Pop Ups? Anyone still seeing them?

[Stoplight]

Re: zbots

Been out of town a few says...

Good news ? No longer getting the pop-under tabs !!! Thanks, Tom !

Bad news ? Getting logged off when trying to respond to threads....Is this something new, or did I miss something ???


Stoplight...

 

[burrocrat]

Re: zbots

What's funny Burro is that I try not to click on anything that isn't certified or isn't on the up and up.

well then that's your problem right there. by only hovering over safe sites, you prevent the porn bots from doing what they do best, which is eliminate all competition and hog the channel, aggregating the disease. porn is, after all, selfish. so let them do what they are good at, squeezing out the sneakier 'legitimate appearing' players, get down an dirty with them, then you snare them in your net, sometimes to catch phish you gotta cut bait. the porn bots are easy to spot and clean up after. you are asking for trouble insisting on only tested safe offerings, usually those are the biggest liars and cheats.

just sharing from personal experience... always glad to help out a friend.

 

[Stoplight]

FS,

Not related to your situation, but I feel your pain !!!

We're fighting with our credit card company over a fraudulent billing...turns out the Wife made a purchase from a Pinterest vendor...I see where there has been a card skimming code inserted into the web sites of 6,000 vendors... These Ma and Pop stores don't have the knowledge or resources to police their web sites...so we (or the credit card company !) get screwed !

In my card company's defense, they have again reversed charges, when I was presented a receipt from the billing company, and again protested it !!! So I haven't paid it yet...but what a PITA !!! I suspect the card company will eat it...'cause I'm damn sure not going to !!!

Be careful out there....

Stoplight...

 

[tsptalk]

Re: zbots

Been out of town a few says...

Good news ? No longer getting the pop-under tabs !!! Thanks, Tom !

Bad news ? Getting logged off when trying to respond to threads....Is this something new, or did I miss something ???

I tried to add another layer of protection via a firewall, once the malware was cleaned. Unfortunately that led to about a half dozen people - of those who reported it - not being able to login this morning, so I deactivated the firewall.

I haven't heard of anyone getting logged out besides you, but I've had a few issues uploading files onto the server, so I don't know what is happening. Settings have been changed and it apparently has an impact.

I plan to implement the firewall again but probably not until later on Friday after the IFT deadline.

 

[Stoplight]

Re: zbots

I tried to add another layer of protection via a firewall, once the malware was cleaned. Unfortunately that led to about a half dozen people - of those who reported it - not being able to login this morning, so I deactivated the firewall.

I haven't heard of anyone getting logged out besides you, but I've had a few issues uploading files onto the server, so I don't know what is happening. Settings have been changed and it apparently has an impact.

I plan to implement the firewall again but probably not until later on Friday after the IFT deadline.

Got it, Tom !!!

Seems okay now...but will post here if the log off issue returns !!!


Stoplight...

 

[burrocrat]

Re: zbots

I tried to add another layer of protection via a firewall, once the malware was cleaned. Unfortunately that led to about a half dozen people - of those who reported it - not being able to login this morning, so I deactivated the firewall.

I haven't heard of anyone getting logged out besides you, but I've had a few issues uploading files onto the server, so I don't know what is happening. Settings have been changed and it apparently has an impact.

I plan to implement the firewall again but probably not until later on Friday after the IFT deadline.

i get "logged off" when i try to access or respond to restricted politics threads. but not on the pc's i access tsptalk with, only my android phone. i can be logged into the forum with the pc's and when clicking politics or "reply to thread" then things work great now. but when i do the same on my phone, i have to re-login on the new page. when i go back to the forum main page i have to re-log in to that too. and re-login to any new politics thread. if i stay out of the politics threads requiring permission then this multiple login and booted out thing does not happen. but only on my phone, not on the pc's.

at first i thought maybe julian assange or the clinton campaign was trying to send me a message (which is different than sending me a massage - way different - yuck), like a vast ecuadorian conspiracy or something, but then i used my thinker, i do that sometimes. and i thinked that it is probably a compatibility issue between tsptalk security settings and certain operating or browser software settings. with the diverse digital universe we all now live in no matter how much we pretend we don't want to, these kind of conflicts are bound to happen in a free exchange world. at least until we all agree to move to the bottom of the sea and live in a yellow submarine and trade insults on a holistic homogenic isolated intranet with a sanitized steve jobs pokemon skin, not the wild west internet thingy al gore invented. thanks a lot al gore.

 

[Buster]

After trolling around the site for a few days now, I get this;

 

[nnuut]

?:worried:

 

[Buster]

?:worried:

Means there is no problems Norm..

 

[burrocrat]

Re: computer issues

View attachment 39776

 

[FogSailing]

bugs in the machine

Sorry to hear of your problems with the credit card Stoplight. Decided to buy the extended Dell warranty to get their technician to kill the bugs in my machine and reformat my hard drive with new OSS. Hopefully
Lly I'll be back online in a few more days. What a pain. Bought McAfee Security Suite for all the home machines. Was disappointed that AVG didn't do the job. Think it's time to pull out the bourbon for a little stressed releiver.

FS

 

[tsptalk]

Re: bugs in the machine

Is anyone around today that was having problems logging in back when we did the the pop up fix last week?

I may try to implement the new firewall again but I need to test the login problem. Once I have someone I can test this with, I'll activate the firewall again and we'll see if you can still login.

If you can't login later, use the tom@tsptalk...... address to contact me.

Thanks

 

[burrocrat]

i'm around. i can check with home computer and phone if needed.

say, this isn't going to be one of those tests where the little grey guys take me up in that saucer again and download all my smarts is it? i think they were guys, they were definitely grey.

 

[tsptalk]

Thanks. I've made the change but it may take a little while to propagate through the site.

 

[burrocrat]

so far it's seamless, no hitches, at least on home computer laptop ms windows 10 running 'explorer' browser. log in once to tsptalk forums and move between regular and political threads back and forth with no new windows or re-logins.

i'll check on my phone too.

 

[tsptalk]

I'm sorry. It probably hasn't implemented yet. It could take some time, but by later this afternoon or evening. If you're around to check, that's great but don't cancel any dates or anything for us.

 

[burrocrat]

Re: zbots

no probs from phone either. can move around website freely without stumbling blocks.

sent from an lg g5 android running whatever is the latest marshmellow or whatever, you know, like a magic pocket computer or something.

and no saucers or grey guys either.

 

[burrocrat]

I'm sorry. It probably hasn't implemented yet. It could take some time, but by later this afternoon or evening. If you're around to check, that's great but don't cancel any dates or anything for us.

oh that sucks. last time i went on a date i almost got arrested.

 

[emily]

Re: bugs in the machine

Is anyone around today that was having problems logging in back when we did the the pop up fix last week?

I may try to implement the new firewall again but I need to test the login problem. Once I have someone I can test this with, I'll activate the firewall again and we'll see if you can still login.

If you can't login later, use the tom@tsptalk...... address to contact me.

Thanks

I was able to log in about an hour ago and again now.

 

[tsptalk]

Re: bugs in the machine

Thanks. I can see the changes haven't fully propagated so the problems may still be to come.