In the past few days when viewing members posts , occasionally one of the words in the
posting appears in red and underlined. When I click on the word it displays rather like
a business card with the phrase " friends checker information getter". The postings
are unconnected and the words in red seem to be at random. Has also appeared in
narrative to online BBC  news reports etc .

Haven't noticed it here.

Sounds like you've added a browser extension (or caught something nasty)

Some sort of malware maybe?


Paul

Nowt here

Have not come across it. I assume you have some sort of anti-virus software, if so a scan should find and highlight it so you can send it to the isolation bin.

Happened to me, a bug in some download. You should find it in your browser extensions or add-ons and delete it. Pretty harmless, more of a nuisance.

Thanks for all info, my anti virus software hasn't picked it up,
but I'll run a full scan , hopefully just a minor nuisance , but not
as annoying as popups.

Regards to members, the place to come when you have
a problem , presumably excludes credit card bills !

Allan

We can help with credit card bills. But we will want your full name, card number, pin number and cvv number





In case anyone sees this never give out any of the above information

Quote from: Agrippa on August 26, 2013, 12:41:09 AM
Thanks for all info, my anti virus software hasn't picked it up,
but I'll run a full scan

If that doesn't find anything, I'd run SpyBot.

Quote from: keithfre on August 26, 2013, 06:01:43 PM
If that doesn't find anything, I'd run SpyBot.

I have used Spybot sucessfully, when all others have failed.

I had something similar once, turned out to be Skype! I had unwittingly allowed the Skype software to interpret certain figures as telephone numbers! Annoying!

check in control panel > remove programs and see if you have a program on there called 'arcadesafari'.

I had the same thing with words appearing in red and underlined, plus loads of 'messages' which seemed to lead to either competitions to win I-phones, or fill in surveys.

removed 'arcadesafari' which appeared in the links and this semms to have solved the problem.

not sure where / how this appeared.

hope this helps.

G'day, try YAC [ Just another cleaner] just google it and do a full scan. Regards Jeff.

Hello Jeff and welcome to the NGF! Please post a bit about yourself and your modelling interests on the welcome board - we are a nosey lot.

I live round the corner to you, by the way (Figtree)