Recent content by gddeluca

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    Pop ups - how to remove

    OK, I have that set to "Ask when a site wants to show notifications (Recommended) And I never grant any permissions. BUT --- When I click on Manage Exceptions - there's a whole bunch of exceptions, NONE of which I ever agreed to! (Including Toms Guides). So somehow these 'exceptions' are...
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    Pop ups - how to remove

    Looked promising, except when I go into flags (Chrome 55) there is no "Enable Rich Notifications" setting ;-(( It sure looks Chrome related, as it popped up this morning as I started Chrome up. If so, surely something about Tom's Guides would show somewhere in Chrome settings / Extensions /...
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    Pop ups - how to remove

    I'm using Chrome, and as I added to the post, it's not a browser popup, it's a popup coming from the taskbar itself. So SOMETHING is running in the background and issuing the popup. If I click on the popup, it opens a URL in a new browser window. As I said, this is approaching a virus/trojan...
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    Pop ups - how to remove

    Really? You think I haven't done that already? If you really have some idea, then post a link to it, don't just say "Go search Google", that's a totally useless reply. This is NOT a popup in the Browser, this is appearing as a popup from the system tray. George
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    Pop ups - how to remove

    How to I stop Toms Guide from popping up from the task bar with items it thinks I'm interested in. I never asked for this, I just want it to stop. There seems to be nothing related in Add/Remove programs, so this is running very close to being a virus/trojan. George