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14-02-2015, 07:07 PM
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..........ebay adverts which flood my screen when I go on the Amazon website ?
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14-02-2015, 07:29 PM
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adblockerplus it's free to download and stops them straight away. You may need to turn it off to watch some youtube and ITV catch up shows.
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14-02-2015, 08:18 PM
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Rather odd Alan. Are you only getting such adverts when on Amazon? Sounds like you have picked up a browser hyjacking program. When you search for 'stuff' are you shown results from a strange search engine?
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14-02-2015, 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by MKJ ->
Rather odd Alan. Are you only getting such adverts when on Amazon? Sounds like you have picked up a browser hyjacking program. When you search for 'stuff' are you shown results from a strange search engine?
Not that I'm aware of Mark but I'm now having difficulty loading Amazon with my browser, Google Chrome.
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14-02-2015, 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Alan Cooke ->
Not that I'm aware of Mark but I'm now having difficulty loading Amazon with my browser, Google Chrome.
Nothing mentioned about such difficulties with Google Chrome users so there appears to be something amiss with your setup.

Is that the only browser you use?

You could try a different browser and see what happens. One that I use ...

Firefox
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...0%28British%29

If you have picked up a nasty it might well be confined to the browsers you have currently installed. Problem being it might well attach itself to any new browser you install - such as Firefox above. Does sound like you have a 'nasty' there though. As I say try the above and you might find Amazon will load OK.

If the above does work it is but a temporary fix. You will need someone to take a look at your system and check it for any virus or malware.
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14-02-2015, 08:40 PM
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Amazon UK has changed the design of their website recently. It took a while to load on my own computer and I'm running on fibre broadband. It could well be something to do with that. But that doesn't explain why adverts from Ebay would popup .
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14-02-2015, 11:43 PM
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You could try emptying your browser cache but I can't really see that helping.

There is a discussion going on here related to Chrome and Amazon US ...

https://productforums.google.com/for...me/omgEEW0ijjQ

Might be something on the above.
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15-02-2015, 06:41 AM
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Thanks again Mark, I've downloaded Firefox and that works OK.
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16-02-2015, 11:14 PM
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It does sound like you have a browser hijacker in Chrome, and I only just today fixed that exact problem for someone else using Chrome. Malwarebytes found about 90 bits and pieces of malware that were the root of the problem.
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I use Chrome and and don't have any Ebay adds on Amazon..
 

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