2013-01-05, 17:24 | Link #1 |
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What's with all the unintentional hyperlinks?
I've noticed lately that a lot of the posts I make now contain unintentional hyperlinks.
Words like "Christmas", "money", "shopping", "younger", "deals", etc... tend to bring these up somehow (I wonder how many of those words will become hyperlinks in this post, lol). I don't necessarily mind this, but I'm curious about what's causing it.
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2013-01-05, 18:30 | Link #4 |
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Right now, I'm logged in. I'm almost always automatically logged in to Anime Suki.
Every post on this thread looks fine. Except that for Archon_Wing's post I'm seeing the word "software" underlined, and it links to " justcloud.com ". It's nothing widespread, but it is a noticeable change that I've only noticed recently. Like in the last few days. Edit: Woah, that's weird. Now "software" looks fine in Archon's post!
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2013-01-05, 19:21 | Link #7 | |
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2013-01-06, 08:38 | Link #9 |
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Here is one thing to try: log out of the forum, and check the double underlined green links (the ads that show when you are not logged in). Maybe use another browser for a moment if you can't see them (again make sure you are not logged in).
Compare these ads (which appear when you hover your mouse over the double-underlined green links) with the ones you saw earlier when logged in. Do they look the same? If so... odd. I won't repeat it... but logged in you shouldn't see them. Try clearing your browser cache, maybe that might help in that case. If they are not similar (not double-underlined, not green links, completely different or simply lacking floating box when you hover over the links) then the problem is likely not related to the forum but your PC. In that case the problem might also appear on other websites. The likely cause is some kind of malware, which could be as simple as a wonky plugin in your browser. |
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2013-01-11, 08:56 | Link #11 | |
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The best way to find out if that is the case (since the person in question is using firefox) is to start firefox with all addons disabled, and if there aren't any links like that then it's just a process of elimination to find the offending addon. |
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2013-01-18, 11:48 | Link #13 | |
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Flash is fairly standard plugin from Adobe. It may cause instability (I have to kill flash on occasion to unfreeze Firefox) but it is not malicious (as in show links that should not be there). What plugins did you have installed? |
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2013-01-18, 18:06 | Link #14 |
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Flash and Firefox sometimes don't play nice together. There was a version from last year that had security flaws and performance issues, but it was patched shortly. However if you haven't updated in a while, that could have been it.
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2013-01-20, 20:49 | Link #16 | |
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If you're logged-in, there should be no links, even in Chrome.
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2013-01-21, 08:51 | Link #17 | |
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Try starting Chrome with all extensions disabled (or disable them manually if that isn't possible) and see if the links come back which just leaves the usual process of elimination to find the offending addon (that is if the links vanish). |
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2013-02-10, 14:11 | Link #20 |
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Are you sure you were already logged in when you saw them? I happened to have started using Firefox on a machine where I had never used it before. Until I logged in, the links popped up everywhere. Once I logged in, they disappeared.
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