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WTF adware?
on: December 06, 2012, 18:13:43 PM
I've been getting adverts on the bbc news site for a while now and no AV/Adware remover can find a problem.

Now today I have started getting random links inside words that popup with an advert.

Anyone know what is going on?
Is it time for a fresh format?

a couple of sites seem to think my DNS servers have a problem, I think I am using google's DNS.
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Last Edit: December 06, 2012, 18:16:38 PM by DEViANCE #187;

Re: WTF adware?
Reply #1 on: December 06, 2012, 18:22:26 PM
found the link problem, it was embedded adware inside a firefox add-on.

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Re: WTF adware?
Reply #2 on: December 06, 2012, 21:15:07 PM
Seems to be getting more common now, I had one hijack chrome and insert Linkbucks links to random sites every time you opened a new link, a lot of them seem to evade the anti malware/spayware apps better too :/

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