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Highlighted and underlined words

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:32 am
by Mickey O'neil
Why are there highlighted and/or underlined words showing up in blue on the forum now? It just started happening about 30 minutes or so ago. Did I hit some kind of key combo on my keyboard or is this something new on the forum? If I click on the word it takes me to another search engine about the word I clicked.

Re: Highlighted and underlined words

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 3:04 am
by WildGorillaMan
Wot browser are you using, m8?

Re: Highlighted and underlined words

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 3:19 am
by Mickey O'neil
Chrome.

Re: Highlighted and underlined words

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 3:53 am
by buckethead
In short, google is trying some gay thing where they profile your usage and highlight words that fit your profile. I think they're homosexuals trying to dwarf their competition.

Re: Highlighted and underlined words

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 4:40 am
by Andy83
Clearly it's Katy Perry gathering evidence about your character and is preparing a huge lawsuit against you for libel. I told you a long time ago that shit is gonna come back to bite you in the ass.

Re: Highlighted and underlined words

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:47 pm
by Mickey O'neil
I thought that, Bux, but I was wondering why it just started happening.

Katy loves me, Andy, although she may be a little upset that I'm also banging Sara Jean Underwood and Scarlett Johansson too.

Re: Highlighted and underlined words

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:13 pm
by tzg
Serious answer is that it's a sort of spam virus your Chrome picked up.

Re: Highlighted and underlined words

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:19 pm
by syaigh
Or you're on double secret probation.

Re: Highlighted and underlined words

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:21 pm
by Mickey O'neil
tzg wrote:Serious answer is that it's a sort of spam virus your Chrome picked up.
How do I get rid of it?

Re: Highlighted and underlined words

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:22 pm
by Mickey O'neil
syaigh wrote:Or you're on double secret probation.
This is likely.

Re: Highlighted and underlined words

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 4:40 pm
by The Ginger Beard Man
I'm using chrome too and I don't have this issue. I thought it was because I'm not nearly as cool as Mickey.

Re: Highlighted and underlined words

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 4:55 pm
by Gin Master
tzg wrote:Serious answer is that it's a sort of spam virus your Chrome picked up.
I think that's it. I have it, too.

Re: Highlighted and underlined words

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:12 pm
by TerryB
I dont click links

Re: Highlighted and underlined words

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:15 pm
by Mickey O'neil
The Ginger Beard Man wrote:I'm using chrome too and I don't have this issue. I thought it was because I'm not nearly as cool as Mickey.
I wouldn't feel bad, GBM, no one is.

Re: Highlighted and underlined words

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:14 pm
by tzg
My wife had some similar thing on her laptop. I think what I had to do is root through the "extensions" and uninstall whatever didn't look right (maybe I googled anything suspect, too), then maybe I also had to go to my Windows Control Panel to uninstall anything that didn't look right (again, maybe googling stuff too). It wasn't that bad, just finding stuff in easy-to-find spots, trying to uninstall, maybe googling, too, no hardcore virus removal type things.

EDIT: note my antivirus software didn't pick it up. I think Malwarebytes might have noticed it if we had been running it at the time, but we weren't on that computer. See here for the free program, it's good stuff: http://www.malwarebytes.org/