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Problem with pop ups

Graphicool1
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Posted January 6, 2013 at 7:00PM

Win 7

Hi I'm using Ad Blocker, but when my cursor passes over random blue underlined words, on many web sites, I get the following pop-up...

'Win the new iphone 5 click here'

I'm fed up with this now. I have clicked on it to see where it took me and it appears to be genuin. But I'm getting fed up with it now, if it just popped up as I passed over the word then went, it wouldn't be so bad, annoying but I could live with it. But it doesn't, once it's popped up, it stays there until I click on the 'X'. It's run by this company...CLICK HERE

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Graphicool1

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Posted January 6, 2013 at 7:05PM

PS After I posted my above qestion I noted that the three words 'the new iphone' are in red and underlined. So I hovered my cursor over them and I now get...

Attention! Congratulations, you are todays iphone5 winner! Click 'Yes' button below to claim before time runs out.

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rdave13

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Posted January 6, 2013 at 7:32PM

Have a look here, How To Remove Text Enhance.

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rdave13

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Posted January 6, 2013 at 7:35PM

For some reason the link goes down to Chrome so please scroll up to the top.

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Graphicool1

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Posted January 6, 2013 at 7:47PM

Hi rdave13

Thanx for that, I'll get right on it. Cheers mate

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Jock1e

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Posted January 6, 2013 at 8:26PM

WOT and your link.

Link result

What Browser and what ad blocker are you using.

A new host file should get rid of it but I am not that keen on them.

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Graphicool1

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Posted January 7, 2013 at 2:35PM

rdave13 & Jock1e

Hi guys

The ad blocker I'm using is called...'AdBlockPlus'

However I'm just reporting back to give 'rdave13' an update. I tried the link you gave me, but the problem I was having wasn't the same as the problem that they were solving. Although I did run MBAM just in case, but as expected it didn't find anything and neither did SAS. I tracked down the culprit to a programme called 'VidSaver', that I'd recently installed in FireFox. I uninstalled the software and all is now ok. Cheers guys

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Jock1e

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Posted January 7, 2013 at 3:00PM

Graphicool1

Ok thanks for coming back and letting us know how you fixed it.

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rdave13

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Posted January 7, 2013 at 4:01PM

Graphicool1, as Jock1e, good you're sorted. In the link I gave it shows a list and Vid-Saver extension as one of the possible culprit programs among many.

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