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Hi all,
I recently noticed a whole lot of underlined links in every webpage I visit. These are bogus links that just take me to some advertising site. Annoying isn't the word for it. I've done a little research and came to the conclusion that I have some sort of adware or spyware on my computer. I ran Ad-Aware and it found several critters, which it removed. But I could run Ad-Aware again a half hour later, and it will find another one. According to Spybot, there are no more spies on the computer, and according to Norton, there are no viruses. But clearly there's something causing these annoying false links. I upgraded to IE7 yesterday, naively thinking that would fix the problem, but it didn't. I'd sure appreciate some help with this issue. Thanks for your help. Danno |
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I see you already posted to OE General, so I need not point you in that
direction. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Danno" wrote in message ... Hi all, I recently noticed a whole lot of underlined links in every webpage I visit. These are bogus links that just take me to some advertising site. Annoying isn't the word for it. I've done a little research and came to the conclusion that I have some sort of adware or spyware on my computer. I ran Ad-Aware and it found several critters, which it removed. But I could run Ad-Aware again a half hour later, and it will find another one. According to Spybot, there are no more spies on the computer, and according to Norton, there are no viruses. But clearly there's something causing these annoying false links. I upgraded to IE7 yesterday, naively thinking that would fix the problem, but it didn't. I'd sure appreciate some help with this issue. Thanks for your help. Danno |
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Right Bruce... sorry about my error
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... I see you already posted to OE General, so I need not point you in that direction. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Danno" wrote in message ... Hi all, I recently noticed a whole lot of underlined links in every webpage I visit. These are bogus links that just take me to some advertising site. Annoying isn't the word for it. I've done a little research and came to the conclusion that I have some sort of adware or spyware on my computer. I ran Ad-Aware and it found several critters, which it removed. But I could run Ad-Aware again a half hour later, and it will find another one. According to Spybot, there are no more spies on the computer, and according to Norton, there are no viruses. But clearly there's something causing these annoying false links. I upgraded to IE7 yesterday, naively thinking that would fix the problem, but it didn't. I'd sure appreciate some help with this issue. Thanks for your help. Danno |
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The underlined links are an advertising feature that many web page
creators include to earn some money. You're not the only one who is annoyed by them, but they are legitimate nontheless. --- Ted Zieglar "Backup is a computer user's best friend." Danno wrote: Hi all, I recently noticed a whole lot of underlined links in every webpage I visit. These are bogus links that just take me to some advertising site. Annoying isn't the word for it. I've done a little research and came to the conclusion that I have some sort of adware or spyware on my computer. I ran Ad-Aware and it found several critters, which it removed. But I could run Ad-Aware again a half hour later, and it will find another one. According to Spybot, there are no more spies on the computer, and according to Norton, there are no viruses. But clearly there's something causing these annoying false links. I upgraded to IE7 yesterday, naively thinking that would fix the problem, but it didn't. I'd sure appreciate some help with this issue. Thanks for your help. Danno |
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