Why are some of words in our posts are underlined??

[Poohbear123]

Just noticed this on a few posts and on one of mine too.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Are they links?

 

[Beanie]

??
What do you mean like this?

 

[jfulcer]

If you did a search, I believe that it underlines the words.

I second Dan's question, are they links? If they are it's most likely spyware that provides 'linkthrus' on certain words. adaware and spybot should solve that problem if it's the case...

 

[Dan Murphy]

Search colors the search word/s.

 

[Poohbear123]

If you put your curser on apprentice, than it will be an ad for Monster.com the job search thing.

 

[Dan Murphy]

You are finding ads in the posts on the DIS??

 

[Poohbear123]

It is heavy underlining with YELLOW in it, and if I type Pharmacy, it will give me a site on Rx info! Must have something to do with AOL or

 

[browneyes]

I don't see anything underlined.

 

[Poohbear123]

Only I can see it..... Must have something to do with AOL, the crappy internet service I have.

 

[WDWHound]

It might be some strange form of adware.

 

[dianeschlicht]

I don't see any underlines other than for links like Dan posted.

 

[vandergriff4]

I know what your talking about. We had that happening for a long time but my DH and I went and deleted alot of things off of the computer and it just disapearred. I wish I knew exactly what it was that was doing that.

 

[mainewmn]

It is a form of adware. And a pain to remove as well

Download a copy of Ad-Aware it should help you remove it.

 

[DopeysGal]

I have AOL and don't have the underlines but I do have Ad-ware installed too.

Deb

 

[grinningghost]

I know exactly what it is. It was happening to me a few months ago. My computer started to run terribly. Thanks to Mr. Dan Murphy, I downloaded SpyHunter from Enigma Software and after running it, and removing loads of parasites, I haven't had the problem since.

 

[Poohbear123]

Thanks I will check Spyhunter out!

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

Definitely spyware/adware. It's linking those words to search related topics. I know when I'm rewarding at Milesource.com, answering the trivia questions, there are words underlined - like University - if I hover the mouse over the word and it pops up a box with info. It can be annoying, but helpful as well.