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Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 14 2004 : 10:07PM
Recently I've been getting a popup saying:

Connect to msnusers.com

Welcome to MSN Communities!
Please sign in with your passport account.

I've already run scans of AdAware and Spybot, but that hasn't stopped this popup from reoccurring every 20 minutes or so.

Does anyone know how to make this stop?


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Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 14 2004 : 10:10PM
I just realized what is causing this. Voyeur32's avatar is from an msnuser site. Every time I open a page on which he has posted, I get this popup.
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GaySatyr
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Half dirty ol' man; half horny ol' goat!
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Posted - Apr 14 2004 : 11:10PM
The Google toolbar (add-on for IE) set with popups disabled controls it with no problems. ~ GS
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Bill All-Star Supporter
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5334 Posts
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Posted - Apr 14 2004 : 11:16PM
i installed the Google toolbar yesterday. It doesn't help with this one.
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barrybrn
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1568 Posts
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Posted - Apr 15 2004 : 1:22AM
I get it alot too Bill. I was wondering the same thing but didn't say anything. It's only when I come to this site and only on certain threads. And my pop-up blocker doesn't catch it either....lol!
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Frigo
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Posted - Apr 15 2004 : 3:06AM
Voyeur32 really should change the location for his avatar!
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Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 15 2004 : 8:08AM
I e-mailed Steph & Drew about this last night and Voyeur32's avatar has been removed.
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Frigo
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Posted - Apr 15 2004 : 8:53AM
great. thanks for that :)
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MLyons
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Posted - Apr 15 2004 : 9:08AM
That explains alot! I was quite confused about what was going on...
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barrybrn
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Posted - Apr 17 2004 : 10:54PM
It's back again for me on threads that Voyeur32 has posted in a get the MSN sign in pop-up....lol! Just when you thought it was safe to open up a thread....
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Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 17 2004 : 11:20PM
I've contacted Steph and Drew again. Hopefully they will get it removed quickly.
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Voyeur32
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Posted - Apr 18 2004 : 1:08AM
ahh. sorry all. How about a little warning to me letting me know this was happening. I would have gladly removed on my own. The title of this thread gave me no indication that I should be seeing this thread and thus realizing the problem. As a matter of fact no one told me the problem and when my avatar was gone I figured it was just a mistake and I put the damn thing back up.

Kimi Lixx,Julie Night,Tina Tyler and then everyone else.

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Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 18 2004 : 11:03AM
You haven't provided an e-mail address.
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Voyeur32
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Posted - Apr 18 2004 : 6:40PM
Bill,
Steph and Drew have it.

Kimi Lixx,Julie Night,Tina Tyler and then everyone else.

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Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 18 2004 : 7:16PM
...which is why I asked them to take care of the avatar. Drew told me that he e-mailed you.
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BIGmike
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Posted - Apr 18 2004 : 7:29PM
I thought that it came from Lee O's posts of the pictures for his polls, because that's when I really noticed them.

- - - B -I -G -m -i -k -e , over & out! - - -

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barrybrn
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Posted - Apr 29 2004 : 8:12PM
Here we go again user Coyote22 uses a avatar from MSN and I get the pop-up in threads he has posted in. This is getting crazy....lol!
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Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 29 2004 : 8:53PM
I've already e-mailed both Coyote22 and Drew requesting that they remove the offending avatar.
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Coyote
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Daylight Savings Time, is it really Necessary?
972 Posts
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Posted - May 3 2004 : 12:56AM
Sorry for causing you all the pain of having pop ups! Just when you thought the problem was solved, BAM, it comes back! LOL. Anway I took care of my Avatar, but now I'm posting here just to say I'm sorry! (but I didn't know)

"Living Life is not made up of material things"

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Em
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198 Posts
4/04
Posted - May 3 2004 : 4:59AM
One can always use a browser that either blocks all popups, or opens only requested ones, like Opera/Mozilla. I haven't seen a popup in years...

Em

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Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - May 3 2004 : 8:16PM
This one isn't really a popup, it just behaves that way. It was the sign-on when attempting to access an msnusers page (where some members have inadvertantly stored their avatars).

Pop-up blockers did nothing to prevent this (nor should they).

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Em
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198 Posts
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Posted - May 3 2004 : 11:50PM
I see. That must have been mighty annoying, then, I agree...

Perhaps one could add a one-liner warning to the avatar guidelines page?

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Drew Black
broken crankshaft

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Posted - May 4 2004 : 12:12AM
I need to write an avatar funciton for the site instead of using the method we currently have. We never intended to support avatars. It just happens to work this way and we never got around to changing it.

I'd prefer to just remove them. IMO they are more of a PITA than anything. They waste bandwidth, cause pages to load slower and generally clutter things up.

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Em
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198 Posts
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Posted - May 4 2004 : 1:12AM
An avatar upload function? I agree about avatars though (and will remove mine in a jiffy). Perhaps, in one go, one could also get rid of the font tags and some html presentational attributes that also clutter the code to a high extent and eat a lot of bandwidth...
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BIGmike
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Posted - May 4 2004 : 1:18AM
I use Opera 7.## and love it, but I don't like Java, so I bought the "light" version, with no Java support, and that can be annoying for website's like this one, and all other websites that use Java.

I haven't seen a popup, a downloader, a hijack, or nothing since I started using Opera, but I have to use Microscrap to access this site among others.

- - - B -I -G -m -i -k -e , over & out! - - -

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Em
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198 Posts
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Posted - May 4 2004 : 1:23AM
BigMike, Opera has one price - for a browser itself. Java is Sun's, and is free. It doesn't matter what you download, with Java or without. If you paid for 7.x, you can always download a new version, with oor without Java, and register it with the same code. You can even have as many registered copies on one computer as you wish, and as far as the HDD can be stretched. My advice then would be to download a new Java-enabled 7.5, and register it. You can always enable/disable it via F12 key.
True. Neither did I have a virus, ever :) I am so glad to see another user!
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BIGmike
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Posted - May 4 2004 : 1:41AM
I'd recommend Opera to anyone tired of Microscrap's crap, I'll have to look into the Java enabled version.

thanks Em.

- - - B -I -G -m -i -k -e , over & out! - - -

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Coyote
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Daylight Savings Time, is it really Necessary?
972 Posts
3/04
Posted - May 4 2004 : 2:11AM
How much and where does one find Opra? It sounds appealing..

"Living Life is not made up of material things"

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Em
Member

198 Posts
4/04
Posted - May 4 2004 : 2:21AM
You can use it for free if you are willing to live with Google ad at the top (half-inch or so). Opera.com Fastest adult browser out there :) You can email me if you need any help
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Drew Black
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Posted - May 4 2004 : 10:57AM
I agree. I'd like to switch to CSS for the forum code. At the moment it's all hardcoded fonts and HTML which are a huge waste of bytes.
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