What it takes to close Microsoft Edge (⏩ 2x)

Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.one⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

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I accidentally clicked Microsoft Edge on my work computer with Windows 10 and couldn’t close it — it just keeps reopening. It takes File Shredder to stop it from opening again, at least until the computer restarts.

Notice the ads, most are extremely sketchy (my frequent reload in previous takes caused the ad server + my work VPN to rate limit me):

China warns: %user.currency% is dead! (Yeah, sure. Obvious propaganda. Generic pictures or faked images of a worthless banknote giveaway.)
63-year-old figured out! (Does not say what but a pic of obviously young-looking feet.)
Make boatloads of money with AI! (aka auto-trade very uncompetitive options, no guarantees on withdrawals of any wins)
Save money using solar! (The company is legitimate but the deal on panels is probably not great)
Buy yourself a great new FPCEILPTBSP! (You can’t tell what it is and neither can we! (Apparently TV wall mount))
Losing hair?
Millionaire has genius method you can try (but give us money first, making his pic transparent so we can put him in front of %user.country.flag% was difficult)
Game! Yay! (Microtransactions galore!)
Get EVERYTHING in your car fixed (by a stock photo mechanic!)

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Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Definitely something wrong with your computer, not normal behavior

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stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is textbook browser takeover activity. Is your enterprise level world renown AV setup correctly?

Who is it by the way. Just curious

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- Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ding ding ding! OP drank the Kool Aid and felt like they needed to completely remove Edge, they downloaded a tool made to bait gullible users and they’re now stuck with a malware and won’t admit it.
  
  The question OP needs to ask themselves is, why ask for opinions when they will ignore all of them?
  
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  - ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Nope, the tool is FOSS MSEdgeRedirect, very well known and praised. I think it’s purely my config mistake with no third-party wrongdoing and I will live with the consequence of Edge being slightly more annoying whenever I accidentally click it.
    
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- ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Well, my default browser is Firefox and ~~EdgeRemover~~ (oops, misremembered the name) MSEdgeRedirect (which is FOSS of course, would not install such thing otherwise) does work, in a way – all Help pages, Start Menu searches etc. get redirected to Firefox and DuckDuckGo. I thought it would prevent Edge from opening at all. I don’t think it’s a browser hijacker.
  
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  - stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And I’m pretty sure you have no idea what you’re talking about, and I have a career with this stuff.
    
    Figure it out yourself now smart ass.
    
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DrakeRichards@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Looks like this may be a known issue for some users.

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Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ah so you also have the fake “china says euro is dead” ads that promote a scam shitcoin. I thought it was a local scam only for my country. I always flag those ads but they always come back with a different URL. Zero control from Microsoft

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- ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I once got Top 7 Luxury Cruise in (Landlocked) Czech Republic from Microsoft. Also, The Flight Price From %user.location% (village of 200 people) To New York Will Surprise You
  
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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I dread it every time I open it by accident.
Task manager was faster than waiting + dialogs.

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- ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Well, Task Manager nor attempting to delete the executable normally helped in my case. Power deleting Edge (including WebView) is obviously a bad idea but faster than finding whatever mistake I made that led to this behavior. I can afford to do dumb stuff because the job is temporary, and I never downloaded any malware (according to VirusTotal) that would cause further problems.
  
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  - ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You downloaded a suspicious file of the Internet anyone can summit code to github and while that stuff does get reviewed alot of malcious stuff goes unnoticed that is executing code which is doing maclious things to your Web browser I’m a dumbass on the internet and even I know that’s a textbook piece of malware op
    
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  - Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Be aware that the new explorer.exe seems to be dependant on some parts on edge.
    I believe I saw flashes of edge in windows explorer during a crash
    
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