Wording has links to external, possibly phising / spam, Websites

Good day. I have a slight concern.
I have read about a guy's similar problem he had with his email, but I seem to have it when normally browsing and then also something else apart from the "Question".
When browsing all websites using Firefox 19.0 (apparently my Firefox is up to date when I do an update check) {seems its not}, random words are highlighted, and when you hover over them, it gives a small pop-up to external websites, such as Insurance and XXX Content. I have been using Firefox for a very long time now, and never seen this before since recently. I do a virus and malware check regularly, and I have check of any extensions that may cause the problem (Have only Google Search as an extension). This is very annoying. My concern also, I have done some website development before, and now some of my work also has these Highlighted contend, which is confusing, as I have linked some words to additional internal pages. One of my big clients' website has these highlighted text as well, and some of these links link to XXX content, whats going to happen if a potential client of theirs (with little understanding of IT) sees these links (when using Firefox) arent they going to think {this people supports XXX Content} to gain revenue from advertising, wont this put them into a BAD light?
Apart from my PC, i also have installed a virtual machine, with no other programs installed but Firefox, and it does the same!
Question 2: A Specific Website I developed, seems to freeze when Installing Java Scripts, as It seems FF cant load the content. The script is just a basic Conveyor Belt animated Banner!

dupe of 
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/952545

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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.
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Hi, everybody
I'm just starting our attempt to put together ZfD app packages for MS Office 2007. I've tried 2 different route with poor results for each. I'm looking for guidance and suggestions and, hey really, the simple final solution. :)
Objectives: Each app package will install locally one of the Office apps (e.g., Word) if it is not installed and then launch it, otherwise it will launch it. It gets installed locally to the C: drive using all the MS default choices, but runs from the desktop ZEN/NAL shortcut. All desktops are XP, not Vista or W7.
Routes tried and failed...
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At this stage all I can think of is expletives. We've paid for everything, I've followed all the usual and customary steps, played by the rules, been polite (and also used the necessary computer swear words), and now I just want to insult everyone in Microsoft's marketing department for ruining everyone's life yet again. Can't we just do this, is it too much to ask!?!
Please help me. What is really going to work for distributing and maintaining Office 2007 apps using our ZfD environment? ALL USEFUL SUGGESTIONS WELCOME. Thank you. Bless you.
-Kent S.
Be strong as a ship and wise as a whale

These questions are really best in the Microsoft Office Forums.
These are MS Office Questions not ZEN Questions.
Novell did not design Microsoft's Office Install.
I have nothing against snapshots, but it does not work great with the Office
installs, which you yourself know since you are posting here with problems
based on that.
And your other method you are trying with the break out is not working well.
We also know that from experience.
We can tell you that the way most people install it and the way most people
succeed doing it, is by doing it the way recommended and designed by
Microsoft.
ZEN does that just fine.
Craig Wilson - MCNE, MCSE, CCNA
Novell Knowledge Partner
Novell does not officially monitor these forums.
Suggestions/Opinions/Statements made by me are solely my own.
These thoughts may not be shared by either Novell or any rational human.
"KentFSmith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Thank you, Grimlock (-Grimlock?-)
>
> Through a google search I encountered a very close suggestion, and the
> poster said they couldn't remember the name of a MS utility but that
> there was one that would break out the individual MSIs from the Office
> 2007 setup.exe bundle. The dependent app appears to be a simple and
> possibly elegant solution, but without a good way to break out the MSIs
> I don't see how to do anything other than with a config.xml ('Config.xml
> file in the 2007 Office system'
> (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc179195.aspx)).
>
> Do you know of that utility and where I can find it?
>
> There is a lot of history here now of just doing the individual
> applications. Everyone gets Word and Excel, but much fewer get
> PowerPoint and Access. All other reasons aside, a compelling one is the
> reduced number of help calls to the Help Desk here. Occasionally we
> also just run the whole Office install for someone who needs some of the
> odd utilities, but that is easily cost-justifiable for us to break them
> out as exceptions. Otherwise, we focus 90% of our support on just Word
> and Excel and it pays off nicely.
>
> If we switch to putting full Office 2007 on all PCs then there may be a
> better approach that include other tools than ZfD, such as the fact that
> we replace 1/3 of all PCs in the organization each year (so that no
> hardware is more than 3 years "behind"). We could put 1/3 of all Office
> 2007 installs into the new PC image. But we still need to support all
> the use of the apps after the install, so ZfD MUST work well, it simply
> MUST work well or we're screwed, to use the vernacular. Also, just
> switching from what we've been doing for years -- single app orientation
> -- means introducing new-ish issues that have to discover and explain to
> our comrades, and to adjust our orientation with unknown future costs.
>
> But that may end up being the simplest adequate solution. And that's
> what I want.
>
> -K
>
> grimlock;1883526 Wrote:
>> Craig Wilson wrote:
>> > You should really focus on #1.
>> > Snapshot is not the way to go.
>> >
>> > Details about what is Not working or what random behavior may help
>> folks.
>> > Ask in the MS forums may help too. dont' mention zenworks.
>> > Just say you are installing as Administrator from a share and getting
>> these
>> > errors.
>> >
>> > While not 100% accurate, it should be good enough to get some good
>> feedback.
>> >
>>
>> Nor is installing 1 app at a time. Install the whole suite, have an
>> icon for each app that runs the exe for that app with a dependency on
>> the another app that points to the installer msi.
>>
>> If any user runs any app, it will run if the executable is there
>> (meaning it's been installed). If the executable is not there then it
>> calls the dependent application (the installer app) and installs it,
>> and
>> then runs it.
>
>
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Word TOC Links are shifting

This is a new one for me. I am using Word 2003 and Acrobat 8.1.3.
I have a 500 page Word document that is a Master Document containing 13 subdocuments. When I PDF it using PDFMaker, all of the TOC entries are hyperlinked, but this is where it gets strange. Up until around page 113, the hyperlinks work perfectly. After that, they start to shift so that when you click on an entry that should jump to the top of page 114, it jumps to the middle of page 115. It continues to get worse from there, so by the end of the document, the link jumps to a point about 7 pages beyond the point it should.
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Has anyone seen anything like this before?
Thanks.
Rob

Hello everyone,
I am facing the very same problem (Word TOC links are shifting in the PDF file, the longer the file, the greater the shift - first only by one page and then growing up to a shift of 4-5 pages with a 150p document). Xrefs and other links within the file are not affected, only the TOC.
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Most people will download it and view it on their own computers using Adobe Reader.
I was asked to check how it worked on eBooks.
On my Kindle software, (on the Mac) it worked fine.
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I have a master document which is made up of 10 individual documents created in Word 2003. admitedly, it's a huge file of about 20MB once loaded and consists of tables, numerous jpeg images, links, etc.
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Embedding the fonts in the PS file (an option) is also a potential memory issue that is not needed.

Dreamweaver very slow when linking to external CSS style sheets

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Hi Murray, the RAM comments were irrelevant, pointless. 32GB RAM vs 4GB RAM? Sorry, I worked at Microsoft and as a systems integrataion consultant for a number of years. 32bit programmes don't access RAM the same as 64bit, but, having 32gb with a 64Bit OS means RAM usage for a 32bit programme is better managed. Programmes and data files are on seperate drives. My data files kept are on 3 disk stripe sets.
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Strange problem with linking to external vob-file

I have a strange problem with linking to external vob-file. I
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when I try to open vob-files with the same code. The strangest
thing is that when I change the default program for vob-files to
WinDVD this code works and the file opens, but when I change the
default program to Nero Showtime this code doesn't do anything
(when I open the file 'manually' from the folder, it opens
correctly on Nero Showtime). My client uses Nero Showtime, so I
really would appreciate any help on this one.

temes wrote:
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
>> When using Nero Showtime as a default program, the
error code is 31,
>> "There is no application associated with the given
filename".
>
> Which suggests that something has gone wrong with file
associations.
> If
> you double-click one of these files in an Explorer
window does it fire
> up Showtime and open the file?
>
>
> Yes, the file opens correctly in Nero Showtime when
double-clicking
> it in an Explorer. I tried the file associations and
created a
> html-page with a link to the vob-file, and the html-link
opens the
> vob-file correcly with Nero Showtime. My client reported
this
> problem, so it's not just my computer which is having
this problem.
If you open a command prompt, do you get an association
listed like this
example for .txt files:
C:\>assoc .txt
.txt=txtfile
C:\>ftype txtfile
txtfile="D:\Program Files\JGsoft\EditPadLite\EditPadLite.exe"
"%1"
Andrew

Safari is highlighting words and linking them to ads? also getting a lot of pop ups

Safari has started randomly highlighting words and linking them to ads? I'm also getting a lot of pop up ads in new windows and tabs. I googled how to get rid of it and people said to delete extensions and cookies and also block cookies from third parties and advertisers. I've done all this but it is still happening. Any suggestions??

You installed the "DownLite" trojan, perhaps under a different name. Remove it as follows.
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Back up all data.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.vsearch.agent.plist
Right-click or control-click the line and select
Services ▹ Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal)
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Repeat with each of these lines:
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.daemon.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.helper.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/Jack.plist
Restart the computer and empty the Trash. Then delete the following items in the same way:
/Library/Application Support/VSearch
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/Jack
/System/Library/Frameworks/VSearch.framework
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From the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Extensions
Uninstall any extensions you don't know you need, including any that have the word "Spigot" in the description. If in doubt, uninstall all extensions. Do the equivalent for the Firefox and Chrome browsers, if you use either of those.
This trojan is distributed on illegal websites that traffic in pirated movies. If you, or anyone else who uses the computer, visit such sites and follow prompts to install software, you can expect much worse to happen in the future.
You may be wondering why you didn't get a warning from Gatekeeper about installing software from an unknown developer, as you should have. The reason is that the DownLite developer has a codesigning certificate issued by Apple, which causes Gatekeeper to give the installer a pass. Apple could revoke the certificate, but as of this writing, has not done so, even though it's aware of the problem. This failure of oversight is inexcusable and has compromised both Gatekeeper and the Developer ID program. You can't rely on Gatekeeper alone to protect you from harmful software.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

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