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Highlighted and underlined words

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Why are there highlighted and/or underlined words showing up in blue on the forum now? It just started happening about 30 minutes or so ago. Did I hit some kind of key combo on my keyboard or is this something new on the forum? If I click on the word it takes me to another search engine about the word I clicked.

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Wot browser are you using, m8?
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Chrome.

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In short, google is trying some gay thing where they profile your usage and highlight words that fit your profile. I think they're homosexuals trying to dwarf their competition.


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Clearly it's Katy Perry gathering evidence about your character and is preparing a huge lawsuit against you for libel. I told you a long time ago that shit is gonna come back to bite you in the ass.
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I thought that, Bux, but I was wondering why it just started happening.

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Serious answer is that it's a sort of spam virus your Chrome picked up.

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Or you're on double secret probation.
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tzg wrote:Serious answer is that it's a sort of spam virus your Chrome picked up.
How do I get rid of it?

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syaigh wrote:Or you're on double secret probation.
This is likely.


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I'm using chrome too and I don't have this issue. I thought it was because I'm not nearly as cool as Mickey.
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tzg wrote:Serious answer is that it's a sort of spam virus your Chrome picked up.
I think that's it. I have it, too.


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I dont click links
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The Ginger Beard Man wrote:I'm using chrome too and I don't have this issue. I thought it was because I'm not nearly as cool as Mickey.
I wouldn't feel bad, GBM, no one is.


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My wife had some similar thing on her laptop. I think what I had to do is root through the "extensions" and uninstall whatever didn't look right (maybe I googled anything suspect, too), then maybe I also had to go to my Windows Control Panel to uninstall anything that didn't look right (again, maybe googling stuff too). It wasn't that bad, just finding stuff in easy-to-find spots, trying to uninstall, maybe googling, too, no hardcore virus removal type things.

EDIT: note my antivirus software didn't pick it up. I think Malwarebytes might have noticed it if we had been running it at the time, but we weren't on that computer. See here for the free program, it's good stuff: http://www.malwarebytes.org/

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