Is It Just ME............?

[squidgelet10]

Greetings each.
Is anybody else getting wound-up over these new double-underlined hyperlinks which now seem to inhabit every block of text which appears on the internet? Is it just me who is experiencing the problem?
These links seem to appear in many different colours, but invariably lead to an online "survey" or a "search" facility.
Does anyone know how/why these nasty irritations are suddenly appearing, please?
Be good!
Cheers.

[Buenchico]

I wish I got paid commission every time I typed the following words!

That sounds suspiciously like there might be some malware on your computer, which is generating the dodgy links. Download, install and run the free version of Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware:
http://www.malwarebyt...ts/malwarebytes_free/

Chris

[Sir Alec]

They are hoping that you will answer and do a survey, thus giving them your email address, which they can then exploit and sell on to other companies. Ignore and delete it, they'll soon give up.

[squidgelet10]

Sorry Chris but there ain't any malware on this heap of junk! I have been running AVG Pro for many years now without any problems: not YET anyway.
Sir Alec seems to have hit the nail squarely on the head with his response which suggests some collusion by the individual website owners where these links appear.
I maintain four sites of my own and no such links appear on them.
When I read Sir Alec's response earlier the word "survey" was actually hyperlinked as in my original question, although it seems to have disappeared again now.
Happy days.
Thanks anyway.
Stay good!
Cheers.

[ChuckFickens]

"Sorry Chris but there ain't any malware on this heap of junk"

Maybe not, it's probably a browser add-in instead.

[SumBod]

From your description, it sounds like 'Keyword Advertising'.
The links and the popups are created by javascript which is called up by the web-page - so they're legitimately part of the site.
From my own experience, the scripts are most often provided by a site called "intellitxt.com".
So, blocking scripts from that site will usually get rid of the annoyances.
There's a wikipedia article which describes this tuff :
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellitext"

[squidgelet10]

Hey SumBod:
You are the ONLY person on here, so far, who as actually identified the problem.
I have visited the offending website and found that this is EXACTLY what I have been complaining about.
Now I know what it is, I can deal with it accordingly.
Many thanks for your input.
Stay good!
Cheers.

[SumBod]

Glad to be of help. You probably ought to thank my wife really, cos I had to hunt the answer down for her a couple of weeks ago :)

[squidgelet10]

Greetings friend.
Please put her on and I will gladly do so. :-)
If you cannot get her on, then please give her a big hug and a kiss from me.
Great work anyway.
Stay good!
Cheers.

[SumBod]

Will do :)

[SumBod]

ps : I just came across another culprit. As well as "intellitxt.com", these things can also be served by "infolinks.com".

[squidgelet10]

Yeah, Infolinks are one of the sods wot pop up: Another one is Online Surveys. :-(

[SumBod]

Ahh. I'll add that one to my list.