Getting Rid of Sponsored Links in IE

[NWCook]

When using Internet Explorer, there are green underlines on some of the text on various web pages. Moving the mouse over these words makes a yellow box with "Sponsored Link" pop up. Any ideas on how to get rid of this? Thanks.

 

[screw3d]

Does this appear on other browsers too? If it does, then it you can't really do much..

If it doesn't, it probably means that you have adware/spyware in your computer. Check the stickied thread on this forum.

 

[EagleKeeper]

You have nasty spyware.

Some of the information may be able to clean it out. If not, you will need to roll back to a time when you were pure.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
You have nasty spyware.

Some of the information may be able to clean it out. If not, you will need to roll back to a time when you were pure.

Some pages have this built in as part of their advertising. I have no spyware on my PC but still see this at *certain* sites, IGN is one.

 

[klah]

The sites probably use IntelliTXT from Vibrant Media. Even the Anandtech news pages use this form of advertising.

You can read how to turn it off for Anandtech.com here: http://www.anandtech.com/siteinfo.aspx?intelli=y

It is at the discretion of the site operator whether to allow readers to disable it for each page.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: ArmchairAthlete

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
You have nasty spyware.

Some of the information may be able to clean it out. If not, you will need to roll back to a time when you were pure.

Some pages have this built in as part of their advertising. I have no spyware on my PC but still see this at *certain* sites, IGN is one.

Last winter, I picked up a virus that acted similar to what was described. Could not remove it.
Showed up only on my system, not based on the actual site being visited. Happend no matter what profile I was running as long as IE was used.

One way to test would be to locate a page that acts this way and then verifiy the page against a different system.
If the same, then it is probably what the above posters have stated.

If the second system does not exhibit the same attitude, then you may have to follow the original responses in this thread.