Keywords are show as links on web pages

[Guest]

For some reason I am seeing certain words (job, hotel) underlined on all web pages. When I put my mouse over these words I am told to "click for more information." I am then taken to a search results page for these words. I wonder if I accidentally loaded a program or changed my IE 6 browser settings. Can anyone help me eliminate these words to be underlined and used as search terms

Thank you

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

For some reason I am seeing certain words (job, hotel) underlined on
all web pages. When I put my mouse over these words I am told to
"click for more information." I am then taken to a search results
page for these words. I wonder if I accidentally loaded a program or
changed my IE 6 browser settings. Can anyone help me eliminate these
words to be underlined and used as search terms?

Thank you

First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Malware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each needs to be updated with the program's update function
before every use, even when just downloaded. There's also a lot more to do
than just those two programs. CWShredder is also available here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/cwshredder.zip
**Post your HijackThis log to
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or the Spyware forum at
http://forum.aumha.org/ for expert analysis, not here.**
Alternative download pages for Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and CWShredder
may be found on this page:
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm.

If nothing there helps, please post back to this thread.

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[Bob]

Isn't JimBee describing something called "Smart Tags" ? I remember that in
one of the IE6 betas smart tags were enabled but apparently MS decided to
not include it in the final version. It would be interesting to see what he
finds out as I see them on some web pages also and have no parasites or
other things on my system. Would MS Office have installed something that
would enable these also ( I have Office 2000 installed) ?
Bob

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Isn't JimBee describing something called "Smart Tags" ? I remember
that in one of the IE6 betas smart tags were enabled but apparently
MS decided to not include it in the final version. It would be
interesting to see what he finds out as I see them on some web pages
also and have no parasites or other things on my system. Would MS
Office have installed something that would enable these also ( I have
Office 2000 installed) ?
Bob

It's similar to Smart Tags, but is usually a symptom of Ezula, in which case
it might be possible to fix it by using Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs
to remove AdText, HotText or TopText. I prefer removing it with an
anti-spyware tool.

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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[Guest]

I have the same problem-it has been going on for a couple of weeks....what do i need to do

----- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP wrote: ----

Isn't JimBee describing something called "Smart Tags" ? I remembe
that in one of the IE6 betas smart tags were enabled but apparentl
MS decided to not include it in the final version. It would b
interesting to see what he finds out as I see them on some web page
also and have no parasites or other things on my system. Would M
Office have installed something that would enable these also ( I hav
Office 2000 installed)
Bo

It's similar to Smart Tags, but is usually a symptom of Ezula, in which case
it might be possible to fix it by using Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs
to remove AdText, HotText or TopText. I prefer removing it with an
anti-spyware tool

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/O
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send emai
http://www.fjsmjs.co
Protect your P
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect