The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #147860 Message #3429542
Posted By: JohnInKansas
01-Nov-12 - 04:57 PM
Thread Name: Mudcat Virus or new feature
Subject: RE: Mudcat Virus or new feature
A quick look for an example for what I think is being described found one isolated example. One or two of the "green links" appears, with a popup ad if the mouse pointer passes over it in a news article if I load the article from an MSNBC link:
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/ford-ceo-mulally-stay-through-2014-1C6800995#__utma=238145375.1783836327.1343143278.1351735994.1351801362.284&__utmb=238145375.1.10.1351801362&__utmc=238145375&__utmx=-&__utmz=238145375.1351801362.284.100.utmcsr=nbcnews.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/&__utmv=238145375.|8=Earned%20By=msnbc%7Cbusiness=1^12=Landing%20Content=Mixed=1^13=Landing%20Hostname=www.msnbc.msn.com=1^30=Visit%20Type%20to%20Content=Internal%20to%20Mixed=1&__utmk=55132904.
(The word highlighted, and the ad, changes if I open the same link more than once.)
If I open the same page using the "real link:"
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/ford-ceo-mulally-stay-through-2014-1C6800995
the highlight isn't there.
This may suggest that it comes from the site you linked in from(?) or from the link you used to get here; but doesn't necessarily have to be anything that's on the site you're looking at.
IFF THIS is the kind of thing you're seeing. (???)
Assuming you're using an icon, or your "Favorites" link to get to mudcat, it's possible that deleting the link you have and making a new one would get rid of the effect, but I can't offer any real assurances for that.
John