Random underlining

[Tasha]

I am wondering if anyone else has noticed this (or am I going crazy?)? SInce yesterday I have seen a lot of posts with blue double underlining on a word. It is a random word and sometimes in a quote but not on the post the quote is from. It is really strange.

 

[Hayley90]

is it where a word is highlighted and an advert pops up when you hover over it?? i think that happened before and it was a glitch with adverts. normally they can only be seen if you arent logged in i thought x

 

[Tasha]

Sort I just took some screen shots.

See in your siggy, sandpits is double underlined. Nothing happens when I hover over it but when I click on it, it takes me to this page.

 

[Tasha]

ANd now my click has it

 

[jen1604]

I got this the other day when I was posting in natural parenting.I posted about nappies (of the cloth sort) and it underlined it and linked to an ad about disposable nappies. I was a bit outraged

 

[Tasha]

I got this the other day when I was posting in natural parenting.I posted about nappies (of the cloth sort) and it underlined it and linked to an ad about disposable nappies. I was a bit outraged

naughty adverts.

I am not sure if I have said, but congratulations Jen

 

[jen1604]

I got this the other day when I was posting in natural parenting.I posted about nappies (of the cloth sort) and it underlined it and linked to an ad about disposable nappies. I was a bit outraged

naughty adverts.

I am not sure if I have said, but congratulations Jen

Thanks Tasha

 

[Hayley90]

yeah its the stupid blimmin adverts again. Lol at it linking to sandpits

at least its not highlighting rude words

 

[Tasha]

disappointing that is, might just have to write lots and lots of rude words in the hope it links me to one

 

[I Love Lucy]

I had something like this not too long ago and it was actually because of one of my extensions on Google Chrome. A CodecC extension to be exact, once it was disabled though the problem disappeared. Perhaps you might be having the same issue?

 

[Tasha]

I just did a virus scan, and had 105 tracking cookies

 

[blueskai]

Ooft! That's a lot!

xo

 

[zanDark]

I had something like this not too long ago and it was actually because of one of my extensions on Google Chrome. A CodecC extension to be exact, once it was disabled though the problem disappeared. Perhaps you might be having the same issue?

this

I removed all the extensions I had on chrome and got rid of it!

 

[dizzy65]

ive noticed that lots too

 

[Tasha]

I'm on IE and don't think I have any extenstions

 

[Buffaloed]

I just did a virus scan, and had 105 tracking cookies

Get the free version of Malwarebytes and do a scan.
https://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free

A lot of this crap is caused by what they call BHO's (Browser Helper Objects).

 

[Tasha]

Thank you so much buffaloed. I am just doing that now. I have Norton but it doesnt seem to be getting rid of the issue.

 

[Tasha]

About 5 minutes in and over 2000 errors

 

[blueskai]

Gosh I might download that myself bet mine has loads

xo