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  • 20-12-2011 9:34pm
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    Otis Driftwood
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    Using beta so when I hover the cursor over the boards.ie in the top left to bring up post of the day etc there are 3 hyperlinks to some poxy survey spam thing to win an ipad,whats going on there?

    Is it intentional?


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    Boards.ie: Neil
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    I'm almost 100% certain that this isn't intentional, can you perhaps provide a screenshot, can you also please capture the full window just in case there's something else that's interfering.

    Cheers,
    Neil


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    Otis Driftwood
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    Cant get a screen shot atm but will do so in the morning.When I hover over any of the 3 hyperlinks

    1 is "Day" in thread of the day

    1 is "post" in post of the day

    1 is "new" in new forums

    a little vibrating box appears that is powered by "text enhance".

    Will do a screen grab from my work desk top in the morning.


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    Boards.ie: Danny
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    What browser and operating system are you using?

    I've tested Safari, Opera, Firefox and Chrome on Windows 7 and Mac OS X and there is no such behaviour. I also just checked the menu code, there's nothing like this in there. I believe this might be an addon for your browser that is keywording text and providing you with ads. See the first result from Google for Text Enhance


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    Boards.ie: Neil
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    Hmm to me that sounds like some adware/malware installed on the machine that you're currently on and will most likely be not installed on your work machine.

    Are the hyperlinks slightly greenish in colour and have a double underline? If so it's definitely adware and should scan your PC with relevant tools.

    I could also be totally barking up the wrong tree here as i'm not a windows user :).


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    coffee_cake
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    windows/chrome/beta nothing popping up for me


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    Boards.ie: Danny
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    Cheers for further confirmation bluewolf. Otis, I think it's safe to say you got some nasty software installed :) If you need assistance removing it I found the folks over in the Windows forum a great help when I pestered them many moons ago :)


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    Otis Driftwood
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    Coolio,Im using Chrome,the links are in blue with a single underline.

    I will do some debugging and let ye know,cheers!


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    amacachi
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    Those sound like the exact links that turn up on my friend's computer on Chrome when he's browsing facebook. I don't think it's facebook or boards that have the problem.


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    Otis Driftwood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,925 ✭✭✭Otis Driftwood


    De-bugged my laptop and they are gone.

    Thanks guys!

    :)


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