Originally Posted by TwinCities

What really prompted me to go down this road is my 9 year old son. I bought him a new laptop about 5 months ago. It was a Signature Series version from the Microsoft store. That means it doesn't come with typical bloatware or shitware and is completely clean. Within 72 hours he had 6 pieces of adware installed in Chrome hijacking his browser that took me two days and a combo of different apps to fully remove.

He loves Minecraft and likes downloading and installing new maps to play. Many of the actual downloads come through Adfly (or similar) and they put the real download links out of sight, instead, have fake "download now" ad banners leading to adware. It turns out since he is 9 and not seasoned to spot trickery, he was duped into clicking the wrong things and it hosed his computer for a few days so I essentially had enough and founds Ghostery. He has not had a problem since!!