ChromeWarriorXIII Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 While browsing the nexus tonight I noticed what appeared to be links, however, when you mouse over them, you get this: http://i332.photobucket.com/albums/m329/error_on_page/Untitled.png I thought one of the points of Premium Membership was to not have ads? That's why I'm wondering why these are showing up. I don't have any of the banner ads appearing, just these. Has anyone else had this? I've never even seen this on the Nexus before until today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddah Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Are you logged into the sites ? You must be logged in or the required cookie is not set and you will see the ads. Was that on the beta sites ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVampireDante Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Looks like a pop-up ad from that cropped image - something we do not operate with here. Might want to check your browser's settings and cookies for anything you don't recognise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChromeWarriorXIII Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 I'm definitely logged in. I also tried clearing all of my cookies and that didn't work. At first they were only showing up in the Skyrim Nexus, but now the links are appearing in the forums as well. Oddly, Chrome seems to think that they're links within the Nexus, but they're actually some site called textsrv.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamevsreality Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 By doing a quick search on Text-Enhance it seems like its somekind of adware you may have on your computer.Try a virus/spyware search on your computer and look in your list of downloaded plugins on Chrome and see if you find anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark0ne Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Generally speaking if it's only happening to you then it's much more likely that you've got malware/adware/spyware on your system that is doing this. Sorry :( If this is still happening please can you provide a full image of the site with the ad on it? The image you've provided doesn't help me much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChromeWarriorXIII Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 Sorry for the small image. Here's a bigger one: http://i332.photobucket.com/albums/m329/error_on_page/Untitled1.pngFor some reason, my cursor isn't shown in the screenshot, but it's over the "link" right about the ad. I found some weird "VidShare" extension on Chrome I don't remember installing (I have very few extensions). I'm also running a scan with AVG but it hasn't found anything yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark0ne Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 I can confirm that link does not exist for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatalmasterpiece Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Try running malwarebytes, seems to do a good job imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakeTheDragon Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 (edited) I know what that is and how it works. They're called "intext ads". I programmed a similar system a while ago.A script scans the text on your page for a certain set of keywords from a list and via DOM operations turns the first N occurances into hyperlinks which onclick/onmouseover open this popup with ads related to the keyword. Our script had to be included on your page via a javascript code snippet calling it from our servers. But that's of course not the only way how it could be done. It can access any parts of any page via the DOM tree and has nothing to do with anything from the actual website it's showing up on. It could be a plugin of your browser you installed without knowing what it does, or it could indeed be some malware hacking into your browser or something to do that. As it's giving you names, links and urls to go by, it shouldn't be hard to determine where it's coming from though. Edited March 11, 2012 by DrakeTheDragon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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