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RE: Welcome to McAfee Web Advisor popups...
June 4, 2017 at 4:40 pm
Uninstall the Web Advisor.
You have ABP, get a password manager (LastPass) and a decent AV (I like BitDefender), and you don't need it.
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RE: Welcome to McAfee Web Advisor popups...
June 4, 2017 at 4:48 pm
Technically, that image isn't actually a screenshot of my computer and I simply chose it because it looked like what I was going through. That said, I do have ABP, and I also have Malwarebytes. I have disabled Webadvisor for now (it won't allow me to uninstall it), and am currently looking for a comparable Antivirus add-on for Firefox that doesn't spam me with information I already know every time I turn on my browser and slow my computer down in the process.
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RE: Welcome to McAfee Web Advisor popups...
June 4, 2017 at 5:07 pm
It probably came with an Adobe Product, if you installed Flash you have to uncheck it as an option while installing.
I would just get an AV that has web protection, no need to have an addon. Those add-ons really bog down with tabbed browsing.
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RE: Welcome to McAfee Web Advisor popups...
June 4, 2017 at 5:23 pm
I don't even remember how it got added on. I had it ever since I upgraded my computer to Windows 10 and I suspect that it may have just come when the builders put 10 on it (I was a fairly late adopter, taking to it only after I decided to get a new laptop). I never really had any problems with it until this started happening.
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