Several advertisements are circulating the internet concerning the Windows PC Repair tool. The adware creates pop-ups that promote the Windows PC Repair ads via specific websites. If you open the Edge browser and type in “edge://apps” you should see them installed there as well.Does your browser display Windows PC Repair pop-ups? These pop-ups might occur on all major browsers like Google Chrome or Internet Explorer, and they are generated by malicious software referred to as Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) or adware.

If you try to uninstall them, you’ll get a prompt asking if you want to remove the app from Microsoft Edge. If you head over to Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features, you should see all of the apps on that list. And it turns out that all of them are actually web shortcuts for Edge. Each of the apps is listed as version 1.0 with the same installation date and no size information. Image source: gHacksĪfter analyzing each of the apps, gHacks discovered that the publisher is just the name of the app (“Outlook,” “Word,” etc.), instead of Microsoft Corporation. Ads for Office apps are being automatically installed on Windows 10 PCs. Unfortunately, without an official explanation from Microsoft, you need to do some digging to find out if the apps are safe. As advanced as malware has become in recent years, Windows 10 users would be forgiven if they assumed these mysterious, unwanted applications were malicious in nature.

First of all, Microsoft never announced that it would be placing these ads on the Start menu. As gHacks explains, there are a number of issues at play here.

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