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« on: December 08, 2011, 08:19:35 pm »
What the hell is happening here? The last day and a half a ton of words within my forum have suddenly turned into pop-up links. It's one thing to have a big banner flashing in the center of the Forum which I'm okay with, but it's another thing when words/text are now being turned into links. I find this very annoying as do the rest of the members.

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Re: Pop-Up Links
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2011, 08:24:23 pm »
Give me an example thread.
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« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2011, 08:26:06 pm »
Under Hardware, check iPad in the description. Also, it's everywhere with Admin as well. Not just the front page.
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Re: Pop-Up Links
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2011, 08:31:13 pm »
Not seeing any of the links.
Do you see any of this forum? You would have the same ads that this board has as well.
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Re: Pop-Up Links
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2011, 08:34:05 pm »
Screen shot of AD as of 20 seconds ago.

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Re: Pop-Up Links
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2011, 08:37:30 pm »
I need to know the source though like the click itself i you can get me a hyperlink
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Re: Pop-Up Links
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2011, 08:41:55 pm »
Did some research it sounds like you are infected by malware or another program installed that enabled those ads
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Hello, we apologize that you are having trouble with the TextEnhance product. If you are seeing these links, then a web publisher has decided to offer them to you. If you would like to opt-out of seeing these links, visit: http://optout.textsrv.com/optout.php

For FAQs and additional help on removing Text Enhance, please visit http://support.text-enhance.com
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Re: Pop-Up Links
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2011, 08:43:30 pm »
Am I suppose to click on one of those links or what? I didn't install anything new to forum or my computer.

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« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2011, 08:45:56 pm »
Well that's what their support says. Not sure how it works really just did a search on google for text enhance.
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« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2011, 08:47:45 pm »
To me it sounds like an automated fishing link and will not go any further with regards to clicking on that link till I get a confirmation that it's legit.

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Re: Pop-Up Links
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2011, 05:36:34 pm »
If it is a malware infection, you'll want to run a scan with: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4716-malwarebytes-anti-malware.html
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« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2011, 05:43:43 pm »
I already ran MalewareBytes and it took care of the problem.

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« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2011, 05:48:01 pm »
Well I guess problem solved? Also, It's easy to tell if an advertisement is fake and I think this one is a scam.
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« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2011, 05:49:57 pm »
I'm just trying to figure out how it got attached since I didn't download or open anything that would plant trojans and whatnot. I dunno..... ???

 

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