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

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

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

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