What are all these UniSales ads and links on the forum????

[Zorst]

I just came on the forum to find Uni sales advert banners at the top of each page and links to them all over posts where key words are. Now I have an up to date Mala-wear thing on my laptop and I use a laptop not a phone so I don't understand where these are all coming from. Even posting this I have adverts and links to Uni sales flashing up at me as I type which is damn annoying. Does Admin have any idea about this and how to get rid of it?

Zorst

[morningcoffee]

This is adware on your computer and not related to the forum.
Your malware software may not pick it up, because often these things are installed "legitimately" by being added or hiding inside things you installed as if they're in some way useful to you, it's quite insidious. I've had a problem with this once in the past myself and had to remove it (not UniSales but something similar). It's super annoying.

Here's a couple of removal guides I found for you:

malwaretips.com/blogs/ads-by-unisales-removal/
www.fixyourbrowser.com/removal-instructions/remove-ads-unisales-virus-removal-guide/

Let me know if you have further trouble

What anti-malware software do you use, by the way? I recommend MalwareBytes

[Zorst]

Thanks MC, I already had Malware Bytes but have just updated it. It sure is a pain, the only thing that has updated in the last 12 hrs is Fire Fix so I can only guess it came in attached to that UGH. Ive not added anything to my laptop and don't as a rule because of problems years ago when I added a PDF writer. Anyhow thanks for the links Malware Bytes is currently doing a scan to see what it finds and if that doesn't solve it I'll check out your other link that you posted.

Thanks again

Zorst

[etana]

UniSales was in one of our laptops too, not sure how it got in but yes, it sure is annoying and takes up cpu resources too. Hope you get it sorted out.