Help! Invasion of posts by "text enhance" program
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Random words in my post have been showing up as highlighted, and when a reader passes the cursor over the word it shows a box with a commercial message (ad), some of them suggestive or obscene. At the top of the message box it says “powered by Text Enhance.” Is there any way I can get rid of that? It really messes up my blog.
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Just to let you know: I’ve just taken a look at your blog — it looks just fine; there’s nothing highlighted. Seems OK to me.
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I don’t see any such links on the site linked to your name, but WordPress.com DOES run ads on our blogs. They shouldn’t be obscene, though.
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Thanks everyone. Further research indicates the problem is malware/adware on my computer, not WordPress. I’m still struggling, but I’m glad to know the problem is not systemic.
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Try disabling all browser add-ons and extensions, and let us know if that makes a difference.
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nullI wrote a blog about how to remove Text Enhance a while ago: http://botcrawl.com/how-to-remove-text-enhance/
Has a lot of information if anyone needs it.
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@seangdoyle: Thanks for this; yours is the best discussion of this problem I’ve seen. As I noted earlier, my problem with Text Enhance had nothing to do with WordPress but represented an infection/invasion of my own computer. I finally registered the fact that my Norton Antivirus software had expired. Duh! I updated the AV subscription and the TextEnhance problem promptly disappeared. A reminder never to venture onto the Internet without protection.
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Thank you, glad you got it taken care of.
It’s also good to know Norton detects Text Enhance. – I appreciate that info. -
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