Meta: Advertising in threads [Not us; it's a sign of malware]
Is anyone else getting words in a thread that are blue and underlined that pop-up an ad if you place the cursor over them?
Ed-S: The OP has malware on his browser. If you've seen this you probably do too. I'd delete this thread but a lot of people picked something up recently from trying to download a player for game streams and not being careful about what got installed. That is the most likely ingress.
October 31st, 2013 at 6:52 PM ^
nope
sounds like it could be some ad-ware
October 31st, 2013 at 6:52 PM ^
October 31st, 2013 at 6:55 PM ^
Your browser has added a malicious plugin, sometimes called a browser hijack. Look in your Add-Ons to find which one looks out of place, then go into safemode and delete the registry.
November 1st, 2013 at 12:28 AM ^
November 1st, 2013 at 7:09 AM ^
I picked something like this up from Front row sports about a month ago. I googled what to do and had to copy and paste something into C: from safemode to get rid of it.
October 31st, 2013 at 7:05 PM ^
October 31st, 2013 at 7:21 PM ^
stop watching so much porn...
October 31st, 2013 at 7:28 PM ^
October 31st, 2013 at 8:51 PM ^
Hold on now, it's not the watching that is causing the problems. It's the downloading from the internet. The key is to get it from a reliable source.
/s I like making my own...I'll show myself out now
October 31st, 2013 at 7:41 PM ^
Did you use a memory stick given to you by a Russian ambassador at a recent G-8 Summit? I had the same issue.
Speaking of advertising in threads, I'm selling and buying vital organs if anyone has any interest.
October 31st, 2013 at 8:33 PM ^
Would you perhaps be willing to trade the organs for stock in a startup firm? All you need to do is go to a site that I can provide and answer a few basic questions about your bank account.
October 31st, 2013 at 10:35 PM ^
November 1st, 2013 at 12:33 AM ^
November 1st, 2013 at 1:32 PM ^
What if I was looking to buy a gallbladder or a spleen or an appendix? Have any of those?
October 31st, 2013 at 7:44 PM ^
It was something called DropDownCoupon and I had to clear my web history. I guess asian women's feet don't agree with my Dell.
October 31st, 2013 at 10:42 PM ^
Or you have an Asian girlfriend who uses your Dell with her feet?
October 31st, 2013 at 8:52 PM ^
Step 1: Check your browser extensions and remove the malicious ones that were added.
Step 2: Install a free malware like Superantispyware or Spybot.
Step 3: Delete your signature.
October 31st, 2013 at 9:12 PM ^
I had something like this recently. Malware Bytes cleaned it up nicely.
November 1st, 2013 at 3:34 PM ^
But I have had pop up ads that fill the whole front page of the site. And I haven't downloaded any gaming anything. (Trying to remember, but it might actually be popping up on my iPad). Only places I really read the site anymore are on the tablet and at work, where nothing else is being downloaded. And it's only this site. So I'm not sure that the answer really covers it all.