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Today, my avast anti virus has stopped several Trojan horses from attacking my computer while ON THIS SITE! what the H is going on around here?!
UPDATE: It seems to have stopped...at least in this section..I had the original issues in the development section...
...very strange...Avast doesn't just "pop off" like that..Something happened lol
Most likely one of the ads. There was a similar issue about a week ago.
Sent from my Aria - CM7 Build 2-28
ok cool...very ironic though, especially for such a tecnical site...lol
I think Avast's latest virus definition update was buggy. I got a malware warning on my yahoo home page. Apparently Avast believes the javascript that controls the "window shade"-style dropdown is malware.
My netbook didn't have this issue because it was running Microsoft Security Essentials. Thus my belief the update was buggy.
Maybe they have also updated on a couple javascript functions which allowed a window to be hijacked in firefox and the user being unable to close it.
Hey guys
I've been noticing this over the last few weeks, and thought I'd throw it out there.
Whenever I visit a forum/thread on xda-developers.com, the page never loads completely. It just sits there reading data from somewhere (Not static, changes.)
Some of the sites I've seen it reading from are:
media.xda-developers.com
ping.crowdscience.com
cdn.eyewonder.com
Looks like it's something to do with ads. Not much of a problem, but thought you might like to be made aware.
The stop button on the browser isn't there for nothing
Herpderp Galaxy Ace.
Never had this problem
Try with an adblock?
Max. (From my Galaxy 2)
EmoBoiix3: This is what I'm doing. It's obviously something that is incorrect on the site though, and thought the admins would like to be advised so they can address it.
Jinsuke32: Which Browser do you use? I get it with Firefox both at home and work, so it can't be just my PC.
MacaronyMax: I have it installed but xda is on the list of exclusions. Support those who support you and what not
Can't say I have seen this either running FF on windows 7 ultimate.
There's nothing they can do about the ad content. If it takes forever to load then it takes forever to load, and that's it I'm afraid.
I recently added some social media links to a bunch of commercial websites and they all started doing the same thing. As soon as I removed the social media links the sites worked fine, so I've stopped using 3rd party stuff as much as possible.
Other than blocking the ads there's no answer to this, unless XDA removes the advertising
No ad blocking for me, running chrome, and I do not have this 'feature'/'issue'.
I tried to go into xda from a PC bookmark, and it redirects to a phishing page... I'm using a bookmark. Made by me at the real site.
I think its an error as it does not allow me to go through by any means.like going to xda and then click on forum...
Now I'm in tapatalk...
Sent from my XT862 using Tapatalk
Me too, no matter where I try to navigate I also get the phishing warning. Was able to get into this because I had this tab open.
gierso said:
I tried to go into xda from a PC bookmark, and it redirects to a phishing page... I'm using a bookmark. Made by me at the real site.
I think its an error as it does not allow me to go through by any means.like going to xda and then click on forum...
Now I'm in tapatalk...
Sent from my XT862 using Tapatalk
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Thanks for your report, I´ll flag an Admin.
Same here - if I access the forum directly from certain machines (which are going through a proxy, if that helps):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/
by bookmark or typing it in, I get the phishing warning. If I click on the "real" forum link - I get the phishing warning again.
I was able to access this link directly via Google.
On Friday, I also got it if I tried to post - so hopefully this post actually gets posted. (Edit: At least posting is working from this machine again...)
It's working fine for me on OSX and Linux. Haven't had any issues.
More detail:
From Firefox on a Windows 7 machine with an undetermined proxy, I get the phishing warning when I attempt to access:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/
If I instead use:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/index.php
It works fine
Works fine in all situations when I'm at home
Entropy512 said:
More detail:
From Firefox on a Windows 7 machine with an undetermined proxy, I get the phishing warning when I attempt to access:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/
If I instead use:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/index.php
It works fine
Works fine in all situations when I'm at home
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On the PC that gets the phishing warning, does it only do it on Firefox, or is it all browsers?
This is from our sysadmin:
For those of you who got the phishing page on Friday (27th), it was a configuration error. We apologize and it was corrected within a few hours of us finding out. One of our Senior Mods was also affected, due to being behind a corporate firewall.
@Entropy512, unfortunately we have had phishing attacks against our members from a domain similar to ours and they are using various proxies to proxy our site and evade our detection/blocks. I highly recommend you don't use a proxy when viewing XDA for the safety of your account.
For everyone else, please be aware that you are on *.xda-developers.com, not a domain similar to it. This is the only domain that the official XDA site is served from. There have been phishing attacks against us and our members and we're doing everything we can to mitigate this.
Hi - My internet browser is Firefox, and I have been using NoScript for years.
There is only one website that causes me constant problems when browsing: XDA Developers.
I use NoScript constantly with a lot of stuff disabled by default: Everything Facebook is always disabled, along with doubleclick and a bunch of other tracking websites.
With NoScript on, the XDA screen is constantly jumping around, with various websites constantly trying to refresh about twice a second. It is so jumpy with embedded websites continuously refreshing, that I can't even control NoScript well enough to enable whatever disabled website(s) are causing the problem.
I wouldn't be frustrated if this happened to me all the time, but XDA is the only website I see this problem on. I would expect a high-tech developer website like XDA to have less problems instead of more problems.
Sigh. I wish somebody at XDA could fix this.
¿GJ?
NoScript has a whitelist feature. If you don't want to use it, you can't expect it to be "fixed" (actually, modified to fit your needs would be a better choice of words) anytime soon, as the forums (and many other forums, in general) rely rather heavily on scripts.
I personally have XDA added to my whitelist.
As for the refreshes, did you make sure it's not another add-on that's conflicting? Start FF in safe mode and check if the issue persists.
Don't know if this helps, but I just tested XDA with NoScript without any issues.
That being said, a lot of features rely on JavaScript, so no guarantee what would happen if you only turned on some of them.
Huh.. I use NS on FF, and have seen no issues. To be sure it is NS, have you told it to temporarily allow all, and see if that fixes it? It could certainly be another issue..
What he could be speaking of is the portal constant refreshing (not on the forum), which also occurs on my differents computers with NS (with xda on whitelist).
For me, everytime I scroll on the portal main page, it refresh itself.
It's weird - Something changed between yesterday and today. Yesterday, this page wouldn't sit still until I was able to do enough "Temporarily allow all this page" button presses (about 5 or 6) to get the page finally stabilized.
Now, everything was stable when I entered XDA with the same "allow" list I had yesterday.
I'm not a big fan of "White List"ing sites, since so many sites have Facebook embedded in them (amongst many other tracking sites I don't like). Ever since Facebook violated my privacy and sucked up my personal contact information without my explicit approval, I ... ...
... well, let's just say I won't "Like" Facebook.
I appreciate the feedback from y'all, and I wish I knew what changed.
Thanks!
¿GJ?
bitpushr said:
Don't know if this helps, but I just tested XDA with NoScript without any issues.
That being said, a lot of features rely on JavaScript, so no guarantee what would happen if you only turned on some of them.
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Divine_Madcat said:
Huh.. I use NS on FF, and have seen no issues. To be sure it is NS, have you told it to temporarily allow all, and see if that fixes it? It could certainly be another issue..
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Some forum features won't work: dropdown menus (e.g. "Go to Page" next to the page numbers, "Quick Links", "Rate thread") search boxes not being cleared automatically when you click them, username/device completion in search boxes or using the new mention feature, share buttons (they won't show how many times X got shared), etc. The WIYIWYG editor obviously doesn't work as well.
The portal's layout is a bit messed up, too.
It's all fixed by adding xda-developers.com to the whitelist. I think you both already have it added (I removed it for testing), which is what you're supposed to do for websites you trust anyway.
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¿GotJazz? said:
It's weird - Something changed between yesterday and today. Yesterday, this page wouldn't sit still until I was able to do enough "Temporarily allow all this page" button presses (about 5 or 6) to get the page finally stabilized.
Now, everything was stable when I entered XDA with the same "allow" list I had yesterday.
I'm not a big fan of "White List"ing sites, since so many sites have Facebook embedded in them (amongst many other tracking sites I don't like). Ever since Facebook violated my privacy and sucked up my personal contact information without my explicit approval, I ... ...
... well, let's just say I won't "Like" Facebook.
I appreciate the feedback from y'all, and I wish I knew what changed.
Thanks!
¿GJ?
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I would suggest using something that will block them on all websites, then. You can probably do it using NoScript's advanced filtering options, but I personally already use AdBlock Plus, and there's a neat list you can subscribe to that will block all those buttons. Get the "Annoyance Block List" from here.
¿GotJazz? said:
It's weird - Something changed between yesterday and today. Yesterday, this page wouldn't sit still until I was able to do enough "Temporarily allow all this page" button presses (about 5 or 6) to get the page finally stabilized.
Now, everything was stable when I entered XDA with the same "allow" list I had yesterday.
I'm not a big fan of "White List"ing sites, since so many sites have Facebook embedded in them (amongst many other tracking sites I don't like). Ever since Facebook violated my privacy and sucked up my personal contact information without my explicit approval, I ... ...
... well, let's just say I won't "Like" Facebook.
I appreciate the feedback from y'all, and I wish I knew what changed.
Thanks!
¿GJ?
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I have the opposite problem it seems, in that if I white-list the site then quite often one of the scripts goes haywire
and refreshes the page repeatedly for several refreshes or until the server complains with an error message about being overloaded.
It has been suggested to me that this may be a 2013 theme problem, so I'm trying the 2010 one for a few days to see if that fixes it.
Nameless One said:
I have the opposite problem it seems, in that if I white-list the site then quite often one of the scripts goes haywire
and refreshes the page repeatedly for several refreshes or until the server complains with an error message about being overloaded.
It has been suggested to me that this may be a 2013 theme problem, so I'm trying the 2010 one for a few days to see if that fixes it.
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@Nameless One: Yes, I've been seeing the "Server Overloaded" error message as well. I wasn't sure if it was NoScript related, though I was beginning to suspect it. I would open the same XDA pages in IE or Chrome without any problem, but see the "Overloaded" error only with Firefox. Usually (but, not always), temporarily enabling all sites fixed that problem for me.
¿GJ?
I have the same constant refresh problem.
The site only works if I set noscript to allow everything globally or if I use IE (ouch).
It feels to me this site is overburdened with ad/tracking scripts and blocking them forces the site to break (admins anti block?).
I will try the 2010 theme idea and report back, also I do have the main domain whitelisted.
--edit--
2010 theme fixes it, so I guess a 2013 theme issue.
Yep - Dumped the 2013 Theme and went back to 2010 Theme.
Everything's groovy now.
¿GJ?
¿GotJazz? said:
Yep - Dumped the 2013 Theme and went back to 2010 Theme.
Everything's groovy now.
¿GJ?
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2013 relies heavily on javascript so I imagine that is why you are having some issues. 2010 uses it much less but you may still see some issues relating to Javascript being blocked, such as menus not working and that sort of thing.
Hi all,
Since I was unable to find a thread or stickey (which are the same actually) to report some website issues I encouter I decided to create this thread.
(perhaps it will be closed and perhaps it will stay open).
In here you can post any website related issues. Is a page not opening, is a link not working? Sometimes even specific browsers will give problems.
Post it here and perhaps the staff will take a look
What kind of information do you need to tell before we (users and staff) can help:
- What page were you visiting or trying to visit (Give the url = website link)
- What Internet Browser were you using and wich version (Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, Google Chrome, Safari)
- What is the operating system your computer or laptop is running on?( Windows 8/7/XP/Vista Mac OS (Give version) )
- What are the stepps you tried yourself? (cleaned cache of webbrowser, rebooted computer etc)
- What kind of Anti Virus software or Firewall are you using (Avast!, AVG, Windows Security Essentials etc)
- If possible give us a screenshot of the problem or error you encounter
This kind of information will help us help you with the problem. Perhaps the cause can be find in there.
For tablet users:
Even visiting this website can give sometimes issues please provide the following details:
- What kind of tablet are you using (Samsung Note, iPad, Nexus 10)
- What kind of OS is running on your tablet (Android 3.x / 4.x or iOS (version number will come in handy)
- What browser were you using ( Google Chrome, Dolpin Brower, Opera (for android devices) or safari (iOS users)
- What kind of steps you tried to fix it yourself? (delete cache and data of the app, reboot device, fixed permissions)
- If possible give is a screenshot of the problem or error
If you encounter any issues please post them here. We'd love to help you
For SPAM USERS go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=306366
For Tapatalk or XDA APP ISSUES go here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=841646
For Operator logo's and country flag issues go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=650541
For reporting intusive ads go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1696660
(In a minute my first issue will be posted here)
Regards,
Mrjraider
So my first issue I encounter was like this:
Tablet: Ipad 3rd generation running iOS 6
Browser used: Safari
Website I tried to visit: www.forum.xda-developers.com/index.php
Problem: Website stays blank and empty. However on my computer (Win 7 Google Chrome no issues)
Any tips?
Performed selfsteps:
- Reboot device (multiple times)
- Deleted date of safari
All the other websits of forum.xda-developers.com seems to work without issues. I've made several posts today with my iPad
(yeah I know this is more of a android website)
Can anybody show me how to name url links??
My phone details :
Rom : carbonrom stable v1.8
Kernel : dorimanx v9.36
Governor : nightmare
No OC or UV
Battery : stock 1650mah
Sent from i9100
budsixz said:
Can anybody show me how to name url links??
My phone details :
Rom : carbonrom stable v1.8
Kernel : dorimanx v9.36
Governor : nightmare
No OC or UV
Battery : stock 1650mah
Sent from i9100
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[URL=http://www.google.com]Write anything here to name your URL[/URL]
It will appear like this :
Write anything here to name your URL
recent changes causing continuous refresh of page
I use Firefox 22.0. I have NoScript installed.
About a week ago, whenever I come to XDA, my page refreshes continuously. I have to hit the "stop" button at just the right moment to get the loop to stop long enough for me to read anything.
I tried temporarily allowing all scripts on this page. This did not change the behavior.
P.S. This only happens if I am logged in. If I log out, behavior returns to normal...
mrjraider said:
Hi all,
Since I was unable to find a thread or stickey (which are the same actually) to report some website issues I encouter I decided to create this thread.
(perhaps it will be closed and perhaps it will stay open).
In here you can post any website related issues. Is a page not opening, is a link not working? Sometimes even specific browsers will give problems.
Post it here and perhaps the staff will take a look
What kind of information do you need to tell before we (users and staff) can help:
- What page were you visiting or trying to visit (Give the url = website link)
- What Internet Browser were you using and wich version (Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, Google Chrome, Safari)
- What is the operating system your computer or laptop is running on?( Windows 8/7/XP/Vista Mac OS (Give version) )
- What are the stepps you tried yourself? (cleaned cache of webbrowser, rebooted computer etc)
- What kind of Anti Virus software or Firewall are you using (Avast!, AVG, Windows Security Essentials etc)
- If possible give us a screenshot of the problem or error you encounter
This kind of information will help us help you with the problem. Perhaps the cause can be find in there.
For tablet users:
Even visiting this website can give sometimes issues please provide the following details:
- What kind of tablet are you using (Samsung Note, iPad, Nexus 10)
- What kind of OS is running on your tablet (Android 3.x / 4.x or iOS (version number will come in handy)
- What browser were you using ( Google Chrome, Dolpin Brower, Opera (for android devices) or safari (iOS users)
- What kind of steps you tried to fix it yourself? (delete cache and data of the app, reboot device, fixed permissions)
- If possible give is a screenshot of the problem or error
If you encounter any issues please post them here. We'd love to help you
For SPAM USERS go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=306366
For Tapatalk or XDA APP ISSUES go here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=841646
For Operator logo's and country flag issues go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=650541
For reporting intusive ads go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1696660
(In a minute my first issue will be posted here)
Regards,
Mrjraider
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RandyB201 said:
I use Firefox 22.0. I have NoScript installed.
About a week ago, whenever I come to XDA, my page refreshes continuously. I have to hit the "stop" button at just the right moment to get the loop to stop long enough for me to read anything.
I tried temporarily allowing all scripts on this page. This did not change the behavior.
P.S. This only happens if I am logged in. If I log out, behavior returns to normal...
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I have also been having this issue, both on Chrome 29 for Windows, and Chrome 29 for Android on my Note 2.
Other threads reporting same issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2197302
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2404881
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391978
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391690
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766646
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2367598
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2418022
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239777
Le bump..
Now we need to collect more issues and perhaps fixes
Restarting Firefox 23.0.1 in safe mode stops the looping, but all of the Search for Your Device and QuickLinks drop downs from the menu open behind the ad at the top of the page.
no issues
RandyB201 said:
Other threads reporting same issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2197302
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2404881
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391978
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391690
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766646
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2367598
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2418022
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239777
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I would love to be able to fix this issue, but I can not recreate this problem so I can't push a fix. Any web developers seeing the reloading problem who can point out the issue?
The only thing I can figure out is that it seems to happen to people with NoScript or AdBlock installed, but I've run the site with both and it doesn't happen to me (in multiple browsers/os). But then again, some people say they don't have it installed and it still does the reloading.
Changing to the 2013 - 1024 theme seems to fix it for folks.
I use an Adblock and I have no issues with the website in that matter. The only thing I encounter at the moment is that I need to login on every page. It seems like I can't be remembered for some reason. Will clear cache tomorrow tho.
mrjraider said:
I use an Adblock and I have no issues with the website in that matter. The only thing I encounter at the moment is that I need to login on every page. It seems like I can't be remembered for some reason. Will clear cache tomorrow tho.
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That's a Chrome issue. I don't have to login every time I go to a new thread but it asks me to login every few hours. Loads of people have reported the issue but afaik there's no known fix other than using a different browser.
I even get logged out on Opera Mini, though I get logged in after clicking on any link on forum, so I don't think it's only Chrome issue
Good Answer!
bitpushr said:
...Changing to the 2013 - 1024 theme seems to fix it for folks.
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Thank you. That seems to have worked for me. I changed to the theme, have closed and reopened the browser, logged in and out and it seems to have stopped....
bitpushr said:
I would love to be able to fix this issue, but I can not recreate this problem so I can't push a fix. Any web developers seeing the reloading problem who can point out the issue?
The only thing I can figure out is that it seems to happen to people with NoScript or AdBlock installed, but I've run the site with both and it doesn't happen to me (in multiple browsers/os). But then again, some people say they don't have it installed and it still does the reloading.
Changing to the 2013 - 1024 theme seems to fix it for folks.
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And XDA is crashing my Chrome desktop browser again...
It always happens when trying to load the ads. I'm running a new computer with windows 8.1. No browser extensions.
For such a tech-oriented site, this is kind of sad. You really need to reign in your advertisers. It's been 2+ years of these issues.
jamus28 said:
And XDA is crashing my Chrome desktop browser again...
It always happens when trying to load the ads. I'm running a new computer with windows 8.1. No browser extensions.
For such a tech-oriented site, this is kind of sad. You really need to reign in your advertisers. It's been 2+ years of these issues.
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This has nothing to do with the original issue. Ads should not be able to crash the browser. I've had them get very slow, we try to weed out any advertisements that are unduly taxing to system resources. We don't pick which ads run on the site. If you are still having issues, you can open a new thread with a full description of the problem. It doesn't sound like it would just be XDA if your computer is crashing.
Closing thread for now as original issue is fixed.