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Annoying underlined word advertisements

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Posted by: NetRanger

Ok...someone in my family must have downloaded somee dumb web enhancement. Now certain words are underlined and link to a page selling that word. for example, "vcr" is underlined (the line is thick orange btw) and it links to a site that sells vcrs. or a big complicated word links to a dictionary page etc. Anyone know what program does this? I want to get rid of it, but dont know who downloaded what program that may have done this.



Posted by: Daedleus

Sounds like Gator or some other crap scumware. Get AD-Aware to scan your system:

http://tomcoyote.com/lsindex.html

Go here too for some additional anti-spyware resources:

http://www.spychecker.com/download.html



Posted by: Spork Lover

Definitely sounds like gator.

Lavasoft Ad Aware will take care of gator.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/index.html



 
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