Weird Links

[Sailor Steve]

What's with all the random words turning into links? There are some pretty odd ones. I've actually gone back and edited a couple of my posts to get rid of them.

Very annoying.

[Dowly]

Haven't noticed anything, myself. :hmmm:

Can you give an example?

[Herr-Berbunch]

Me neither. :hmm2:

[von Kinderei]

:doh: ...

[Sailor Steve]

Every now and then a word or phrase will be underlined, seemingly at random. If I hover the cursor over it, it says "Powered by Text-Enhance". Clicking on it takes me to a variety of different places, also seemingly at random.

Here:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=198073&page=2

In Haplo's post (#17) in the line "It is not an extraordinary claim (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=198073&page=2#)", "claim" is a link, and I don't think he put it there. I've noticed it in some of my own posts, and it annoyed me so much that I edit the post until it's gone.

[Edit] Funny, it made a link here, but here it takes me to the thread, and if I use that link the link there is gone. If I go there the usual way the link takes me here https://www.quibids.com/en/landing/index.php?mb=5or&sub.

It's all very strange. And annoying.

[Dowly]

There's no link in the Haplo's post for me.

Upon further diggin' around, it does look like it's malware. :hmmm:
http://botcrawl.com/how-to-remove-text-enhance/

Hope it helps! :salute:

[u crank]

I'm getting them also. I thought it was on the forum end so I kinda just ignored them. And yeah Steve I to would edit my post to remove those words.:haha:

Thanks for the link Dowly, I just tried it. Hope nothing blows up.:O:

[Jimbuna]

Steve...that is precisely what was happening to me about a month ago and I suspect you can't remember us discussing it on Skype.

Strange as it may sound I simply went to program files and uninstalled it.

[Sailor Steve]

It never occured to me that it migh be on my end. I checked my Program Files and there's nothing with that name to uninstall. Now I'm getting one in my own sig. I'm running a malware-fighter. We'll see what happens.

[Sailor Steve]

Well, MalWareBytes found a bunch of stuff (I really should run it more often), but Text-Enhance wasn't one of them. I tried the link for removing it but when I went into Tools and Manage Add-Ons it wasn't there. I checked my Program Files and found nothing with that name. I haven't been back long enough to see if it's still doing it.

[u crank]

I followed the instructions as per Dowly's link and found two extensions that I did not install, at least not intentionally. I use Google Chrome. Anyway I disabled them and the problem seems to be gone.

Yes Steve I've even seen them in peoples sigs including yours. I just thought it was a SUBSIM scam. Sorry Neal, for even thinking that. :haha:

Thanks for bringing this up Steve. As a computer illiterate I would never have known and was afraid to ask. And thanks again to Dowly for the helpful link. :up:

[Dowly]

No problem, glad it helped. :up: