saved info like bookmarks, stored passwords, and your homepage. Confirm what info your browser will eliminate before resetting and make sure to save any info you don't want to lose. • Restore your browser's default settings in ...

3. Turn pop-ups off or on in your browser - AOL Help

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   If you click on links in a legitimate email and get a notice that link can't be opened, you will need to either temporarily turn off your pop-up blocker, or add AOL Mail to the list of sites you allow pop-ups from. While Internet Explorer may still work with some AOL products, it's no longer supported by Microsoft and can't be updated.

4. Inappropriate advertising on AOL

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   The third suggestion is optional, and is intended only to help supply meaningful malware-related information to AOL Information Security. 1. Scan your computer for viruses and malware. 2. Run the Microsoft Update Utility. 3. Perform an optional AOL Security Check. Scan your computer for viruses and malware. Note: Please check to see that your ...

5. Criticism of Yahoo - Wikipedia

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   Yahoo! has also been criticized for funding spyware and adware—advertising from Yahoo!'s clients often appears on-screen in pop-ups generated from adware that a user may have installed on their computer without realizing it by accepting online offers to download software to fix computer clocks or improve computer security, add browser enhancements, etc.

6. Adware - Wikipedia

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   The term adware is frequently used to describe a form of malware (malicious software) [23][24] which presents unwanted advertisements to the user of a computer. [25][26] The advertisements produced by adware are sometimes in the form of a pop-up, sometimes in an "unclosable window", and sometimes injected into web pages. [27][28] When the term ...

7. Malvertising - Wikipedia

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   Malvertising. Malvertising (a portmanteau of "malicious software (malware) advertising") is the use of online advertising to spread malware. [1] It typically involves injecting malicious or malware-laden advertisements into legitimate online advertising networks and webpages. [2] Because advertising content can be inserted into high-profile and ...