twiggyleaf
Weird Advertising Links on Wiki...
Today, all of a sudden, I am noticing some weird links on my wiki that have never been present before. On certain abritrary words, they are coloured with a double underline and when you click them they seem to take one to an advert for either Amazon or Bing.
Is anyone else experiencing this? If so, what is it all about? It's not very RPG!!!!
twiggyleaf
"Shimring - The Faces of Divinity":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shimring
(a multiplanar 3.5 D&D campaign)
"I met a traveller from an antique land....."
CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
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"I met a traveller from an antique land....."
CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
Inner Council Member
You may be right. I have never seen this before on any site on my computer and usually keep anti malware up at all times but I guess sometimes really persistent bugs can get through. I tried to take a snapshot but it wouldn't work.
If you look at the first page of my ADVENTURE LOGS, there are about six words as coloured links with DOUBLE underlines, which I did not create. All of them link to some advert or other. I would be very grateful if you take a look and see if you see them.
The "linked" words are cloud, light, obsidian, event, claim, Quest and Heart. If you can't see them they must be on my computer. Please let me know.
And if it looks like some horrid malware, do you have any ideas about what I should do. I have already tried a SYSTEM RESTORE which didn't seem to do anything.
Thanks for any anticipated help.
twiggyleaf
"Shimring - The Faces of Divinity":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shimring
(a multiplanar 3.5 D&D campaign)
"I met a traveller from an antique land....."
CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
Inner Council Member
Walter
As MugMug mentions, a browser plugin or toolbar could be the culprit. I'd suggest going into the settings for whatever browser you use and making sure any plugins you're using are supposed to be there.
I'd also suggest running a virus scan and a spyware/malware/adware scan. I'd suggest whatever antivirus program you have and "Spybot Search and Destroy":http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html, but whichever one you're used to would probably work fine.
Let us know how it turns out!
Just trying to help out.
My own antivirus programme didn't pick them up and was in fact partially disabled. Neither Windows Defender nor Malwarebytes picked it up, but Spybot did, although I had to do it three times (not knowing about the right click for Windows Vista). So after about 10 hours and after changing my Antivirus Programme, I finally seem to have sorted it.
Now I can start on updating my campaign for startup next week. Thanks to all advice offered! (And sorry, OP, for thinking it was you. I should have known better. Blame my inferior tech skills!)
twigs
"I met a traveller from an antique land....."
CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
Inner Council Member
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"I met a traveller from an antique land....."
CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
Inner Council Member
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Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
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"I met a traveller from an antique land....."
CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
Inner Council Member