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firestar12

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Re: Firestar
« Reply #25 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.
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Wave Music

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Re: Firestar
« Reply #26 on: October 23, 2009, 20:46:16 »

Block them?
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firestar12

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Re: Firestar
« Reply #27 on: October 23, 2009, 20:51:09 »

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.
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saltydog

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Re: Firestar
« Reply #28 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..
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TerryRussell

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Re: Firestar
« Reply #29 on: October 23, 2009, 21:57:24 »

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.
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firestar12

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Re: Firestar
« Reply #30 on: October 23, 2009, 22:02:14 »

Are you sure Terry? Then why was I redirected?
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saltydog

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Re: Firestar
« Reply #31 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..
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Wave Music

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Re: Firestar
« Reply #32 on: October 23, 2009, 22:19:01 »

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
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TerryRussell

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Re: Firestar
« Reply #33 on: October 25, 2009, 15:48:47 »

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.
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Capt. Matt

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Re: Firestar
« Reply #34 on: October 25, 2009, 16:34:24 »

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:
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