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Offline Kweassa

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What the @#%$##* is the deal with the word "ADVANTAGE"?
« on: May 13, 2004, 09:05:56 PM »
Everytime somebody writes down the word

 "advantage"

 it seems to automatically insert a certain link into the post which was never intended. I see this happening to me, to other people, and even other UBB boards such as the UBI IL2/FB forums.

 What the $%^&(@W#E$ is going on??
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Offline Kweassa

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What the @#%$##* is the deal with the word "ADVANTAGE"?
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2004, 09:07:00 PM »
Note:

 See the "adv...." word linked in the above post??

 I've never made that link.
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Offline Batz

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What the @#%$##* is the deal with the word "ADVANTAGE"?
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2004, 09:20:16 PM »
uumm its not linked...????

Dunno wtf you are talking about :)
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Offline Pyro

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What the @#%$##* is the deal with the word "ADVANTAGE"?
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2004, 09:38:37 PM »
Easy on the fire water Chief.
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Offline moot

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What the @#%$##* is the deal with the word "ADVANTAGE"?
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2004, 09:41:16 PM »
his typing's ok, so it's not alcohol..
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Offline Toad

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What the @#%$##* is the deal with the word "ADVANTAGE"?
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2004, 10:01:32 PM »
It'd probably be to your advantage to review this link idea before posting more about it.

;)
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Offline Lazerus

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What the @#%$##* is the deal with the word "ADVANTAGE"?
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2004, 10:04:19 PM »
It's spyware, certain words create links. I cant remember the program name but I had the same thing. Check your start menu first, you'll probably recognize it.
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Offline YUCCA

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to be rid of that pesky spyware...
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2004, 10:09:48 PM »
Here's a link to download ad-aware 6.0... It's free and gets rid of that spyware.

http://download.com.com/3000-8022-10214379.html?tag=lst-0-1
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Offline SOB

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What the @#%$##* is the deal with the word "ADVANTAGE"?
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2004, 10:39:34 PM »
Yup, spyware, I've had that one too.  Irritating as hell, ain't it.  As I recall, it was pretty tame and could be removed by simply uninstalling from the add/remove programs control panel in Windoze.  Not sure what it was called, but it was something fairly obvious.
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Offline Kweassa

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What the @#%$##* is the deal with the word "ADVANTAGE"?
« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2004, 11:11:25 PM »
Thank you so much for the infos.

 I was caught completely unaware, and didn't know such a weasely infiltrating program existed!!! I honestly don't have a clue where the heck it crawled into my system!

 .....

 But how does this "adaware" work? Is it some sort of a filtering system??
« Last Edit: May 13, 2004, 11:13:41 PM by Kweassa »
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Offline YUCCA

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What the @#%$##* is the deal with the word "ADVANTAGE"?
« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2004, 11:23:53 PM »
Just scans for spyware.  Then at end of scan gives you list of files it found that you can delete.
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Offline txmx

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What the @#%$##* is the deal with the word "ADVANTAGE"?
« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2004, 11:26:51 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by Pyro
Easy on the fire water Chief.



LOL good one:p
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Offline ghostdancer

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What the @#%$##* is the deal with the word "ADVANTAGE"?
« Reply #12 on: May 14, 2004, 06:06:06 AM »
Ad Aware should catch it. I used Spybot myself to sweep and get rid of Spy Ware.
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What the @#%$##* is the deal with the word "ADVANTAGE"?
« Reply #13 on: May 14, 2004, 07:55:01 AM »
Got this problem with searchclick i remove it but it keeps coming back

internet is trash these days
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Offline Kweassa

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What the @#%$##* is the deal with the word "ADVANTAGE"?
« Reply #14 on: May 14, 2004, 08:15:55 AM »
That Ad Aware stuff's pretty neat - got my system under control.

 Gee whiz I've never realized so many stinking "data miners" were embedded in my system - how the hell do they get in here in the first place?

 Anyhow, thanks for the quick tips. Whew...!
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