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 Post subject: Random links
PostPosted: Mon 16 Jan, 2012 - 4:24 am 
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Anyone else been seeing random words randomly have links? I have been seeing it a lot.
It look like this. As you can see random words are highlighted and they lead to nowhere.


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 Post subject: Re: Random links
PostPosted: Mon 16 Jan, 2012 - 4:40 am 
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i think it depends on what browser you use. I don't have that and i'm using firefox

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 Post subject: Re: Random links
PostPosted: Mon 16 Jan, 2012 - 4:43 am 
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It's some advertisement thing, I have it on my PCs, but not my mac, I think it's called Text Enhancement

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 Post subject: Re: Random links
PostPosted: Mon 16 Jan, 2012 - 5:18 am 
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I get the text enhancement thing too. I use google chrome..

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 Post subject: Re: Random links
PostPosted: Mon 16 Jan, 2012 - 5:38 am 
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Use Firefox


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 Post subject: Re: Random links
PostPosted: Mon 16 Jan, 2012 - 11:48 am 
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Yeah, those links are not in the post. It does seem like you have a plugin overriding keywords and turning them into hyperlinks, which you may or may not want to disable. Otherwise, just ignore them. :3


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 Post subject: Re: Random links
PostPosted: Mon 16 Jan, 2012 - 6:11 pm 
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it adds extra emphasis on what you are saying :D

not only do they get banned they get banned

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 Post subject: Re: Random links
PostPosted: Mon 16 Jan, 2012 - 6:50 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Random links
PostPosted: Mon 16 Jan, 2012 - 7:56 pm 
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The source of your problem can be found here.

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 Post subject: Re: Random links
PostPosted: Tue 17 Jan, 2012 - 1:18 am 
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There was no problem with that link


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 Post subject: Re: Random links
PostPosted: Tue 17 Jan, 2012 - 10:44 pm 
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Ah ok Ty guys, I ran a virus scan an a few cookies showed up. After using my amazing computer skilz (pressing the delete cookie button) everything went back to normal:)

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 Post subject: Re: Random links
PostPosted: Tue 17 Jan, 2012 - 11:55 pm 
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the link chris made linked to the same thing as your belgeran except it had a typo in the browser, it had http// instead of http:// :P

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 Post subject: Re: Random links
PostPosted: Wed 18 Jan, 2012 - 2:46 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Random links
PostPosted: Wed 18 Jan, 2012 - 4:23 am 
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meh all i got was a bright yellow page with norton logos saying site blocked: contained malicious stuffs. Idk nuttin too big d:

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 Post subject: Re: Random links
PostPosted: Wed 18 Jan, 2012 - 4:24 am 
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ooooooooh further investigation: any site that is just http// norton automatically thinks it's bad. haha silly norton

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