Microsoft Solitaire and Casual Games

Nearly all apps, especially those like games, connect to website back-ends today in order to display the advertisements that are being used to pay for the free versions of these to remain available.

Unfortunately, it's also relatively common for a few of these advertising networks to abuse their access to consumer devices by reselling their access to other less reputable ad networks that provide this to criminal advertising organizations to distribute their malvertising content instead.

Based on your description of the redirection by the gaming app, I suspect that's what's truly happening, most likely also based on your own past browsing habits which are regularly resold throughout this same complex system of advertisers and networks.

The most common way that people try to deal with this issue today is via browser-based Ad Blocker extensions, though these basically do the same things that the combination of a few Windows Privacy settings related to advertising and the Microsoft Edge browser - Tracking Protection found at the links below do as well.

Learn about tracking prevention in Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Support

View your data on the privacy dashboard - Microsoft Support

General privacy settings in Windows - Microsoft Support

Disabling the Windows Advertising ID, Targeted Advertising and setting the Edge browser Tracking Protection at least at the default 'Balanced', or possibly the 'Strict' level has a similar effect of appearing to websites as an Ad Blocker, though the browser extensions which do this typically have a finer, or at least simpler, level of control over which specific websites are allowed to do what regarding advertising.

Rob

Hi Bradley,

My name is Igor, it's a pleasure for me to help others and I'll do all my best to help you.

This IP belongs to Webair Internet Development Company Inc. (WAIR) located in New York and was registered in 2010.

Microsoft uses many third-party servers to to provide servicing for a huge number of requests to its data.

You may ask your anti-virus support for the clarification why this site is identified as fraud risk.

Thanks for responding Rob. I'm surprised that Microsoft would do this with their games, it seems like something that a cheaper outfit would do. However, I'm not too worried about this as my anti-virus blocks this connection consistently. Also, I never use Microsoft Edge. Thanks again Rob, and have a good day.

The fraud may come from some other Webair clients.

And sorry, I do not relay on similar antivirus warnings; antivirus vendors may be not trustful enough sometimes. E.g., Avast includes not safe component to its product.

And please read https://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/01/disable-yo...

Note: This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it.

Thank you for responding Igor. I searched the IP Address in Google and received the same information as you did about the Webair company. However, some of the results did warn of fraud risk. I was surprised because I didn't expect this from a Microsoft game app. I'm not too worried though because my anti-virus consistently blocks the connection. Thanks again and have a good day.