Is everyone else getting the same, multiple, red hyperlinks throughout the NPN site now, or is it something dumb I did ?
If you click on them, they go to ads, or other sites soliciting things.
For instance, on this page,(below), "flower" "hymns" and "Ireland" are all now red hyperlinks.
Nope, at least not on any of my computers. You seen to have something that is playing with your HTML code. If you are running Windows, download and run Malwarebytes. It can be run for free and finds things that ani-virus software misses. I've used it for years. Depending on your browser look for unknown add-ons in your browser too.
If you are running Firefox, they have this support link too. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/937969 It may well apply to other browsers as well.
Sandy, it's not NPN, at some point you visited a web page that had an ad that installed a "Browser Helper Object" that now takes keywords on ANY page you go to and matches it with the clients that paid them to find people and get them to their website with the hopes you'll buy something. Basically, it tries to get you to click through and buy their stuff. There's more going on but easier to explain in person which I obviously can't do, lol. It's not a virus or anything, just a rotten way to get you to Click n Buy, the pervading purpose of ads on webpages (btw, you could have gotten this at ANY webpage that allows ads... Fox News to Delta Airlines, it wasn't from going to a suspicious site).
If you can get a screenshot of the "Manage Add Ons" form in your browser (I'm assuming you're using Internet Explorer on Windows, but if it's another browser or you use a Mac,let me know that. I'm figuring you use windows being you bought the Dell Monitor from me). That "Manage Add Ons" form is going to be somewhere in the Tools menu. If you're using IE 8 or 9, you may not have a menu bar (you have to tell it to show, off by default), so look for a little gear icon a the top right, and click on it. A menu will drop down and hopefully you'll find Manage Add Ons. Take a screenshot with either the Snipping Tool in Win 7, or simply hitting ALT + PrintScreen. Paste it into your photo editor and make an NPN-compliant image and post it here. THEN I can tell you which item(s) to remove from your Add On list, and that problem should go away. Hope this all makes sense!
Yes, Preston and Don are correct, MalwareBytes is a good thing to run. You can download that right here. No tool gets everything, but that one is one of the better options. I still think we need to inspect your add-ons and make sure nothing is lurking that MalwareBytes may miss.
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8 repliesIf you click on them, they go to ads, or other sites soliciting things.
For instance, on this page,(below), "flower" "hymns" and "Ireland" are all now red hyperlinks.
Sandy
If you are running Firefox, they have this support link too. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/937969 It may well apply to other browsers as well.
I agree with Don, MalwareBytes should find it.
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If you can get a screenshot of the "Manage Add Ons" form in your browser (I'm assuming you're using Internet Explorer on Windows, but if it's another browser or you use a Mac,let me know that. I'm figuring you use windows being you bought the Dell Monitor from me). That "Manage Add Ons" form is going to be somewhere in the Tools menu. If you're using IE 8 or 9, you may not have a menu bar (you have to tell it to show, off by default), so look for a little gear icon a the top right, and click on it. A menu will drop down and hopefully you'll find Manage Add Ons. Take a screenshot with either the Snipping Tool in Win 7, or simply hitting ALT + PrintScreen. Paste it into your photo editor and make an NPN-compliant image and post it here. THEN I can tell you which item(s) to remove from your Add On list, and that problem should go away. Hope this all makes sense!
It's still not a bad idea to download and MalwareBytes, just to see if it catches anything your regular antivirus may have missed.
Speaking of antivirus. I installed Bit Defender (not free) and it's amazing how much bad stuff it catches.
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Sounds like Paul nailed it.