Windows 10: unwanted ad

I went to a website about two weeks ago and now every time I am online there is an ad from that site on my screen. Is there a way to eliminate it?

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Unwanted Ads

Hi Nicolle -

Unfortunately you cannot mitigate the ads on Yahoo pages including Mailbox with popup blockers. They spend a lot of money programming their site to defeat popup blockers since it's how they make their money with those display ads - the reason you have to subscribe
to Pro to even get rid of the ad to the right of the Inbox.

What works best to defeat this is to use WIndows 10 Mail which will sync all of your webmail like Yahoo into an ad-free larger inbox with a huge ad-free reading pane, gives all the functions of the Yahoo Mail including your folders, allows you to set the sync
for as much history as you want in your Inbox or folders, and generally works great to merge all of your web mailboxes into the same Inbox or keep them separated.

Here's how to get started:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2488072,00...

I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and let us know how it goes. I'll keep working with you until this is resolved.

 

Unwanted Ads

Hello,

I have the pop up blocker set on.. however Yahoo ads keep appearing at the bottom left corner of my screen.. it appears when I am looking at items to potentially buy. How do I stop Yahoo ads???

 

Download the free version of SuperAntiSpyware run it....that should remove it.
SUPERAntiSpyware | Remove Malware | Remove Spyware - AntiMalware, AntiSpyware, AntiAdware!

 

Check the Programs & Features for anything new like "Wajan"! When not having the system protections running during a search a few weeks back I was suddenly getting a popup for 6 dating sites out of nowhere when first arriving here! When putting the software back on having needed it turned off for a period of time since av softwares tend interfere with some projects at times the Wajan ad generator was slipped on like any ordinary app where Windows Defender didn't notice a thing.

When the av software ran the initial scan it immediately found traces only of something "Wajan" later found to be an app with the uninstall option! This seems to be the new tactic being used lately since av protections have been updated to quickly find bots as well as other trojans. If you see that particular name you know right where to find it!

 

AdwCleaner
ZHPCleaner

Give these two a try...

PS - Also Malwarebytes Antimalware -> Malwarebytes | Free Anti-Malware & Internet Security Software

 

If what I suspect is what went on you can try 1000 or more and still not see it removed! It simply will not be detected as any form of malware! That's how these newer bugs are being written to be slipped past without notice!

 

You may also have to completely reset your browsers, clear cache, and possibly remove all Flash cookies (Adobe flash manager has to be done online).

 

Clearing the history and deleting the offline content won't hurt any! You will simply need to resign in again fresh at each site being the only item once that is seen to. But from the description the popup generator type slip past your notice type bombshell was what got dropped on you. Your av program will likely find a few faint traces of something with a name but not able to do anything else since the app is subtle enough to get past any typical av or bug removers.