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Do You Get Posts With Yellow Lines Under Words?  
User currently offlineCapt.Picard From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Posted (11 years 7 months 1 hour ago) and read 834 times:

Is it just my PC, or are some of you finding certain words become underlined with a yellow bar after downloading any page with text on it?

Hovering the cursor over such a word brings up the link hand, although I don't want to click over the link in case it's a virus or something similar.

Words such as 'profit', 'capital', 'savings' and then random words such as 'anthrax' are all underlined with this enigmatic yellow bar.

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH MY COMPUTER? Help.......someone.

Cheers

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User currently offlineI Like To Fly From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 1188 posts, RR: 2
Reply 1, posted (11 years 7 months 1 hour ago) and read 814 times:

It is a type of advertising, companies are paying to have those words link to what they want. It is caused by you downloading a program, usually free, that also puts this software on your computer. I have never seen it, only heard people bitch about it, so I can't tell you how to get rid of it. But it is a borderline virus and hard to get rid of. Search the internet with something like http://www.google.com for instructions how to get rid of it. Entire websites exist on how to get rid of it, so it shouldn't be hard to find.

User currently offlineJaspike From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2008, 1 posts, RR: 2
Reply 2, posted (11 years 7 months ago) and read 813 times:

The only yellow bar I've ever seen is this:


Josh
 Smile/happy/getting dizzy

User currently offlineCapt.Picard From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (11 years 6 months 4 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 789 times:

Thanks much for the reply!

Regards

User currently offlineIainhol From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (11 years 6 months 4 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 776 times:

I used to have this problem, if I remember right it was Kazaa!
Iain

User currently offlineLowfareair From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (11 years 6 months 4 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 768 times:

Iainhol, do you mean the napster-like program? I never got those on my comp.
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