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Old Dec 10, 2012, 9:49 am
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Originally Posted by SirFlysALot
Rewards flow is a scam. It appears on Facebook also.
I made the mistake of upgrading my browser to IE9 and also started seeing this. Previously I had used IE8 with an addon product that was recommended here called IE7 Pro, which also worked with IE8.

After the update, I started getting that popup as well as double underlined words on websistes that would show an ad if I hovered over it.

From clicking around, I found out it was an addin to the browser that could be uninstalled from control panel. For the life of me, I can't recall the name of it, but if you browse through your installed programs in control panel, you'll see the name of one with (uninstall) next to the name.

Get rid of it and you'll stop those annoying ads.

FWIW - I reverted back to IE8 and my addin started working again. I'm not seeing any annoying ads.
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