Do Notepad popups represent a security risk or are they simply another way for spammers & marketers to annoy us? Because of a design flaw in Internet Explorer, Notepad popup windows can be displayed ...

Microsoft and Google have been waged in a years-long battle around Google Search, Bing, Chrome, and Edge. And it just continues, with Microsoft now pushing Bing heavily on Google Chrome users through ...

The update screen is a normal occurrence on Windows machines, so of course hackers are now manipulating it to sneak malware onto devices. The scheme, a recent iteration of a ClickFix attack, is ...

Companies call them prompts. Techies call them nags. Around the internet, the rest of us just call them pop-ups—and we hate them. Nevertheless, pop-up windows are an endless bane of online life, ...

Microsoft is still pushing users to upgrade to Windows 10, this time through a pop-up window that offers two options: Upgrade or upgrade. Microsoft has done so much to undo its negative image from ...

These malware-like pop-ups are gross. These malware-like pop-ups are gross. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years.