Email? People still use email? Even facebook is old these days - everybody has gone to snapchat.
I still have a yahoo account, mostly for when a website requires an email-based signup just to download a file. Sure, take my email account. Send me as many advertising emails as you want, I don't care.
As for news, most "news" sources post news clips that they know the masses will want to see. Yahoo is no different. Their news is selected and worded to attract readers. The more people they have clicking on links, the more advertising money they get. As Tintin said, mostly gossip.
What wrecked my moms once was firefox Internet explorer. Not as bad as my computer but it took her weeks to get hers cleared up.. mine we had to bring away and get it completely renewed
Was it firefox or internet explorer? Those are two different (and competing) web browsers.
And you can't get a virus from the news... Someone might have hacked your computer. Or you might have had a browser hijacking program.
As long as you don't want to save anything on your computer (pictures, music, document files or the like) you can simply google the name of your computer and "factory reinstall" and get instructions on how to reset your computer to the way it was when you bought it. Most computers come with a backup copy of the whole system on a small, protected partition. It will wipe out the WHOLE windows system and replace it with a fresh one. Anybody can do it, a child of four could do it. Basically you turn your computer on, dribble a certain key (for this Thinkpad I'm using it's F8) choose the option to wipe out windows and reinstall, and let the computer do its thing.