http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier Just another bbPress community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 04:46:36 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/3#post-196759 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:35:26 +0000 gadgetgirl 196759@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>I wonder if it's some configuration of Firefox that messes up with certain ads? Clearly it's not a widespread problem and you're quite right MP - it's not something for the forum guys to waste time on. It may be a bug in firefox for all we know. </p> <p>It's my natural geeky curiousity that makes me want to find out which ad it is though &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/2#post-196747 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:42:09 +0000 tito 196747@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>I'm hopeless at technical stuff. &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_rolleyes.gif&quot; title=&quot;:roll:&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> <p>Is it a problem with your computer itself? </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/2#post-196745 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:36:35 +0000 monochromeprincess 196745@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>I've tried everything, Tito, that me and my sister can think of.</p> <p>That's interesting Flip that it doesn't do it again on reload. For example just now, I crashed and re-opened about 7 times reading F-A-D and then getting here, but the last 3 or 4 pages I've navigated through are fine, which sort of confirms to me that it is a particular advert that 'rolls over'. I mean I don't know much about the technical side, but I know the ad space is completely uncontrolled by whatever site it's being used on (hense why I'm not complaining to Andrew about my Firefox crashing business - because I doubt it's something he has any control over). So I mean, even if we work out what ad (or more likely, which type of ad it is), I don't see a real advantage to having that information - unless you can think of anything?</p> <p>That's cool tally - what's NoScript ?</p> <p>Thanks for your concern about my crashingness everyone :D.</p> <p>mp xxx </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/2#post-196329 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:13:00 +0000 tallyg 196329@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>My Firefox is running fine, the only difference I can see is that I'm running NoScript... I dunno if that might help, I've never seen this malware on the site either. </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/2#post-196321 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:51:22 +0000 gadgetgirl 196321@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>That's exactly what I'm getting MP (although it's a Mac equivalent crash message). If I look at the error reporting message it tells me a forum page was to blame. &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_sad.gif&quot; title=&quot;:(&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; :( Restarting with the same page (and exisiting tabs) doesn't cause it to crash again straight away so I don't understand. I could give Safari a go instead but I don't like it as much as Firefox. </p> <p>It's not keeping me from visiting obviously. F-A-D is worth a few crashes &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_lol.gif&quot; title=&quot;:lol:&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> <p>*edit* reread the rest of the thread and see MP has noticed it's only some ads. Wonder if I can work out which? </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/2#post-196317 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:42:34 +0000 tito 196317@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>That's a shame. Can you get it fixed?. </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/2#post-196291 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:17:57 +0000 monochromeprincess 196291@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>You'd be surprised how much you get used to it actually ;). When it first started happening, I became a tomato about to explode each time, but now I just don't get mad at it. And tbh, I don't come on the forum as much as I used to. Lots of reasons really.</p> <p>mp xxx </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/2#post-196245 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:43:02 +0000 tito 196245@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>Mine hasn't been like that.</p> <p>Monochromeprincess, that's a real pain in the wotsit for you! &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_sad.gif&quot; title=&quot;:(&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/2#post-196239 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:36:49 +0000 monochromeprincess 196239@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <blockquote><p><cite>gadgetgeekgirl <a href="http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/2#post-196193">said</a>:</cite><br /> I keep having problems with firefox crashing when I browse the forum. Is anyone else having this? I don't know if it's related to the virus popup stuff.</p></blockquote> <p>I've had that since 2.1 went live - this what you mean?<br /> <a href="http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo162/hoodedwoodlandwanderer/firefoxhasplentyofproblems.png" rel="nofollow">http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo162/hoodedwoo.....oblems.png</a></p> <p>While browsing the forum, this can happen up to 10 times before I've read what I want to - pretty much everytime I open a new page and an ad loads that Firefox loads. But this has also happened to me with photobucket. Pretty much any site that has big ads (though it's fine with Yahoo for some reason). Flip, I have tried everything. I've re-installed Firefox, been though loads of ad-blockers and now I'm just so out of ideas I've learned to live with it. I just make sure that I've done everything I need to do before I browse a site with ads, so I don't lose any online work. Far from ideal, I know. If I get anything that works, I'll let you know. (All I know is I'd rather use a closing Firefox than Internet Explorer!)</p> <p>mp xxx </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/2#post-196195 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:21:35 +0000 tito 196195@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>If it says 'Browser offline' and then you have to turn everything off and restart again then that's happened to me twice on here. </p> <p>Once after pop up and once on it's own. </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/2#post-196193 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:05:12 +0000 gadgetgirl 196193@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>I keep having problems with firefox crashing when I browse the forum. Is anyone else having this? I don't know if it's related to the virus popup stuff. </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/2#post-195105 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:47:54 +0000 Julia from Bristol 195105@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>Sorry to say but this is the only site I have had the messages about this virus. Has anyone had them when on other sites? If not we do need to get the admin crew to look into it! </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/2#post-194961 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:28:17 +0000 Katzilla 194961@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Technology/Fake-Anti-Virus-Software-Cons-Millions-Of-Computer-Users-According-To-Web-Security-Firm-Symantec/Article/200910315409030" rel="nofollow">http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Technology/Fake-A.....0315409030</a> It's my first visit to a site. Strange way of getting rid of me, throwing a virus at me lol! </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/2#post-194919 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:39:05 +0000 Soph 194919@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>Gosh. Well I suppose it's better that it's not stephenfry.com infested. &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_eek.gif&quot; title=&quot;8O&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> <p>I seem to have had a lucky escape, no viruses. Which is a relief. </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/secretsoldier/page/2#post-194897 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:25:43 +0000 Julia from Bristol 194897@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>It was on BBC Breakfast This morning as a news item around 8am </p>