What's with the embedded words in peoples' posts??? I clicked on an underlined, green highlighted word that I thought was a user-inserted link, and a couple of popup windows appeared after I closed the original advertisement. I don't like it!! If this is a new $$ generating thing for the site, its annoying. I'd pay more for membership if its needed.
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- Thread starter Nate Hawkes
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Steve Worcester
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Where? What message?
I too would find this unacceptable.
I too would find this unacceptable.
Maybe its a virus on my computer. I just went to an obviously real link from a user's post and saw similarly green highlighted words. The words all come up with the same origin--GameVance. They're all different ads, but all say GameVance. It seems to be an advertising company or something. Anyway, I'm not a computer whiz, but I do have antivirus software. Just thought I'd pass it along. If its on my computer and I overreacted, I apologize. I just didn't think viruses or adware could work like that. Thanks
Edit: the words, "virus" and "work" are highlighted in green and underlined in my own post when I look at them!!!!
Edit: the words, "virus" and "work" are highlighted in green and underlined in my own post when I look at them!!!!
Is anyone else seeing anything like this??? I know I'm not seeing things; do I need to take my computer in??
As far as I can tell its just you - probably something that got loaded in your computer - if you're running xp or newere try doing a system restore to a couple days before you noticed this and see if it goes away
Nate,
A link to the specific thread or post you're see this in would be very helpful.
A link to the specific thread or post you're see this in would be very helpful.
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I can tell you exactly whats happening. Likely you are using internet explorer, they started generating ads associated with the text you see on any web page, and MS gets the $ from the hits. They take a shot at what the related ads would be by the text on the page. There should be a setting to turn it off, under your options menu.
It's adware that got loaded onto your machine...GameVance is the culprit...
got to Control Panel>>Add/Remove Programs>> scroll down the list until you see GameVance and click remove.
Hope this helps
got to Control Panel>>Add/Remove Programs>> scroll down the list until you see GameVance and click remove.
Hope this helps
Steve Worcester
Admin Emeritus
I can assure you that is not a function of Internet Explorer. It may be someone has exploited your IE holes with some adware program though.
Thanks guys. I'm on a different machine now and don't see the problems, so I know its the laptop I was borrowing. DOH. Hope I didn't do it. It wouldn't be the first time that machine has had problems. Thanks for the help, guys.
This might help...
To completely purge Gamevance from your computer, you need to delete the files, folders, and Windows registry keys, and registry values associated with Gamevance. These files, folders, and registry keys are respectively listed in the Files, Folders, Registry Keys, and Registry Values sections on this page.
http://www.exterminate-it.com/malpedia/remove-gamevance
A quick Googling found this:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2290773_eliminate-gamevance-ads.html
I should mention though, that Step 4 (defragmenting the hard drive) is not related at all to the adware, and is not necessary in this case. (I worked in the defrag business for over 17 years, so I'm pretty familiar with what it's good for, and this ain't it.)
http://www.ehow.com/how_2290773_eliminate-gamevance-ads.html
I should mention though, that Step 4 (defragmenting the hard drive) is not related at all to the adware, and is not necessary in this case. (I worked in the defrag business for over 17 years, so I'm pretty familiar with what it's good for, and this ain't it.)