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    Is anyone else seeing this, or do I have a virus. Double green underlines under a few words that when you move the cursor over it, it shows a ad link. It says it is sponsered by crappie.com.
    Some one help me save $65, cause if I take this machine in for virus removal, that is what it is going to cost me.
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    It's not a virus. Apparently the first post in a thread, or the first on a page picks up keywords to insert advertising links. It's very annoying.
    I also got a garish popup ad this morning advertising some lotto/casino/gambling deal.
    Again, very annoying, and will more than likely cut down my participation.
    It's extremely distracting trying to read with random green double underlined words.
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    Yep, I've got it to.

    I will have to say I also don't like it all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by centerdriver View Post
    Is anyone else seeing this, or do I have a virus. Double green underlines under a few words that when you move the cursor over it, it shows a ad link. It says it is sponsered by crappie.com.
    Some one help me save $65, cause if I take this machine in for virus removal, that is what it is going to cost me.
    It's not a virus ... it's a ad-on advertisement venue. Probably added on by Ed, but I don't know that for sure ... I'd have to ask him (or you can).
    It is a bit on the aggravating side, and kind of unsightly (IMHO) .... but, I don't question the Boss's intent. I've even got to where I don't even "see" (pay attention to) the Google ads, on the left side of the screen.

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    you boys be careful of using Ad-Brite... cause it ain't too brite and you may get some stuff you just don't want! I'd highly recommend getting rid of it! I logged in earlier and instead of getting to the boards it took me to some online gambling/gaming site and locked my system up for quite some time while i worked on clearing all that junk from my laptop!!!

    again, i'd definitely recommend the admins here to remove Ad-Brite.... I made the mistake of using it on another forum I used to run and it became such a irritation to everyone that many stopped participating and the overall forum level fell drastically....

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    very irratating and annoying. Makes for not wanting to ck the boards as often.

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    Lets take a pole about ADBrite. I vote No . Anyone on dialup notice any loadup speed changes? It seems a lot slower on cable .We get hammered with ads every where we go and now its taking over my favorite web site. Its like going crappie fishin and all you catch is yellow bass. IRRITATING !!!!! Please take it off Ed. Thanks.

    Here is the proof ! http://www.adbrite.com/mb/advertise4d.php?opid=1073786&
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    Exatly!!!!!!! Why fix something thats not broken? It,s just like a friend of mine grew sugarcane to make sorgram syrup did it for many years, then came the guys with the degrees he told me that these guys had just about improved the quality out of his syrup...His bussiness folded.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AWMiller View Post
    you boys be careful of using Ad-Brite... cause it ain't too brite and you may get some stuff you just don't want! I'd highly recommend getting rid of it! I logged in earlier and instead of getting to the boards it took me to some online gambling/gaming site and locked my system up for quite some time while i worked on clearing all that junk from my laptop!!!
    Ditto that. I checked in earlier from work and got the same thing. Wherever it tried to whisk me away to after the full page gambling ad, our filter didn't like and it completely hosed my computer up. I had to reboot and probably had some sort of flag raised at IT about trying to access something that was forbidden.

    There are advertising links everywhere now. Even on the index page.

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    I hate it, please get rid of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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