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What's going on with Free Republic?
10-3-03
Posted on 10/03/2003 5:27:04 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
When I click on the word "Free Republic," at the top of the screen, a window pops up asking me to approve a file download from FR. What is this all about?
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To: Paul Atreides
You've got a trojan on your system. Get Ad-Aware and clean that stuff out.
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posted on
10/03/2003 5:27:33 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(tpaine says, "Don't post to me anymore." <- guess he lost that argument. Don't kill babies, people!!)
To: Paul Atreides
Not happening here. Clear your cookies.
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posted on
10/03/2003 5:28:05 PM PDT
by
Leroy S. Mort
(If you don't like whup-ass, don't open the can,)
To: thoughtomator
Thanks!
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posted on
10/03/2003 5:28:34 PM PDT
by
Paul Atreides
(Bringing you quality, non-unnecessarily-excerpted threads since 2002)
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posted on
10/03/2003 5:29:41 PM PDT
by
Support Free Republic
(Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
To: Paul Atreides
its nothing. just say yes and it will be fine.
(i'm keeeeding)
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posted on
10/03/2003 5:32:28 PM PDT
by
isom35
To: Paul Atreides
What's the download? Perhaps your browser's not set to display .html in the browser? Hard to tell.
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posted on
10/03/2003 5:33:53 PM PDT
by
lelio
To: lelio
The filename is "freerepublic."
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posted on
10/03/2003 5:36:38 PM PDT
by
Paul Atreides
(Bringing you quality, non-unnecessarily-excerpted threads since 2002)
To: Leroy S. Mort
Will do.
Oh...you said CLEAR your cookies. Sorry. :o)
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posted on
10/03/2003 5:36:42 PM PDT
by
arasina
To: Paul Atreides
I got this error this morning as well. I went to "Internet Options", and did a "clear history" and "delete all files", then everything worked.
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posted on
10/03/2003 5:37:40 PM PDT
by
EvilOverlord
(Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of evil-doers to the ends of the earth)
To: Paul Atreides
I have a wonderful little free program called SpyBot that works great on removing sneaky files. Another good one is RegCleaner --- obviously to clean your registry of any bad guys --- also free.
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posted on
10/03/2003 5:39:18 PM PDT
by
arasina
To: Paul Atreides
Are you logged on?
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posted on
10/03/2003 5:45:38 PM PDT
by
Possenti
To: Paul Atreides
There's been a couple of times in two years that images that were supposed to load up somehow acted like a file download. There have also been times I was in the cache, trying to open image files in another window, and they acted like downloads.
I'd first off clean out the cache and all useless cookies.
I'd also suggest SpyBot, the latest version is 1.2
http://security.kolla.de/ Also use Hijack This ( adirect download link, by the way):
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip Hijack This can create a startup list that might reveal some problems, that you can copy and paste and some of us can help look it over. Look under Config>Misc Tools.
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posted on
10/03/2003 5:46:07 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered.…©)
To: EvilOverlord
That did the trick! Thanks so much. I was scared that FR had been hacked or something.
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posted on
10/03/2003 5:46:23 PM PDT
by
Paul Atreides
(Bringing you quality, non-unnecessarily-excerpted threads since 2002)
To: arasina
If you're talking about the same one I have (4.3 build 780) then sadly it's no longer free.
http://www.jv16.org/ You might still find it with a Google search or on ZDNet maybe?
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posted on
10/03/2003 5:51:31 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered.…©)
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