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Has anybody noticed double green lines underneath certain words on the site? When you mouse-over them, ads pop up for things.

It just started happening today. I noticed down at the bottom of the page under active users that "Google Adsense Bot" was active within the last 5 minutes (which was also underlined in green).

Is that causing it? If so, can it be blocked?
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musicman2343 wrote:Has anybody noticed double green lines underneath certain words on the site? When you mouse-over them, ads pop up for things.

It just started happening today. I noticed down at the bottom of the page under active users that "Google Adsense Bot" was active within the last 5 minutes (which was also underlined in green).

Is that causing it? If so, can it be blocked?
You have a virus. Someone on another board posted the same thing. He found a virus inside Google Chrome.
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Fantastic.... I don't use chrome though. I use Firefox.

Guess I'll be taking my laptop in...
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Just install Spybots and run it regularly.
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BGDrew wrote:Just install Spybots and run it regularly.
I've had it and it still got through. It's not finding it when I run a scan.
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Try this site, Musicman. It was developed by a guy who writes the computer help column in the local paper. You'll need to do the "Windows Waltz".

It takes a while, but you have to follow all the steps completely and it does a good job of cleaning out anything you might have picked up.

http://securitytango.com/
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Thanks! Ran it once and didn't find anything. Got it the second time though!

Amazing what gets picked up while surfing the net...
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