Beware: Jeffbert's threads have login prompts

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Beware: Jeffbert's threads have login prompts

Postby jeffbert » 17 years ago

Once again, Bullguard has declared my public folder as private. Thus, every time anyone, myself included, visits any page that has even one (1) link to one of my images hosted by Bullguard, that person will see a login prompt. In fact, as many login prompts as there are links to images.

If you see any suspicious login prompt, do not panic. Just click Cancel.

Unfortunately, these prompts are anywhere my images once were, including threads started by others. My appologies, but I hope that this will be resolved soon. :p irate:
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Postby CommanderEVE » 17 years ago

what is a prompt anyhow? :)

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Postby jeffbert » 17 years ago

"Sparx" wrote:what is a prompt anyhow? :)

If you want to see for yourself, Click here. Just remember, when you see the prompt, click Cancel. :hyo:
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Postby CommanderEVE » 17 years ago

i didn't let me go to the link. it said "Authorization Required" i needed a password thingy :)

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Astro Forever
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Postby Astro Forever » 17 years ago

Well, that was what a prompt was. ;)

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Postby Spike » 17 years ago

AAAHhh so u mean those stupid little password popup thingy's, i get it now
|^^^^^^^^^^^^^^| |^^^^^^^^^^^^^| ||
| ..SPIKE'S BIGGER!..__| | .......BEER TRUCK.....| ||´|";,___.
|_..._...__________/====|_..._..._______==|=||_|__|..., ] -
"(@)´(@)"""´´" *|(@)(@) "(@)´(@)"""´´"*|(@)(@)****(@)
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Postby CommanderEVE » 17 years ago

i hate thoughs stupid little things. i had one on MSN :shifty:

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Postby Spike » 17 years ago

"Sparx" wrote:i hate thoughs stupid little things. i had one on MSN :shifty:


i especially hate the ones ou get when you surf sites sponsoerd by porn ads, they pretend to be a computer scan popup from your pc but if you don't exit them and click yes it installs porno longdistance dialling exe's. haven't fallen for one yet but they is still annoyin stoopid ****s
|^^^^^^^^^^^^^^| |^^^^^^^^^^^^^| ||

| ..SPIKE'S BIGGER!..__| | .......BEER TRUCK.....| ||´|";,___.

|_..._...__________/====|_..._..._______==|=||_|__|..., ] -

"(@)´(@)"""´´" *|(@)(@) "(@)´(@)"""´´"*|(@)(@)****(@)

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Postby DrFrag » 17 years ago

You can block a lot of ads by changing your "hosts" file. It's in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (if you're using Windows XP, I'm not sure for other operating systems).

Open it with a text editor like notepad, and you can redirect any web site to any IP address. The IP address for yourself is always 127.0.0.1, so if you point all ads sites to that address it won't be able to find them and you won't see them on web pages. Like this:

127.0.0.1 ad.dk.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.be
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.com
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.de
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net

You can find comprehensive hosts files by searching Google. Mine's pretty old but it still blocks most ads.
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Postby CommanderEVE » 17 years ago

"Spike" wrote:i especially hate the ones ou get when you surf sites sponsoerd by porn ads, they pretend to be a computer scan popup from your pc but if you don't exit them and click yes it installs porno longdistance dialling exe's. haven't fallen for one yet but they is still annoyin stoopid ****s


i fell for one of thoughs things :shifty: and i got a silly trojan viruse :mad: my compute started to some wako things :lol:

"DrFrag" wrote:You can block a lot of ads by changing your "hosts" file. It's in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (if you're using Windows XP, I'm not sure for other operating systems).

Open it with a text editor like notepad, and you can redirect any web site to any IP address. The IP address for yourself is always 127.0.0.1, so if you point all ads sites to that address it won't be able to find them and you won't see them on web pages. Like this:

127.0.0.1 ad.dk.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.be
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.com
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.de
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net

You can find comprehensive hosts files by searching Google. Mine's pretty old but it still blocks most ads.


thanks, i should try that. :) what would we do thihout you DrFrag :D


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