Help! How to remove malicious browser add on?

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Ive got this pesky malware on my browser that is turning text into unwanted links. For some bizarre reason though, it only happens on wrong planet. This is whats going on-
[img][800:533]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d139/subzero2006/links.jpg[/img]


I've tried using malware bytes, doesnt help. Both internet explorer and firefox seems to be infected. It wont let me remove the offending malware using the browser tools. What do?

I get that too, started today, only on Wrong Planet. I don't know what to do about it.

I hate those links -- they keep getting in the way and popping up at the wrong times.

It's not malware. To be there, it had to be intentionally added by the WrongPlanet staff.

You can opt out of it. Hover over a link and you will see a question mark in the little thing that pops up. Click on the question mark and it will take you to a web page about the links. Toward the bottom of the page there will a link that will let you opt out of the links. Just click on that.

By the way, the "opt out" is stored as a cookie. As long as your cookies are persistent, the "opt out" should be in force even after you leave the browser and go back in.

In my case, to keep cookies from being stored on my computer, I have the cookie file marked as "read only". When I start the browser, it can read the cookies that are already in the file, but any new cookies are never stored on the hard drive.

So if your cookie file is "read only", you would have to make it "read/write", go to WrongPlanet, click on the question mark in the annoying popup thing, and opt out. Then leave wrong planet, remove any and all cookies added while visiting wrong planet that you don't want to save, exit the browser, and then mark your cookie file "read only" again.

Thank you eric76.

I hate those. They are like landmines, accidentally hit one and you get a video ad. On a side note, it should be illegal for a website to play sound without your permission.

There is a thread discussing this "malware" in the wp.net discussion forum: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt216617.html

I have no idea of what browser you're using, but if your using Firefox, install the NoScript extension, and disallow infolinks.com, which is where those links come from.

Use Chrome/Chromium.

the free version of SuperAntiSpyware usual fixes most of my problems.

It's not spyware - it was added by WP staff - read above on how to disable it.

I allow the banner ads but don't pay much attention to them because they are not in the text.

they've gone for me .. 6th dec 2012 .. stopped here a cpl of days ... now gone.