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Old Oct 16, 2013 | 06:16 PM
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Exclamation O/T: WTF? Why am I getting sent to other websites?

This has happened to me about 4 times here on the forum. I click on a thread title to open it, and I suddenly find myself on another website for (so far) Jaguar (twice), a site that contained links to Mercedes, Jaguar, and Porsche dealers, and another that I can't remember the subject. If I click back it goes to the opening post on the thread I originally tried to open. Anyway, is this happening to anyone else here?
 
Old Oct 16, 2013 | 06:37 PM
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Not me! That's strange...I'm using a Mac. What are you using?
 
Old Oct 16, 2013 | 06:41 PM
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Not happening to me either. Maybe you picked up a virus?

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Nope, don't have that problem.
 
Old Oct 16, 2013 | 07:30 PM
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Not me! That's strange...I'm using a Mac. What are you using?
Windows Vista and Mozilla Firefox. Virus scan is done automatically daily by Norton. Not having this quirk on other sites. Weird.

Thanks guys. I'll keep looking at my programming and see if something creeped in under the radar.
 
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FOUND THE CULPRIT!

An Adware program called "Lucky Leap" came bundled with a freeware program I downloaded from CNET. I never had a problem with them before, but I did a search and found that several people were blaming CNET for spreading this particular program.

Program deleted. Hopefully there are no lingering issues.
 
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