Removing and preventing other websites adding an external link to mine

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  summersking · Member · Jan 14, 2013 at 5:13 pm

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  Someone has attached a link to my blog that goes to another website. This has happened more than once and I forget how I got rid of the last one. You can only see it when you look at the blog post in preview or publish and it is simply a link attached to a word in the post.

  Can anyone advise how to delete it and ensure my blog is protected from these random assaults please?!

  Thanks!

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

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  timethief · Member · Jan 14, 2013 at 5:23 pm

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  WordPress.com does not use text enhance or text link ads or pop-up ads or links in comments. If you are seeing those then that’s a browser-ad-on issue, or in some cases, it’s embedded into free games and/or toolbars downloaded from the internet. See here: Bloggers: Beware of Adware. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/09/14/bloggers-beware-of-adware/

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  timethief · Member · Jan 14, 2013 at 5:24 pm

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  Can anyone advise how to delete it and ensure my blog is protected from these random assaults please?!

  Yes. Be very careful about what you download. Follow all security protocols here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/