Pop ups

In the last few days when reading the various posts a highlighted word that seems like a link is a pop up with nothing to do with the subject being discussed.

Example scratchcards to name one.

The pop up blocker does no good is there a simple solution to stop them.

Windy

Windy

I've not noticed that - can you quote a specific thread and post please?

Regards

Norman

My post about popups had two blue underlined words that had pop ups I turned the forum off then switched it on again and the words were normal.

It has done this on other threads it is an anoyance.

Windy

This happens all the time on Chester's forum but I've never seen it on here.

Roy

I've not seen them here but like Roy says Chesters is full of them, think they are called "Infolinks"

J

Hmmm

I've had a look at the Chester site and I see what you mean. Agree with the others i've not seen them here. Maybe clear your PC's cache ?

N

Windy,

I have not yet suffered this problem on this forum but,

for reference; this might be useful.

MichaelG.

and here is the Infolinks Privacy Policy

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 15/10/2012 21:12:25

Hi There

I seem to get this with Internet Explorer all the time.

I used to use adaware to remove rubbish like this but since it know does not like Norton.

regards David

Hi,

The solution is local so you need to follow Michael's first link to Adblock and install as an extension. I have Adblock 2.12 on FireFox and this cured the problem.

David, apparently you can block 'Infolinks' on IE without any extension or add-on. Go to Michael's first link and scroll down to the instructions for IE.

Regards

Terry

Here are the links for Adblock

FireFox

and Chrome

Nil problems with Snow Leopard and Firefox