green links to ads

ugo.santalucia

Just noticed them now in the main index pages... you scroll over them and they open a pop up window with some promoted story...

The last straw? These adverts and promoted stories palaver is going a bit too far IMO... people will get bored of being bombarded with this censored and will move elsewhere and I have the feeling it is already happening... stop it before it's too late, thanks!

samgeorgeuk

Hi

Could you show man an eaxmple of these green links please?

sam

ugo.santalucia

Yes:

Training, Fitness and Health
When drugs don't work: training and health tips!

Yesterday the word "work" was green and subtitled and it was a link to a featured story, which opened as a pop up just by passing over it without clicking. Now it seems to have gone

redvee

I had similar on another website I used to frequent but it was double green lines under certain words so more ad related and IIRC I got rid of the lines by uninstalling some extension that Firefox had, my browser of choice at the time.

ugo.santalucia

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19633076#p19633076]redvee[/url] wrote:

I had similar on another website I used to frequent but it was double green lines under certain words so more ad related and IIRC I got rid of the lines by uninstalling some extension that Firefox had, my browser of choice at the time.

Ah... yes I am using Firefox and the lines might be double, can't remember

veronese68

I use Firefox at home so I'll see if I notice anything on that.

nicklouse

nothing on the old IE on here but i do get them sometimes on other sites!

bompington

Some websites have this kind of thing, but it can also be caused by a browser extension installed by adware - you should check.

ugo.santalucia

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19633142#p19633142]bompington[/url] wrote:

Some websites have this kind of thing, but it can also be caused by a browser extension installed by adware - you should check.

You clearly over rate me...

imatfaal

http://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-text-enhance-virus/

Sounds very like text enhance adware - you installed any freeware from the net recently?

samgeorgeuk

I think I understand what you mean.

Could you screen shot it for me please? when you see it again.

veronese68

I don't get them on Firefox, but I have something we don't like to talk about to prevent such things.