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English forum => Small talk => Topic started by: Capt. Matt on October 18, 2009, 03:11:28

Title: Firestar
Post by: Capt. Matt on October 18, 2009, 03:11:28: Shane told me to tell everyone this:

"I'm unable to go on the forum because every time I try going to it it loads for 1 second, then tries to redirect me to some sort of ad site I think, but WOT and AVG block it so I can't get on."
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Kapn Jonah on October 18, 2009, 03:16:10: What a shame :-[
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: mvsmith on October 18, 2009, 04:53:22: Hi Matt,
Perhaps Shane could get in by using a link directly to a board, rather than the main entry.
Another possibility is that he is triggering one of the ads at the bottom of the forum page. Iâ€™ve had that happen to me a couple of times while going to another page.
Regards,
Marty
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: saltydog on October 18, 2009, 05:32:55: Isn't WOT an advisory feature (add-in for Firefox, add-on for IE)..? I don't think it blocks anything..
Perhaps he should check his cookies.. :)
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Capt. Matt on October 18, 2009, 14:33:00: Thanks Guys, I will inform him of these replies ;)

We can only hope they work
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Minime on October 18, 2009, 23:35:47: Message from Shane:

"Hello everybody, I'm still working on correcting this. Tomorrow I am going to try emptying my cookies and my cache. Also, SaltyDog, WOT does in fact block something if you type a bad site into the address bar.
Thanks,
Shane"
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Wave Music on October 18, 2009, 23:36:56: Hopefully he returns someday... A bit boring on forum without Shane!
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Minime on October 18, 2009, 23:38:25: seems empty, doesn't it?
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Wave Music on October 18, 2009, 23:39:08: Yes, nothing interesting to read now.
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: TJK on October 19, 2009, 00:24:44: So make some fun your self then.
but remember forum rules :police:
Tore
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Wave Music on October 19, 2009, 00:28:00: Quote from: TJK on October 19, 2009, 00:24:44
So make some fun your self then.
but remember forum rules :police:
Tore

Tore, what are you hinting on?
Sure I won't go & post different rubbish all across the forum, because it's late now & I need a... :sleepy:
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: TJK on October 19, 2009, 00:30:21: Quote from: Wave Music on October 19, 2009, 00:28:00
Tore, what are you hinting on?
Sure I won't go & post different rubbish all across the forum, because it's late now & I need a... :sleepy:
:lol: i know that my friend it was the mod that talked :2thumbs:
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: mvsmith on October 19, 2009, 13:36:33: Quote from: Minime on October 18, 2009, 23:35:47
Message from Shane:

Tomorrow I am going to try emptying my cookies...

I donâ€™t know if that will fix his computer problem, but itâ€™s an effective, temporary, relief from seasickness.

Good luck to Shane.
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Agent|Austin on October 19, 2009, 18:12:24: Use a different browser until he gets firefox fixed?
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Jayshum on October 21, 2009, 04:24:30: I think I know the solution. Tell him to deactivate AVG safesearch in Firefox.

Tools>Add-ons>Extensions>AVG Safesearch, and Disable.

I was suffering a similar problem last week, but not with this forum. Nearly everything else though.
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Capt. Matt on October 21, 2009, 20:50:47: Thanks Ill Let him know :thumbs:
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Mad_Fred on October 21, 2009, 20:55:50: Also,

It seems the problem has been corrected.. I had the same thing (although you can just click the 'ignore this warning' link and still open the website) but it is now no longer an issue for me. Vstep knew about this issue, and went and had a talk with the ads people. :thumbs:

Seems fixed! Let's hope Shane can get back on now!

Fred
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: IRI5HJ4CK on October 22, 2009, 06:36:23: Hi Fred,

I'll let him know if I see him today before yourself,

Jack.
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: firestar12 on October 22, 2009, 16:46:32: Guess who's back? ;D
Clearing my cookies and Cache was all it took.

And before I forget, Fred, I don't know if Jack told you but hitting the "Go to anyway" fuction did not work, it simply made me go to an actual ad site, not the forum.
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Mad_Fred on October 22, 2009, 16:51:29: Quote from: Firestar on October 22, 2009, 16:46:32
Guess who's back? ;D
Clearing my cookies and Cache was all it took.

And before I forget, Fred, I don't know if Jack told you but hitting the "Go to anyway" fuction did not work, it simply made me go to an actual ad site, not the forum.

Yeah with me too, but then when I hit 'previous site' it would pop back to the forum instead of the warning message page. :-\

and err.. I don't think it was to do with your cookies, vstep took care of the problem, the problem was not actually on your computer.

Anyways, good to see you on again, welcome back! :2thumbs:
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: firestar12 on October 22, 2009, 16:52:11: Quote from: Mad_Fred on October 22, 2009, 16:51:29
Yeah with me too, but then when I hit 'previous site' it would pop back to the forum instead of the warning message page. :-\

and err.. I don't think it was to do with your cookies, vstep took care of the problem, the problem was not actually on your computer.

Anyways, good to see you on again, welcome back! :2thumbs:
Haha...thanks! ;D
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Tomaten on October 22, 2009, 17:46:10: welcome back :2thumbs:
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Minime on October 22, 2009, 18:52:33: long time no see Shane(on the forum)
Good to have you back ;)
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: saltydog on October 22, 2009, 21:08:31: Hey, tossed your cookies eh..? ;D
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Wave Music on October 22, 2009, 21:15:49: Quote from: saltydog on October 22, 2009, 21:08:31
Hey, tossed your cookies eh..? ;D

For such cases I have a CCleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/) installed - just select what you want to clean & it does the rest. ;D
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: firestar12 on October 23, 2009, 20:43:21: It just happened again, I got redirected while looking at a topic. I cleared my cookies and I got back in. I suspect the ads keep trying to load me to places, I don't like them one bit.
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Wave Music on October 23, 2009, 20:46:16: Block them?
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: firestar12 on October 23, 2009, 20:51:09: Quote from: Wave Music on October 23, 2009, 20:46:16
Block them?
The ads? There is an ad blocker for FireFox, I'll check that out. But I'm not happy that VSTEP allows these ads to distribute cookies that redirect me to strange places.
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: saltydog on October 23, 2009, 21:24:32: I only just noticed that I have an adblocker for Firefox, it's called ABP
Must have added it some time ago..
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: TerryRussell on October 23, 2009, 21:57:24: Quote from: Firestar on October 23, 2009, 20:51:09
The ads? There is an ad blocker for FireFox, I'll check that out. But I'm not happy that VSTEP allows these ads to distribute cookies that redirect me to strange places.

err... they don't. They are just adverts that appear in various places on the page. No redirection involved.
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: firestar12 on October 23, 2009, 22:02:14: Are you sure Terry? Then why was I redirected?
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: saltydog on October 23, 2009, 22:14:58: I sometimes get a strange thing when logging in: all I see is llamalords sig..
After a second try it goes away..
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Wave Music on October 23, 2009, 22:19:01: Quote from: saltydog on October 23, 2009, 22:14:58
I sometimes get a strange thing when logging in: all I see is llamalords sig..
After a second try it goes away..

Because "I reject your reality and substitute my own!", as Almighty Lord Of The Holy Llamas says in his sig. ;D
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: TerryRussell on October 25, 2009, 15:48:47: Quote from: Firestar on October 23, 2009, 22:02:14
Are you sure Terry? Then why was I redirected?

There are so many user-adjustable settings in IE and Firefox, not to mention your antiviral software and firewall software that it is almost impossible to guess which one or combination it was, but almost certainly, it was one or more of them... ;)

My suspicion is that it was AVG again. Last year (or was it the year before?) they had an episode when AVG kept telling me that my copy of Ship Simulator was infected and was trying to delete it for me. When I spoke to AVG, it was one of their detection heuristics that was mis-identifying a sequence of bytes in a mission that I had written (!!!!). Ship Simulator was OK. AVG was defective.

As they hadn't corrected it three weeks later, I wiped AVG and got Norton 2009 which is so much better than it has been for some years. No problems since.
Title: Re: Firestar
Post by: Capt. Matt on October 25, 2009, 16:34:24: Quote from: Wave Music on October 23, 2009, 22:19:01
Because "I reject your reality and substitute my own!", as Almighty Lord Of The Holy Llamas says in his sig. ;D

He Got that from Adam on Mythbusters ;) ;D ::) :doh: