Links to External Websites Appearing in my Project

Hi,
Got a strange one here . . . it may be network related I guess, but I'm not sure.
I recently finished work on a large WebHelp project. When I outputed it to HTML I noticed that certain words have been 'hikacked' and used as links to external websites - webopedia.com being the most common:
Federated Instant Messaging (IM)
<a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/network.html">networks</a>
allow communications across a variety of different IM <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/client.html">clients</a>
and <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/platform.html">platforms</a>.
A Federated IM network, has an open <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/directory.html">directory</a>
allowing other IM networks to message their users. Federated IM networks
often communicate using open standards, such as <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/XMPP.html">XMPP</a>.
It's almost as if Google Adwords or some other site has taken over my document. These are certainly not links that I have put in; I generally only link to other pages within the same document and hardly ever go out to other sites. The only external links I have added to the project are for legitimate sites (Adobe and Avaya).
Has anybody else experienced this, and does anybody know how to stop it happening?
Any help or advice would be appreciated,
Thanks,
Alex

Hello again Alex
Okay, question here. The document you say is exhibiting the issue, did you create that document yourself? If not, then perhaps whomever created the document to begin with added these links.
I suppose that you could troubleshoot this by creating a fresh document. If the fresh document doesn't have the mysterious links, you can rule out any automated and nefarious forces at play. But if creating the document DOES seem to contain the links, you have other issues at play here that warrant further and deeper investigation.
By the way, is this content originating from a Microsoft Word document or is it just basic HTML pages?
Cheers... Rick
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