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 Post subject: are these ads supposed to be there or is it just my computer?
PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:57 am  (#1) 
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On top of each post now, there is an ad.
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I am wondering if i installed something that might have caused this.
Browsing the site it's a little slower now and there's some sort of delay when i type messages too.
Is anyone else having this problem?
Just checking to make sure before i go uninstalling some thing or restore to an earlier date.

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 Post subject: Re: are these ads supposed to be there or is it just my computer?
PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 11:00 am  (#2) 
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I don't have them. You may want to clear your cache and your cookies and boot before going to extremes.

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 Post subject: Re: are these ads supposed to be there or is it just my computer?
PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 11:04 am  (#3) 
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I knew it. Damn windows movie maker 2012 (Window essentials package) did something to my computer. This is the second time i got something "extra" from windows essentials.

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 Post subject: Re: are these ads supposed to be there or is it just my computer?
PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 11:07 am  (#4) 
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That is so annoying. Everyone's gotta get into the act. I've found unwanted software/adware on new flash drives, so I just clean them off before using. :hoh

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 Post subject: Re: are these ads supposed to be there or is it just my computer?
PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 11:17 am  (#5) 
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trandoductin wrote:
I knew it. Damn windows movie maker 2012 (Window essentials package) did something to my computer. This is the second time i got something "extra" from windows essentials.


I strongly doubt an official MS program is adding this kind of adware to your browser. Either your browser got hijacked by something else, or you used a non-official installer from some other site.

To remove you can try this:

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Adchoices
http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-adchoices.html

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 Post subject: Re: are these ads supposed to be there or is it just my computer?
PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 11:29 am  (#6) 
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I got movie maker from here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows/get-movie-maker-download
it's the second time it did that to me.
oh well. I restored it to 3 days before this install (because that's when there was a restore point) and all is good now. no more delays while typing.

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 Post subject: Re: are these ads supposed to be there or is it just my computer?
PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 1:17 pm  (#7) 
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if you're using firefox, update it and look in your add-ons when you don't update it lets bad stuff install to you have to update of get a divorce and take the kids. lol

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 Post subject: Re: are these ads supposed to be there or is it just my computer?
PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 5:49 pm  (#8) 
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Change to a Linux distribution. Its so easy and most problems are gone forever.

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 Post subject: Re: are these ads supposed to be there or is it just my computer?
PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 5:40 am  (#9) 
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Not at the moment tran. I have before. You may want to run adware etc or follow other's suggestions

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 Post subject: Re: are these ads supposed to be there or is it just my computer?
PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:31 am  (#10) 
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I suppose you're using Firefox. So try this. In Firefox: Help> Restart with extensions turned off or something like that, because my Firefox is in Portuguese.

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 Post subject: Re: are these ads supposed to be there or is it just my computer?
PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 7:14 am  (#11) 
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Hi
maybe this link can help ... obviously some infected freeware is the cause:

edit: ok, I must not post off-site URLs ... :mrgreen:
Just search google for "remove gosave ad"
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