I just responded to another forum question, and noticed that a lot of hyperlinks appeared in my repsonce, sending you off into hyperspace to advertisements. Where have they come from?
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Marj, just take a look below at both your reply, and my post. Your post has the word "noticed" underlined, and my post has the word "Australia" underlined. If you hover your mouse over it, it comes up with a box advertising a web site for newschannel8online
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It must be your computer as they are not underlined here. Nothing strange about any of the posts and they don't go to any links. Never heard of that happening before.
Marj, just take a look below at both your reply, and my post. Your post has the word "noticed" underlined, and my post has the word "Australia" underlined. If you hover your mouse over it, it comes up with a box advertising a web site for newschannel8online
Its not a virus, its malware. It drops cookies onto your system and then uses you as advertising etc. I don't think a virus checker picks it up, try this site- good info there too. www.malwarebytes.org
Its not a virus, its malware. It drops cookies onto your system and then uses you as advertising etc. I don't think a virus checker picks it up, try this site- good info there too. www.malwarebytes.org
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If it is putting cookies on your system he could also just clean out his cookie folder, as you say malwarebytes should also do the trick.
Folks I deal with this all the time (over 300 users), and while in the work environment I have to toe the company line, here I would recommend running AVG as your virus checker, just the free version, it does all you need. For malware download a copy of Malwarebytes, again the free version and run a scan occasionally.
Both these tools require regular updates, and if you are on a limited plan I would turn off the auto update, BUT make sure you remember to update whenever you have cheaper access (free wifi is good).
Thanks all, I am running Norton by Symantic. I will run a virus scan and try the Malware as well. Will let you know how i go, as rebooting did not do the trick. I will also empty my cookie jar.
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Thanks all, I am running Norton by Symantic. I will run a virus scan and try the Malware as well. Will let you know how i go, as rebooting did not do the trick. I will also empty my cookie jar.
try one at a time then you will know how to get rid of it next time, hope there is not a next time.
can you take a screenshot of what you are seeing? You should have a Prt Sc button and it would save the screen as a jpeg which you could upload and show us what is happening.
can you take a screenshot of what you are seeing? You should have a Prt Sc button and it would save the screen as a jpeg which you could upload and show us what is happening.
I think he is just getting a word underlined and is able to click on it, it then takes him to a web site, I think that is what is happening.
Thanks everyone for your patience. Having now left the workforce, where I had a very handy IT colleage, I often find it hard to work out what is going on, but where there is a will, there is a way.
I followed the advice and ran my virus scan, which showed up nothing un-towards (which I expected) I have now found where the cookie monster lives, and sent him on his way. The hyperlinks have now gone with him!
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