Random links showing up in my posts

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  cravingthis · Member · May 22, 2012 at 12:31 am

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  Random links are showing up on my husband’s laptop. On my desktop, everything is fine. I asked 3 other people to check my blog, and they didn’t see any links that shouldn’t be there.

  I did a complete virus scan and cleared all browsing history on the laptop, everything is fine, but the links still show.

  Example: http://cravingthis.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1677&action=edit

  Where it says: 4. Add shanks one at a time

  The word “add” is appearing as a hyperlink to a spam notice.

  Has this happened to anyone else?

  Thanks in advance.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 22, 2012 at 1:19 am

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  We can’t see posts that are still in Preview, but we have had lots of reports of random links being inserted by people’s browsers. Are you using any browser add-ons or plug-ins? If you are, please disable them and see if the links still show.

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  cravingthis · Member · May 22, 2012 at 1:20 am

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  Whew …. found the problem.

  http://wafflesatnoon.com/2011/10/05/seeing-unwanted-text-enhance-ads/

  I could not find the extension to delete it so I deleted google chrome all together, and problem resolved!

  Hope this helps someone else with a similar problem.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 22, 2012 at 1:25 am

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  Thanks for reporting the specifics. We’ve never known what was doing this.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 22, 2012 at 1:38 am

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  This may also be related https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227351/Cross_browser_worm_spreads_via_Facebook_security_experts_warn?taxonomyId=85

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  cravingthis · Member · May 22, 2012 at 1:42 pm

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  Thanks for the link – how scary!