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Tricky Yahoo

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by daveleonard, Oct 8, 2016.

  1. daveleonard

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    No question or problem. I just noticed that Yahoo put a notice up on my pc advising to update Yahoo Messenger. But what it actually does is change your search engine to Yahoo from default. Just want to ask if others had this problem also. Thanks
     
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    I've been trying to warn people off Yahoo for ages.
    I don't know of any other company that has so many security issues.
    Do yourself a favour Dave and give anything Yahoo a wide berth.
     
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    Thanks starbuck for the headsup, will do just that.
     
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    Absolutely, Dave if you can switch to Gmail, do it, IMO it's a much better deal.
     
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    Hijacking your search engine is typical of the sleaze-bags at Yahoo.
     
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    Some of our 'Tools' will actually remove anything relating to Yahoo.
     
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    One would of though that after spending 4.8 billion US dollars that Verizon did on purchasing part of Yahoo things may have improved.
     
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    I changed all my yahoo over to gmail for games and the like. I use Juno for my mail personal mail and have another one acct at easy.com for a game. i actually did run some of the software advised by CHF and got rid of anything yahoo related. Of course then I had Google starting up by itself on my pc but I went to msconfig and took care of that. All these companies use deceptive means to get attention I believe. Ty
     
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