Is it just me - words appearing as hotlinks?

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Is it just me - words appearing as hotlinks?

Post by splitimage » Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:41 am

This just started happenning to me today, so I'm not sure if it's BUS or something wrong with my computer - I did run a complete virus scan, and it says my computer is clean. I'm seeing random words in messages appearing in orange and underlined, and when I click on them, an ad pops up?

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Re: Is it just me - words appearing as hotlinks?

Post by Jomomma » Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:45 am

Did you recently download something that may have had a search bar or other search function attached to it? If you did you may not even know. I had that problem a while ago and went through programs and got rid of a bunch of stuff. I would check your programs first. Also, what browser are you using?
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Re: Is it just me - words appearing as hotlinks?

Post by kiwi33 » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:07 am

No problems here with either Chrome or Firefox running under Windows 7 Pro.

A quick consultation with Dr Google suggests that you might have picked up a bad cookie from somewhere, especially if "Text Enhance" appears in the ads that you are seeing.

The info in this link might help you to sort it; http://modelsteam.myfreeforum.org/archi ... 51696.html .

Edited to add; there is a step-by-step set of instructions for getting rid of it here; http://botcrawl.com/how-to-remove-text-enhance/ .
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Re: Is it just me - words appearing as hotlinks?

Post by splitimage » Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:43 pm

Thanks Jo and Kiwi.

Will work on cleaning up my computer later today.

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Re: Is it just me - words appearing as hotlinks?

Post by splitimage » Mon Aug 13, 2012 2:34 am

Thanks again Jo and Kiwi,

It took me some time, but finally disabling a couple of add-on's that had been downloaded when I installed Firefox, fixed the problem.

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