I posted a thread in the legality forum, and at the end of my post, I wrote my name, as I often do. Once I submitted the post, a few words were highlighted in orange, and had double lines under them. I've seen this before, not even questioning it. However, one of the words highlighted, an underlined was my NAME. I passed the mouse over my name, and saw YP. Clicked on it, and the White Pages in my area came up with a list of everyone with my name. I found this very disturbing. I'd like to know if this is going to be common practice, or what the explanation is, so I can make my decision as to whether I want to continue to visit this forum. Goes without saying that I edited the post, and will NEVER write my name again on any posts. Has this happened to anyone else, or am I the first.

I posted a thread in the legality forum, and at the end of my post, I wrote my name, as I often do. Once I submitted the post, a few words were highlighted in orange, and had double lines under them. I've seen this before, not even questioning it. However, one of the words highlighted, an underlined was my NAME. I passed the mouse over my name, and saw YP. Clicked on it, and the White Pages in my area came up with a list of everyone with my name. I found this very disturbing. I'd like to know if this is going to be common practice, or what the explanation is, so I can make my decision as to whether I want to continue to visit this forum. Goes without saying that I edited the post, and will NEVER write my name again on any posts. Has this happened to anyone else, or am I the first.

I posted a thread in the legality forum, and at the end of my post, I wrote my name, as I often do. Once I submitted the post, a few words were highlighted in orange, and had double lines under them. I've seen this before, not even questioning it. However, one of the words highlighted, an underlined was my NAME. I passed the mouse over my name, and saw YP. Clicked on it, and the White Pages in my area came up with a list of everyone with my name. I found this very disturbing. I'd like to know if this is going to be common practice, or what the explanation is, so I can make my decision as to whether I want to continue to visit this forum. Goes without saying that I edited the post, and will NEVER write my name again on any posts. Has this happened to anyone else, or am I the first.

Phil, first, thanks for your attention. I don't know what browser, do you mean like Explorer? So, are you saying that none of the words in Orange, double underlined can be seen by you? All I know is that I can see certain words in Orange, double underlined, and when you pass the curser over them, an ad pops up. The ad over my name was for YP. when I clicked on it, I got the local phonebook with all person with my name, except I wrote my first name, and these people had their last name same as my first. If this is some kind of browser, or whatever, I'd love to have someone help me to get rid of it. Thanks....

think what you want but all browsers are still tied to internet explorer in some way.

thank m$ for that one!!!!

think what you want but all browsers are still tied to internet explorer in some way.

thank m$ for that one!!!!