[winter4me]

Why are some words turning orange and double underlined????? What is the meaning of this. I find it very distracting.

[pegasus]

Sounds like you have a virus or something, can you do a anti virus scan?

[winter4me]

thank you. I will do that. I thought it was a "new" thing on the site; it looks like you could 'hit' the word and it would take you somewhere, so I haven't done that.
No one else experiencing this?

[lizardlady]

No orange words for me. Sounds like you've got a bug.

[H3rmit]

Yup, I agree with lizardlady. The problem seems to be on your computer, not the site.

[FooZe]

It sounds like what I call "spyware," though that may not be exactly the right term. "Adware," maybe? Something has installed itself on your computer that looks for certain words in the text and turns them into advertising links.

I've been using Spybot - Search & Destroy to scan for vermin like that. An alternative is Ad-Aware.

[eskielover]

There is this junk that I ended up getting on my computer when I downloaded an update to Adobe Flash player & shockwave.....somehow they seemed to attach themselves to the download of those updates that we always are in need of. It was called SweetPacks & if I remember, the underlined stuff came at about that same time. Problem was that none of Norton or any of the free antivirus/anti-spyware programs catch it which really irritated me.

Somehow I read something about apps being added in to the browser & the fix was to disable all the apps & start over from scratch. Also you can do a google search on how to get rid of underlined words.....there are many suggestions that come up & you can see if any really fit what you are experiencing & your computer's system setup.

Sorry I'm not a better help. I have had so many of those little irritating things come up on my computer & I don't have the money to take it in to have it repaired every time something wacky happens.....but I also can't remember everything either even though I've tried to print out the instructions I followed, but being unorganized, those notes are all over the place. It is amazing how many things we can find out from googling questions about problems we are experiencing with our computer.

Let us know what you find out because I'm sure that others will experience a similar problem.

[FooZe]

One other thing: I've been using Firefox for years. With the early versions (through 2 point something) that ran under Windows 98, Spybot S&D used to turn up suspicious items such as tracking cookies fairly often. I'd add each domain (ad.doubleclick, or whatever) to Firefox's list of sites not to accept cookies from. Over the next few years, my "no cookies" list grew to maybe 30 entries and the Spybot hits got very rare -- maybe one a year by the time I moved to a newer computer that could run updated versions of Firefox.

Nowadays, Spybot S&D hardly ever turns up anything except right after I've used IE or Chrome. I use IE or Chrome only when I have trouble getting to a webpage with Firefox and I want to see if a different browser will help. Their (apparently) greater vulnerability to spyware leads me to stick with Firefox.

Just out of curiosity, what browser do you get those orange links with?

Oh, one other thing: for the last year I've been reading pretty regularly at another site. One day about 6 months ago, occasional words started turning into links at that site only. I don't think the links were orange; more likely, they were "underlined" with something like a row of blue dots. The problem cleared up by itself after a few days. I'm guessing that something had infested the server at that site, not my computer. I don't remember if I even ran either Spybot S&D or Microsoft Security Essentials before the problem cleared up but if I did, they didn't turn up anything.