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Title: whats with these green links to random websites?
Post by: ferret on November 22, 2009, 11:54:00 am
whats with these green links to random websites appearing in peoples posts?
is this some form of ukb advertising?
if not please block it, its borderline spam
Title: Re: whats with these green links to random websites?
Post by: GCW on November 22, 2009, 12:00:15 pm
I haven't seen any  :shrug:
Title: Re: whats with these green links to random websites?
Post by: Drew on November 22, 2009, 12:02:09 pm
Me either. Show us one.
Title: Re: whats with these green links to random websites?
Post by: ferret on November 22, 2009, 12:07:11 pm
hmm im worried i might have some sort of sneaky adware lurking about now, plese tell me if anyboy else sees one, or potentially knows about this kind of adware
will look for an example
Title: Re: whats with these green links to random websites?
Post by: GCW on November 22, 2009, 12:07:53 pm
I'd suggest you do a full antiviral and antispyware scan.
Title: Re: whats with these green links to random websites?
Post by: ferret on November 22, 2009, 12:11:42 pm
for me the word "job" is a higlighted hyperlink in this quote

Quote
sorry forgot to say, of the people i know who've done it recently they're all waiting for their first job

taken from denses 2nd post on this topic

http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,12693.0.html (http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,12693.0.html)

anybody else see it?
Title: Re: whats with these green links to random websites?
Post by: ferret on November 22, 2009, 12:13:24 pm
omg its now higlighted itself into my own use of the word job  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!
Title: Re: whats with these green links to random websites?
Post by: Stubbs on November 22, 2009, 12:14:48 pm
Malware for sure, follow GCW's advice and stay away from dodgy websites in future!
Title: Re: whats with these green links to random websites?
Post by: ferret on November 22, 2009, 12:19:41 pm
i think it may have come from a link to a pacman game advertised on my yahoo mail actually, sushi something my antivirus avg blocked a virus from this and i noticed one of the dodgy green links took me to this site.
ive put in a complaint to yahoo, id normally trust stuff i found on here
Title: Re: whats with these green links to random websites?
Post by: ferret on November 22, 2009, 12:41:06 pm
hah tracked it down, i no longer see irritating green hyperlinks.  :)
it did indeed come from playsushi.com as advertised on the yahoo mail homepage, i suggest not visiting this site no matter what nostalgic urges u get to play pacman.
stronger complaint about to be sent to yahoo  :spank:
Title: Re: whats with these green links to random websites?
Post by: GCW on November 22, 2009, 12:51:25 pm
Ah, so maybe you owe Bubba an apology?  :lol:
Title: Re: whats with these green links to random websites?
Post by: ferret on November 23, 2009, 07:55:48 am
humble apologies where required
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