Whats happening ?

[sapper]

Has anyone had similar thing happen like this.

When viewing my forum pages I sometimes find odd words that are anchor text, random words like "register" when you click on it you get an advert pop up.

When you refresh the page it's gone, it appears that I need to block a bot or two.

I must stress that I have not agreed to this being placed on my forum.

 

[master412160]

Seems like spam bots to me. A screenshot of this would be helpful.

 

[Gytix]

I have this as well, random words are hyperlinked and when I hover over it with my mouse an advert appears.

 

[sapper]

Look at the word "Registered" in the above

 

[sapper]

Does it say something when you hover over the word?

What you get is a pop up advert, I've now seen it on several forums, if you hover long enough it says powered by "Textenhance"<br /><br />-- 09 Jul 2012, 21:25 --<br /><br />

Does it say something when you hover over the word?

What you get is a pop up advert, I've now seen it on several forums, if you hover long enough it says powered by "Textenhance"

Ok googled text enhance, this explains it :

http://text-enhance.com/

This tells you how to remove it

http://botcrawl.com/how-to-remove-text-enhance/

 

[Faker]

had a similar problem, botcrawl helped me remove it 😀

 

[el canadiano]

Who are you hosted by? There are advert scripts that do this.

 

[Svoboda]

If it isn't something automatically added by your hosts, you could have downloaded a toolbar or some sort of spyware that is doing this on your local machine.

Ran Malwarebytes Anti-Malware recently?