Ad Choices in Chrome

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by gypsygemem, Apr 2, 2015.

  1. gypsygemem

    gypsygemem Private E-2

    Hello!

    I went through the steps and that seems to have cleared up some of what's going on-- no more pop-up windows and video ads running themselves. I still have the hypertext Ad Choices showing up.

    It's been going on for a few days. I don't know what what the user was doing when it started (it was probably the 11 year old). It was very slow but that seems better too. Hopefully just getting rid of Ad Choices now.
     

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  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

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  3. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    AdChoices is used by websites ( even Major Geeks ) as forms of revenue to help offset the costs of running the websites and free help forums like this. They are not malware. They are just double underlined keywords that appear on web pages and when you move your mouse over them, I context sensitve advertisement will open up.

    These aren't something new. They have been around for years. You can search for info on AdChoices, Intellitext, Vibrant Media, etc and find quite a lot of info on them.
     
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  4. gypsygemem

    gypsygemem Private E-2

    Thanks for the help. I know that hypertext ads are not new, but it appeared to me that there were a whole lot more of them all of a sudden, along with other problems. I guess now it's just the ones on MajorGeeks that I was noticing, since I spent so much time here fixing my other stuff! Thanks for the instructions. Smooth sailing now...
     
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  5. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

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