Flash player is locking up the site.  I refuse to be forced in to upgrading.

Flash player is locking up the site.  I refuse to be forced in to upgrading.

Can't do anything without it popping up and lcokinh up

Had to type fast before it happened again.

I'm getting that too.
Hey Mike, I don't like the looks of that.... Any idea what's going on?
 

It has stopped for me, at least for this session.  Maybe Mike's on it.

 

Getting paranoid though.  See my other post.

 

The one about Monster.  Not a Halloween reference although the coincidence is odd.

Edited November 1, 20159 yr by Zed Head

I can't put a flash player on my iPad.

It happened to me too. But when I started to look it up to see how, it quit. Thank goodness!

Flash player isn't required to use the site.  I don't see it, where is this happening?  

Can you send me the URL you opened that wanted flash?

 

FYI, I was playing around with development earlier tonight, maybe it was related.

I actually had the same message on another site, yesterday. I'm guessing that it could be a misbehaving ad.

I think it's the gallery.  I tried uploading a .MOV (video) file from my phone and it's giving me and error too.  Looking into it...

Hi Mike,

 

It was intermittent for me last night and it hasn't happened today (so far). In case you haven't seen it, what would happen is a pop-up window would appear saying something about your flash player was out of date and they recommended an update. The box I got was a little different than the one Zed pictured above, but the concept was the same.

 

My pop-up window had the "click me to close traditional X" in the corner and (I think) the choices of "update now" or "cancel". Of course, you have no idea what any of those buttons REALLY do, so I used task mgr to close the application without hitting any of the buttons.

 

One time, I think I may have hit the traditional "X" instead of using task manager and one of my windows ended up at some numeric only address (didn't display a URL name) and thankfully I got a 404 at that page. I don't know if someone had already shut the web page down or what, but if it had really existed, I have no idea what I might have picked up.

 

I started in safe mode this morning and didn't see anything suspicious in my registry, but then again, I'm no expert and really don't know what I'm looking for. I also took a look back through my browser history and found a couple websites showing up there that I didn't recognize, so I black-listed them. Last night I black-listed:

 

*.exelator dot com"

*.rubiconproject dot com

*.inspsearchapi dot com

 

Note that I had to say "dot" instead of "." because I didn't want any of the links to become active.

I put a picture in Post #2.  You can see the message and pieces of the url.  It's the View New Content page.  Clicking on the X will close it but it would pop right up again, then go to to a dead page which required navigating backward to restart.  All input would then be gone, hence my fast writing and posting, trying to beat the next pop-up.

 

Haven't seen it since then though.  Maybe it was some hacker's virus attempt.  Did anyone click on "OK"?  Maybe some did and now they have to pay a ransom to get their files back.  Who knows.

 

 

I started another thread about Monster apparently being able to read my Hotmail account "cookies" or something and sending me e-mails about Monster.com activity.  Very disturbing.