Fake Virus Alert Popups with Edge browser

Start Edge, click the three dots in the upper right corner, then look in the "Open Microsoft Edge with" box and see if "Previous pages" is selected. If so, change it to something else.

Ben

Ben Myers said:

Start Edge, click the three dots in the upper right corner, then look in the "Open Microsoft Edge with" box and see if "Previous pages" is selected. If so, change it to something else.

Ben

Hi Ben. Ive already checked that and "Open Microsoft Edge with" box is set to Start Page. That doesn't seem to make any difference if you forcibly close Edge down with Task Manager. The next time you open Edge it opens with the previously opened Tab which will probably include the tab and also the Fake Virus Alert popup

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Thanks for the offer but Im going to see what happens if and when I eventually do get one of those Fake popups. I'll see how the ALT + F4 combination works. Also Ive seen that you can right click on other open Tabs at the very top of the Edge screen and I see there are two other options- Close other Tabs and Close Tabs to the right. The main thing is that you aren't supposed to click on any of the boxes in the Fake Popup window when it appears as doing so can activate malware but you still have to completely close its window down somehow. Im wondering if any of those options might do exactly the same thing as closing down the Edge process using Task Manager achieves

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Bastet said:

The tab should have an X on it, it is this you need to use to close the window. If you’re unsure then that’s fine.
I would also try clearing the cache & cookies.

Sorry mate. Ive just been rereading all the posts in this thread and Ive just realised that I must have misread your advice last week. You were suggesting closing from Tab at the top of the Edge browser screen and not the close box on the Fake Virus Alert window..sorry for my confusion! Also Ive now seen that you can right click on any of the other open Tabs at the very top of the Edge screen and I see there are two other options- Close other Tabs and Close Tabs to the right. Im wondering if your suggestion of closing the Fake Virus Alert from its Tab by clicking on its X or any of these options might do exactly the same thing as closing down the Edge process using Task Manager achieves.
The main thing is that you aren't supposed to click on any of the boxes in the Fake Popup window when it appears as doing so can activate malware but you still have to completely close its window down somehow.