Re: If Florida weren't a peninsula...
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 11/8/2012, 5:14 am
Hanna, I think your computer has been infected with malware/spyware. I have examined the pages you emailed me about and nothing has changed on them since they were initially created and I can't find anything harmful on them now, so the only possible cause could have been something added maliciously through Google's ad code and I can't find anything about that happening, so it sounds like you have some kind of malware that is inserting links into the pages on your computer. The pages are delivered to your computer as they should be and then something on your computer is changing them to add the links. When you click the link the person who created the malware probably gets money for you clicking the link.

For example, in the post you mention from knuckle here:
https://canetalk.com/2012/11/1352335733_1352257068.shtml
The word "seasons" has no link. So you know, there are only five links in this message I am posting right now and each starts with http. There are no other links that should be appearing when you hover your mouse over any other text.

Does this happen on other sites? Try visiting other sites and see if links are inserted.



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Update: I just found a site that mentions the problem you have and someone suggested using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware which seemed to have worked on the particular person's computer. You may want to try it first:

http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

(I have never used it, though it is very popular.)

If you have any issues, let me know. I'd rather not post the link of the site that talks about the problem you mention as it has instructions for using another program that would not be good to use unless nothing else works.

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I recommend download something like Spybot - Search & Destroy to try and detect and remove whatever it is that is inserting the links:
http://download.cnet.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html

Or maybe:
http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

There are other programs here:

http://download.cnet.com/windows/anti-spyware/3150-8022_4-0.html

But I have not used many of the others.
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