How do I get rid of spam?

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  abramerle · Member · Jun 24, 2014 at 8:43 am

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  When I logged in this morning a window popped out about taking a short survey for wordpress. I took it thinking it was an official wordpress survey but now I believe it was spam as I now have adverts popping up and my blog is littered with unwanted links to this survey thing. Can you help me get rid of it? I’ve tried to remove the links from my posts but as soon as I remove it from one word it comes up somewhere else!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jun 24, 2014 at 1:21 pm

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  Hi there,

  The kinds of ads and links you describe are sometimes caused by malware or a virus on your computer, but more often it is due to a browser extension or toolbar that you may have installed in your browser.

  These sites have further explanation and suggestions for eliminating the ads:

  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/09/14/bloggers-beware-of-adware/

  http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/14/ads-on-wikipedia-your-computer-infected-malware/

  http://www.littletechiethings.com/2012/06/how-to-remove-ads-not-by-this-site.html

  I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any questions.

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  abramerle · Member · Jun 25, 2014 at 2:25 pm

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  Hi Rachel,

  Thank you for your help, I think you’re right as I started to get pop-up adds appearing whenever I went onto the internet. Will definitely check out your links!

  Thanks again :)

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jun 25, 2014 at 2:54 pm

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  You’re welcome! :) Just let me know if I can do anything more to help.