Ok so the last two times that I've responded to a post through my email, it's got all screwed up. I end up getting 27 windows opening of bootsnall as soon as I hit submit.
I don't know why this is happening, but I end up having to take the battery out of my laptop and reboot to get rid of them, otherwise they keep opening...
Thought I'd mention it.
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Posts: 1217 | Location: Canada | Registered: 10 January 2005
PC. I use internet explorer and Telus Webmail. It's only happened with the Bootsnall website, which I thought was weird.
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Posts: 1217 | Location: Canada | Registered: 10 January 2005
I blame Telus. But, then, I always do. I used to work in their tech support call centre, and my experience is that if there's a way to mess things up, Telus will find it.
I think I'll leave it to Chris, though. I couldn't explain it, and it's not a problem I've ever encountered, despite using several different computers and browsers with boots.
I've been getting this in the past few days on random areas of the boards. My suspicion would be a maliciously crafted (with some script on the load event) advertisement rather than a shonky post, since it appears in different places. It's one of those that whatever you click it hijacks you to their (fake) anti-spyware site which, if you take them at their tell-tale grammatically incorrect word, will duly install something bad on your machine while claiming to make it better, in an effort to make you buy their PC 'cleaning' software. Wankers:
Very very tedious. The only way out of it is to kill the browser process. I shall be blocking all popups from BnA from here on, although that may not do the trick, depending on where the ad's hosted.
FWIW, although it's not really relevant in this case: XP Pro SP2, FF2.
[EDIT]Hmm - I already have popups blocked by default and I explicitly blocked this site's URL yesterday, clearly to no avail.
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Posts: 682 | Location: Edinburgh, UK | Registered: 08 December 2005
On a similar note, over the past bit (week?) I have been getting lots of 'never finished loading' problems...where the little spinning dial goes and goes and goes even though the BnA page seems to have finished loading. Sometimes it happens when I post: the little window stays up, tells me thank you, but never closes and refreshes the main window (or just takes a really long time).
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Posts: 3119 | Location: Zürich | Registered: 28 August 2005
Originally posted by RalphTheWonderLlama: I've been getting this in the past few days on random areas of the boards. My suspicion would be a maliciously crafted (with some script on the load event) advertisement rather than a shonky post, since it appears in different places. It's one of those that whatever you click it hijacks you to their (fake) anti-spyware site which, if you take them at their tell-tale grammatically incorrect word, will duly install something bad on your machine while claiming to make it better, in an effort to make you buy their PC 'cleaning' software. Wankers:
Very very tedious. The only way out of it is to kill the browser process. I shall be blocking all popups from BnA from here on, although that may not do the trick, depending on where the ad's hosted.
FWIW, although it's not really relevant in this case: XP Pro SP2, FF2.
[EDIT]Hmm - I already have popups blocked by default and I explicitly blocked this site's URL yesterday, clearly to no avail.
This is happening to me too, about 5 times over the past 3 days.
The pop-ups appear to be caused by some of the ads running on our 3rd party ad network. We've repeatedly told them no pop-ups or non-user activated shenanigans and obviously they've chosen to forget that. We're getting them removed as quickly as we can. Sorry about the hassle. We hate those too.
I'd be curious to know if this has happened to anyone else. 
