>>>Turned out he installed an Adobe Acrobat Reader update without un-checking the default opted-in extra garbage:
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>FWIW I installed Adobe Acrobat Reader yesterday. During the excessively verbose install there is one attempt to install a McAfee product that needs to be unchecked.
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>This attack sounds like the fallout from one of the download sites that requires you to install a small "downloader" that comes with all sorts of junk.

I also installed it (there was an update yesterday) and also unchecked extra stuff. Someone needs to be careful installing.

BTW, does anyone know how to get rid of ads in Skype? Is it because Skype is now part of MS or did I get malware (I ran Malware Bytes now quite regularly),

I don't use Skype often but when I do, I don't need to see Milwaukee Singles.