Doubble underlines appear under words which pop up some game advertising. the lines alone are annoying, pop up adds are starting to make me angry. How to I switch this off. [e-mail]

Question

double underlines appear under seemingly random words. This by itself is annoying. they all seem to link to the same game site which is irrelevant to anything I am doing. How do I defeat this feature?

Answer 1

Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs.<br />
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.<br />
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.<br /><br />
*http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
*http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
*http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
*http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
*http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also:
*"Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked
You can look at Adblock Plus.
* Adblock Plus: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
You need to subscribe to a Filter list (e.g. the EasyList).
* http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions
* http://adblockplus.org/en/getting_started
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_advertising_services_and_affiliate_networks
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliTXT