Originally Posted by
BOAC
Keef - "Whether it is something I have added to my machine or something 'on' yours I know not, but I do not see a whiff of viglink anywhere. At what point does the wording appear?"
It was there and hijacking my browser until I loaded the "opt-out" from viglink whereupon it disappeared from the links (as it did for you). Then I closed and reopened Firefox and it was back again. The first fix was to put viglink in my hosts file - that stopped it, but links didn't work. The greasemonkey fix seems to work, and as far as I can tell hasn't slowed down the PC.
I don't like hidden code that redirects my browser: I've been caught that way a couple of times before. I know that some redirects are said to be innocuous, but my attitude to them is the same as to telephone taps.