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Roybertito
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 Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject: Walking babies destroying the forums? |
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Serious post here, move it as you will, I just had to post this.
There's a walking baby (crawling, actually) that's destroying the forums.
You read correctly. Everytime this baby comes around, it freezes the forums.
It's an ad for "Georgia University", I think, and it features a baby who crawls on the screen.
It freezes the forum links while this baby walks, scaring you as it does.
Anyone else demolished it with AdBlocker?
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ShadesOfMe
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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I;ve never seen it?
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Roybertito
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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I just saw it before I made that post, now it's all Expedia ads.
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Emettman
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:47 am Post subject: |
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I've not seen it.
Could you have picked up a piece of spy/adware on your system? |
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alex
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:50 am Post subject: |
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| Emettman wrote: | I've not seen it.
Could you have picked up a piece of spy/adware on your system? |
He said it was an ad for Georgia. Georgia is in the United States so I doubt someone would try to advertise it in england. I haven't seen the ad either, however. |
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Remnant
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:03 am Post subject: |
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| If I use Firefox, this forum usually crashes it, often forcing my system to reboot. Internet Explorer is more durable but it still crashes once in a while. I think it has to be those ads. I get better results when I scroll down so the banners aren't visible. |
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Archimedes
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:01 am Post subject: |
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| I've never seen that particular one, but I have seen ones where you try to click on something moving or throw some ball or whatever -- and that take over Firefox. Is that a way of getting attention to that ad, by bogging down the browser if you don't do what's in it? |
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PlatypusMan
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't seen the ad, but it is (most likely) a Flash movie; have you dtried updating your Flash player and browser version? Some of the Flash ads, if you right clikc, you can click "Play" to stop it.
Hijacking the links of the page is most likely in the movie's actionscript.
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mikibacsi1124
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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I thought this was going to be a rant on how childish some of the people are here  |
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Laz
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Georgia is in the United States |
Well technically its a country too |
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ZedSimon
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| When did they secede, those dirty southernas? |
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Emettman
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odeon
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:23 am Post subject: |
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I love the title of this thread.  |
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nirrti_rachelle
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:58 am Post subject: |
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You're not talking about that dancing baby from "Ally McBeal", are you?
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Remnant
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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| At best some of these ads make my machine run quite slowly. I have a Samual 2 processor supposedly an Athlon 2000 XP equivalent (ha ha) so even with its limitations it should take a lot to slow it down. |
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