What's happening with AK site? Virus?
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kevzep
Its all about the Music
Same here......
Nitro
Active Member
I posted about 2 weeks ago about the site being extremely slow. That pretty much went away when I switched from 10Mb dsl to 30Mb cable this week. Just lately, I have been having the back button doesn't work, and gotten the redirect page with one ad. Also, a couple times, a page will be glitchy with splotches of other things and make the page unreadable.
Using win8.1, latest firefox.
Problems are only with AK, no other website has these problems. Just checked the box in firefox to not allow tracking. Will see how that goes.
Using win8.1, latest firefox.
Problems are only with AK, no other website has these problems. Just checked the box in firefox to not allow tracking. Will see how that goes.
jcamero
Who are you people anyway?
SoCal Sam
Lunatic Member
There is a backspace key setting in Firefox that must be changed. When I got my new computer, this drive me nuts in ebay listing pages.
The banner ad next to the Pay button remains blank at times, but when I move over it it says "specificmedia.com". Could the problem be with long running scripts from that ad service? I have no idea, just asking.
When I go to a section of the forums like Turntables, if I click on a thread the only way I can get out of it is to go back to AudioKarma.org Home Audio Stereo Discussion Forums and start over again.
When I go to a section of the forums like Turntables, if I click on a thread the only way I can get out of it is to go back to AudioKarma.org Home Audio Stereo Discussion Forums and start over again.
Nitro
Active Member
This behaviour only happens on AK, nowhere else. Edit} just checked, firefox set correctly. by the way, when I hit the edit button, I got the ad on a blank page again, lmao.
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TobascoKid
Active Member
FWIW, another vindicosuite.com ad just now threw me off AK. This time I am on a friend’s computer. Total of three times in two days. What are the odds of both of us having the same virus? I’m using Chrome and he has Firefox.
Both times a Chrysler ad is thrown on the screen.
OOPS- make that four times. It suddenly threw me off AK as I was about to post this!!! And another Chrysler ad.
Both times a Chrysler ad is thrown on the screen.
OOPS- make that four times. It suddenly threw me off AK as I was about to post this!!! And another Chrysler ad.
TobascoKid
Active Member
Again!!! Four times. I think I will give up. They win.
Sandstrom
Seldom turns out the way it does in the song
OK, I have been dealing with this as well, I found the easiest fix in IE is to go to Tools>Safety>ActiveX Filtering
If you enable filtering on my system (Win 7 Professional IE 11) the problem goes away completely, site has sped up and is significantly more stable. If you visit a site where a video/flash content won't play, you may need to re-enable it but it quick to get to in the Tools menu. Just checked YouTube and it does work with the filter active so this may not be an issue for most sites.
Hope this helps some of you IE users.
Brian
If you enable filtering on my system (Win 7 Professional IE 11) the problem goes away completely, site has sped up and is significantly more stable. If you visit a site where a video/flash content won't play, you may need to re-enable it but it quick to get to in the Tools menu. Just checked YouTube and it does work with the filter active so this may not be an issue for most sites.
Hope this helps some of you IE users.
Brian
So far so good . bookmarked for future reference .
Thank you for posting this easy fix:thmbsp:. So far so good. For the first time in about a week I don't have to hit the back button multiple times.
This is UNACCEPTABLE! This Vindico ad scripting is throwing webbugs EXACTLY like some kind of malware attack.
When I go to the next page, it opens 8-10 windows asking me to accept it, and NO, I am not going to simply accept all these bugs.
I click CANCEL 8 or more times to close all the windows and sometimes it opens 3 or 4 more as I am closing the previous ones.
NO OTHER website using this forum software has this kind of out of control ad "service" -
and yes, I do normally use the AK sponsors, but from this point I refuse, just on general principals ..
I am prepaid a year in advance, but I will NOT renew my subscription with this kind of out-of-control adware.
At this point, to hell with the site's revenue streams, I will load an Ad-Killer to my browser so I don't have to be hammered like this.
FIND A BETTER AD SOURCE!
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KentTeffeteller
Gimpus Stereophilus!
Turn off Java for AK only, works for me on Chrome. Browser works faster and AK is stable for me.
whoaru99
Epic Member
They don't, generally speaking.
Some of these problems seem specific to a rather small group of machines. That suggests at least some of the issues are more local than a nefarious and ill-advised business plan to piss off a bunch of potential customers.
whoaru99
Epic Member
Or, maybe uninstall the old crap as suggested by botrytis and ensure you're running the newest version with updates.
