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Why is Edge sending me dangerous stuff that could put my laptop at risk? Windows 10

Anonymous
2021-11-05T18:11:21+00:00

Why on earth is Edge sending me dangerous stuff like this, putting my laptop at ris.?

I've searched using Bing and found this review:

"https://www.scam-detector.com/validator/crackthisgame-com-review

crackthisgame.com Review. The VLDTR® tool gives crackthisgame.com the absolute lowest rank on the platform: 0.4.It signals that the business could be defined by the following tags: High-Risk. Phishing. Beware. We are pretty sure about our rating as we also partner with a few other high-tech, fraud-prevention companies that found the same issues."

Can this be escalated to the Forum Owner please? He/she needs to be made aware of this dangerous stuff.

PS As I'm creating this, I've just received another "Personal Offer". How in Hades can I block them?

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DaveM121 881.2K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2021-11-05T18:46:37+00:00

Hi again Taffy,

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

Open Edge

Click the 3 dots at the top right of Edge and open Settings

In the search box in Edge Settings, type notification

On the right, you will see a list of websites that Edge allows to create notifications, you can select one of those, click the 3 dots beside the site, and on the resulting page, you can block notifications from that site

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-11-06T06:55:31+00:00

    The previous Forum Owner was 'Ben the CM'

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/profile/00a38d63-ecaf-4ad4-89bb-83fe1ede2c48

    But I can't find who it is now.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-11-06T06:48:46+00:00

    PS I still feel that whoever is in charge of Edge should do something to black the pop-up. Some users here will just click on the pop-up and will then have to suffer the consequences.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-11-06T06:45:26+00:00

    Thanks Dave. I've done that but it was strange not seeing an "Enter" button!

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