A lot more adverts recently.

(I was only joking about not posting anything sensitive. I don't really think GN is being hacked! ) #just kiddingaround

Thank you for the reply.

Shysal I know nothing about touch screens - The most up-to-date thing I have is a wireless mouse (very handy, except that because it is not connected to the laptop it gets its power from a battery - which was dead this morning so I had to ransack the house for a replacement before I could log in. Couldn't even revert to the finger-pad thingy because I had turned that off to stop it twitching when ever I brushed my hand over it by mistake)

Oh yes! It's probably just a cookie doing whatever cookies do.

#boring

Thanks Elegran, my computer knowledge is very liimited. Do you know how I would do that on a touch screen?

shysal I assume you do know that if you want to capture the whole screen for posterity, you press a key on your PC/laptop labelled "Print Screen" or "Prt Sc" ? You can then paste it from the clipboard into any graphics programme, like Paint, and read the numbers off that were about to vanish.

Ignore me if I am teaching you to suck eggs.

I think it must be some kind of reference number which sends the advert selector off to find the right adverts for you personally, and once it has done that it disappears.
Is it the same each time it comes up, or does it change each time?

I Googled the one you posted, ana but Google said it could not find it, so it is not the name of a virus - someone somewhere has mentioned all of those somewhere on the net.

I can't see them any more. They appeared when I clicked on 'I'm on' on my tablet. I tried to copy and paste but couldn't do it. I have only done it with urls before, so maybe I was getting it wrong. I just touched and held - is that right? It highlighted but didn't give the option to cut/paste etc. What is the equivalent of right click on a touch pad? I have changed to laptop now but can't see the letters at all. The sequence began the same as Ana's but was not the same each time for me and were sometimes one line long and sometimes 2 lines.
The thick plottens!

Oh! I did some extra clicking. Found page source. Comes out very long then.

Cari has got her hands full. #gasmansbeen

Oh. Mine came out a longer than that.

I did copy and paste it! It's up there ^(a few posts)

Shy should do it as well.

I think you should copy and paste it. So that we can check that is the same one.

Cari is probably doing Twitter. -- She usually is--. Perhaps we could get a message through to her.

Kat never did tell us what was going on. I think no one should post anything at all sensitive over the weekend.

I'm not that worried really!

We've got no one we can phone.

I thought that, about the weekend....

OMG!!! Just when I've got rid of it. This is weird.

AND it's the weekend when there's no one around to sort it out. Just like when I had it. Hacker?!

Oh I see! I thought it must be a computer virus thingy...

It isn't a thing. It is said when someone catches a cold or something from someone else - is smitten by it, I suppose. Not sure whether it is a Scottish/Fife expression or not. The genuine Fifers and other teuchters will know.

I suppose if everyone used Adblock plus, the advertisers would give up on G'net! But I do.

Smit?? What's a smit Elegran?
Is it dangerous...?

You've got the smit, Ana Shysal Has Jo been sneezing near you?