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General Discussions => Chit Chat => Topic started by: DEMPSEY on January 03, 2013, 02:05:06 PM

Title: some sort of spam I think
Post by: DEMPSEY on January 03, 2013, 02:05:06 PM
Have just noticed that random words are being turned into links on my end,as I move the mouse over them a pop up link to random various web site selling odds and ends. Anybody got these too. >:(
Title: Re: some sort of spam I think
Post by: Ciderhead on January 03, 2013, 02:07:46 PM
QuoteHave just noticed that random words are being turned into links on my end,as I move the mouse over them a pop up link to random various web site selling odds and ends. Anybody got these too. >:(

nope
Unclean! Unclean!
Looks like there was more than one virus in the Dempsey household over Christmas
Title: Re: some sort of spam I think
Post by: DEMPSEY on January 03, 2013, 02:38:03 PM
Thanks,that helped. Downloaded it by mistake while trying to watch a film on the web. :-[
Title: Re: some sort of spam I think
Post by: Greg2013 on January 03, 2013, 04:12:40 PM
Animal Farm perhaps ? :o
Title: Re: some sort of spam I think
Post by: JimmyM on January 03, 2013, 05:37:11 PM
Dirty fecker.

I got some yolk a while ago that loaded itself as a plugin in my browser. It made itself look like a searchengine box and put ads art the end of the screen,  but apparently it collected info you entered in youre browser too.
Title: Re: some sort of spam I think
Post by: Eoin on January 04, 2013, 01:46:01 PM
One word.....Linux...that is all.

(Tube might find this ironic as I'm posting now from Windows, but this is the work PC...meh, but then working for a computer security company it's well locked down anyway)
Title: Re: some sort of spam I think
Post by: Partridge9 on January 04, 2013, 04:27:23 PM
Yea - I got one of those when trying to watch prem football on a saturday afternoon - its a bit of a nightmare
Title: Re: some sort of spam I think
Post by: DEMPSEY on January 06, 2013, 12:07:30 PM
My kids showed me a site to watch films on,so got to watch "the hunger games" and "prometheus". Then noticed this crap on the computer later. :-[