Removing hyperlinks from InDesign when exporting to PDF

I have an InDesign file with no hyperlinks set up that contains text which are URLs (for example, it includes the text www.google.com but NOT a hyperlink to that URL). I need the file to be set up that way because I am not allowed to publish PDFs that contain active links. Every time I export the InDesign file to a PDF the hyperlinks become active in the PDF. This happens whether or not the "Include... Hyperlinks" box is checked. The Hyperlinks window is empty. Any advice on how to keep this from happening or how to remove the links from the PDF?
Thanks!
Laura

Did you post this yesterday in another thread? The answer hasn't changed.
Reader and Acrobat, by default, in newer versions scan text for text strings look like URLs and automatically will set them to be links to the address that is found (valid or otherwise). This is not behavior that you can control in ID. It can be turned off in the Acrobat prefs by the user, but you can't force them to do it.

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