Microsoft knows how annoying it can be to have an adware program take over your browser and inject extra ads onto the webpages you’re visiting. That’s why it announced last week that it’s taking a much firmer stand against adware starting this summer by automatically blocking annoying adware programs unless a user gives them explicit permission to run. Microsoft says that it’s aiming to have a new system in place for its security products by July 1st this year that will automatically block any adware programs that don’t give users an easy way to close out advertisements, that don’t tell users the name of the program that is creating ads and that don’t give users an easy way to uninstall the
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