'Green Double Underlined Links' Pop-Up Ads

The 'Green Double Underlined Links' pop-up ad is a symptom of the presence of adware or of other programs that modify your browser in ways typical of adware. Often referred to as in-text advertising or inline text advertising, the 'Green Double Underlined Links' pop-up ads may be used by normal websites as an intended advertisement platform, but, most often, are the result of an unwanted or threatening program that modifies Web pages as your browser loads them. The appearance of the 'Green Double Underlined Links' pop-up ads regularly or on sites that don't host them should be treated as indicative of a compromise of your PC, and malware experts would recommend using anti-adware or anti-malware tools to remove the associated program.

The Links to Content You Didn't Want to See

As a symptom that's far too common to be limited to any individual program, the 'Green Double Underlined Links' pop-up ads are most closely associated with unwanted toolbars and other browser add-ons that are classified as adware such as Coupon Matcher, Coupon Caddy, Coupon Cactus and Coupon Slider, among others. They can be identified as hyperlinks for website text content; however, due to how they're loaded, they only can appear for the actual text, not as image files that include text content. Clicking these links or, in some cases, scrolling over them with your mouse pointer may activate an additional pop-up graphic.

Malware researchers often find that the 'Green Double Underlined Links' pop-up ads are designed to appear 'relevant' by promoting third party advertisements for specific keywords, such as a tennis shoe company being promoted in a link of the word 'running.' However, this isn't a firm rule, and, in theory, adware may use the same functions to load advertisements for any type of content through any type of text content.

As you would do well to expect from the above warning, the 'Green Double Underlined Links' pop-up ads are security concerns, even though they are most often implemented by Potentially Unwanted Programs – as opposed to threats. Their ability to expose you to advertisements and other third party content automatically may provide redirects to unsafe Web content, such as phishing attacks that gather information through online surveys or using other strategies. Malware researchers also find that adware programs using the 'Green Double Underlined Links' pop-up ads often include other issues, such as updating themselves automatically, causing poor browser performance and modifying various browser settings.

Erasing the Underlines from Your Online Articles

The 'Green Double Underlined Links' pop-up ads have been in prevalence for almost inasmuch as adware overall and aren't specific to individual Web browsers, or even individual operating systems. If you only see the 'Green Double Underlined Links' pop-up ads on specific websites, you should research and try to determine whether these advertisements are a built-in component of the actual site's content. However, seeing the 'Green Double Underlined Links' pop-up ads where they don't belong and/or seeing them appear across many kinds of websites are obvious clues that your computer has been compromised by a program with non-consensual advertising functions.

Some components of adware related to the 'Green Double Underlined Links' pop-up ads may appear in a single Web browser, and malware experts often find toolbars installed to one browser even when the 'Green Double Underlined Links' pop-up ads affects a plurality of them. Uninstalling your browser, removing browser add-ons or changing to a different browser all are improper reactions to the 'Green Double Underlined Links' pop-up ads, which often include program components that can't be resolved through such methods. A thorough deletion of the 'Green Double Underlined Links' pop-up ads requires that you use security software with adware-removing functions that can peruse your browser, your system Registry and other, vulnerable areas of your PC.