>>>>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.
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>>LOL. Apparently you can add apps.skype.com to your restricted sites to block the ads- but also the Skype home screen.
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>>FWIW, the biggest intrusion I see at the moment is the Windows 10 nag icon/popup. I remove the culprit Windows updates and make the recommended registry settings and the nag goes away... only to return a day or ten later.
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>I don't see a nag popup (using Windows 7), but the Windows Updates stopped showing me that there is something to update at all. Two times in the row I manually checked if I had updates (last time it was 58 new updates). I also need to make sure to uncheck that update to Windows 10.

If you're no longer getting Windows Updates, check its settings in Control Panel. If it's set to not do any updates, and you're unable to change the setting, that's a common sign of a malware infection. One exception to that might be if your computer is domain-joined and updates are tightly controlled and only manually applied across the domain.

Protip: if you can't get Windows Update to work, phone support from Microsoft for that issue is always free. I believe that's true even if you have an OEM machine (Dell, Lenovo etc.).