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December 19th, 2004 22:00
XP/IE optional underlined keyword hyperlinks
Certain keywords on my webpages have suddenly become underlined hyperlinks to "helpful" further reading (the words 'personal site' now link to eHarmony.com).
I know this is a new MS feature of IE on XP (and I think it's despicable) but I don't know what it's called. More to the point, I can't find the setting to turn it off.
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jakeleg
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December 20th, 2004 01:00
It could be one of two things. If its only on selected web pages its probably Intellitext, an advertising service some web sites are adopting. If you visit a site that employes it, some words will be highlighted as hyperlinks to ads. Ther is no way to turn this off. Tom's Hardware is one such site and has a good explanation of it:
http://www.tomshardware.com/site/intellitxt.html
If its on every site, you have a nefarious program called TOPtext. If you've dowloaded Kazaa or other peer to peer software you probably have it. You can read about one person's experiences with it here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/30/BU231339.DTL
jakeleg
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December 20th, 2004 13:00
Message Edited by jakeleg on 12-20-2004 09:35 AM
DaveC426913
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December 20th, 2004 13:00
"... If you've dowloaded Kazaa or other peer to peer software..."
Nope. I avoid any downloads I'm not positive of. And I'm not interested in most of that stuff.
Could it happen just by visiting the wrong type of sites? Perhaps, if I ... I mean, if my friend ... visited some sites ... from, say, the wrong side of the tracks?
I've done a Norton antivirus scan and it caught and deleted a bunch of adware threats. A subsequent scan came up clean as a whistle.
DaveC426913
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December 20th, 2004 15:00
"...run AdAware and Spybot S & D..."
Installed adAware, thought it was doing its thing. Also thought Norton should ahve caught anything.
"...post your problem in the Special Interest - Virus/Spyware..."
Will do.
"...check your add/remove programs to see if Toptext is listed. ..."
I have. It's not. (Wait, unless I misread it as 'Topstyle', which is installed for Homesite. I'll check).