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[martin42]

whilst im on some websites,i am getting words highlighted in red and when pointer is passed over the word it comes up with a ad for easy inline,advertising something for the word,has anybody else had this happen,ive used firefox and chrome and happens on both,this has only just started tonight.

[Andy B]

whilst im on some websites,i am getting words highlighted in red and when pointer is passed over the word it comes up with a ad for easy inline,advertising something for the word,has anybody else had this happen,ive used firefox and chrome and happens on both,this has only just started tonight.

I've had that in the past when SWMBO has been downloading games .........   

[TheBoy]

Use a proper browser, and disable all add-ons.

Both FF and Chrome are well known for exploits.


Although in this case I suspect something else. Using a proxy? Or ISP uses transparent proxy?

[martin42]

is it a trojan or something thats got on to my laptop?

[martin42]

disabled add ons and seems ok now 

[omegod]

How do you disable add ons?

[martin42]

go into settings and then remove add ons

[Mr Skrunts]

Also if using XP, go look in add/remove programs and see if there are any iffy sites that have annoyingly added a bit of thier own sowfware.

Like a lot of programs downloaed offer the choice of adding tools bars, even though we might de select them for install I have found a lot of them still get added but are just hidden after install.

[Abiton]

Quick vote of thanks to martin42 for posting about this, and TheBoy for the solution.

My missus was looking at her business website (on FF) and saw this same red font underlined spammy linkage malarkey.  Thought her site had been hacked and generally panicked.

I remembered seeing this thread...

Disabled addons and it went away briefly, but returned.

Went into add/remove programs and got rid of a thing called yondoo (IIRC), which seemed to do the trick.  No idea where that came from.

[cem_devecioglu]

I'll recommend scanning with different free online scanners .. those self installing softwares sure will leave some traces elsewhere

[Abiton]

Thanks Cem, I've suggested that she does that if any of this comes back.

Oh, and I didn't remember the name of the offending program correctly, it was yontoo, not yondoo.

 

[cem_devecioglu]

Thanks Cem, I've suggested that she does that if any of this comes back.

Oh, and I didn't remember the name of the offending program correctly, it was yontoo, not yondoo.

 

I see its open to debate .. so suspicious imo
http://www.systemlookup.com/FF_Extensions/556-Yontoo_Layers.html

[dbug]

Yontoo.Pagerage is a browser extension for Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox that enables customization of ones Facebook profile.

Yontoo.Pagerage also displays advertising which is not stated when installed as bundled software.

Use Spybot to remove