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General Category => Computer questions => Topic started by: Judy Hunter on January 05, 2014, 09:57:59 am

Title: I am seeing red.
Post by: Judy Hunter on January 05, 2014, 09:57:59 am

On all the forum pages, there are many words in red with double underline. If my curser moves over them. It brings up an ad.
This happened once before but I forget how to get rid of it

Title: Re: I am seeing red.
Post by: daveo on January 05, 2014, 10:31:02 am

Judy
you have probably recently downloaded a free program or files, and un beknown to you it has installed a small program relating to shopping etc. Go to your control panel and open add/remove programs and have a look for it and uninstall
HTH
Dave

Title: Re: I am seeing red.
Post by: dirtrider73068 on January 05, 2014, 02:19:27 pm

Can also run malware program thats updated should catch it and remove it.

Title: Re: I am seeing red.
Post by: EIEIO on January 05, 2014, 03:06:23 pm

Judy - if you use Chrome for your browser, you can go to the Customize menu (3 short lines at the upper right corner of the boarder) and select  [Tools][Extensions] to see what has been added to your browser. If you see something you don't recognize, disable it for a week, then delete it. These extensions make Chrome do all kinds of fancy things (like translate to English) or can pick up words that lead to sales sites (as you have now).