Why are there suddenly adverts popping up in my blog?

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  amandaharper · Member · Feb 5, 2013 at 11:38 am

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  When I checked on my latest post this morning I discovered that the four words have links attached to them, which bring up in window pop-up ads. I definitely did not permit this, and was under the impression that these kind of things were not a part of wordpress.com.

  I’m wondering if someone broke into my account and added some code to something or other. Can someone please help?

  (I’d like to add that this is literally the first problem of any kind I’ve had with WordPress, and I’ve absolutely adored my time here. Keep up the good work folks.)

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

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  kardotim · Member · Feb 5, 2013 at 11:46 am

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  Do you perhaps use any browser add-ons/extensions? if so, please disable these and see if that resolves the issue.

  Looking forward to your reply.

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 5, 2013 at 11:48 am

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  Please also see this post by timethief, another forum volunteer:
  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/09/14/bloggers-beware-of-adware/

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  amandaharper · Member · Feb 5, 2013 at 11:53 am

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  Thank folks, I just had a little chat with my partners granddaughter. Apparently last night she went nuts with Facebook apps on my Facebook account. When I shutdown some crap game named “Pengle” everything went back to normal. *sigh* This is why I’m glad I can’t have kids, at least my puppies can’t use my toys.

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 5, 2013 at 12:09 pm

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  Thanks for coming back and letting us know what was causing the problem. Perhaps this will assist some other user in the future.

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  kardotim · Member · Feb 5, 2013 at 1:13 pm

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  Thank you, both :)