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Getting weird links on random words

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jcarnes93
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When on the web page of any website, random words will be highlighted with a green arrow symbol next to it. I have never had this problem until today and haven't downloading anything recently. The image I attached has the words diapers highlighted with the arrow next to it for an example. I have checked addons and there is nothing unusual or out of the ordinary in my addons. Occasionally, I will also get a little side-bar pop-up thing that comes up on the side of the screen or if I click on anything another tab will open to a completely different website with some sort of add. I have all pop-ups disabled (with few exceptions) so I'm not even sure how I'm getting pop-ups in the first place as Firefox used to be very good with this.

When on the web page of any website, random words will be highlighted with a green arrow symbol next to it. I have never had this problem until today and haven't downloading anything recently. The image I attached has the words diapers highlighted with the arrow next to it for an example. I have checked addons and there is nothing unusual or out of the ordinary in my addons. Occasionally, I will also get a little side-bar pop-up thing that comes up on the side of the screen or if I click on anything another tab will open to a completely different website with some sort of add. I have all pop-ups disabled (with few exceptions) so I'm not even sure how I'm getting pop-ups in the first place as Firefox used to be very good with this.

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Hi, it does look like an advertising link so might be malware. But first try temporarily disabling any theme or add-ons one by one until you find the possible culprit.

If that doesn't help, you can try scanning with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac.

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