Viglink?

It's a advert thing. If you use an adblocker it goes away...or if you opt out, you can do that too:

https://www.viglink.com/opt-out/

 

hmmm...I didn't fully read your post last night. This doesn't actually sound like what I was talking about. I saw vigilink and assumed.

Yours actually does sound like some sort of malware addon or something.

Is it with all of your browsers?

 

On the forum? as I dont get any of this using Firefox Nightly and latest build with no addons. BUT I will look over more forum posts/theads as not all ads pop up in all....
We can look into this more, but as ads pay for forum, then maybe tricky unless your browser or addon removes them.

 

Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop.

• Double click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool.
  Vista/Windows 7/8 and 10 users right-click and select Run As Administrator
• Click on the Scan button.
• AdwCleaner will begin...be patient as the scan may take some time to complete.
• After the scan has finished, click on the Report button...a logfile (AdwCleaner[R#].txt) will open in Notepad for review (where the largest value of # represents the most recent report).
• The contents of the log file may be confusing. Unless you see a program name that you know should not be removed, don't worry about it. If you see an entry you want to keep, let me know about it.
• Attach the logfile to your next reply.
• A copy of all logfiles are saved in the C:\AdwCleaner folder which was created when running the tool.

 

Remove the items ADW found. Then reset Chrome.
Reset Chrome to Defaults

 

I will have to check with Jim. Adblock doesn't remove viglink. Changing browsers also does not work.

 

Weird. I disabled it here and don’t see them. Tried it on both Firefox and Chrome.

I do know what you are talking about but it's usually considered a virus or malware. Did you check in your installed programs to make sure nothing new is showing up there.

 

Great Googley Moogley!

We've been running viglink since -- well really early on when they were backed by Google. We run on the forums because forums are reeaaaaaaaly hard to monetize and it used to be a decent way. because of how they implement in a non-intrusive way - they are very common in forums.

The way viglink works is they belong to a ton of affiliate programs - well all of them. Once we could never get accepted to. When they see a word in the affiliate realm .. like say "bitcoin" they would link to a bitcoin affiliate program automatically/ Then if the user clicks it, then buys some bitcoin Viglink and Majorgeeks would split the revenue. Honestly -- it's not enough to buy coffee.

Viglink is not malware. There is no component to it at all that could be considered malware - it is simply an advertising vehicle. I am not surpised that adblockers do not block them either. I know the world wants to call all ads malware - but well it's just ads.

That said - after at least the better part of a decade I removed the script -- just to make Tibbs happy. I need to cut back on my coffee anyway.