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Old Feb 16, 2012 | 4:11 pm
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Thank you, we are on this!

Thanks. It's happening to me too on my iPad.

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Old Feb 16, 2012 | 4:11 pm
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Happening here too - very annoying.
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Old Feb 16, 2012 | 4:13 pm
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Originally Posted by vasantn
This just started a minute ago. Any FT page that I open scrolls down to the bottom instantly. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Update: Happening with FF but not with IE, so could be something specific to my computer.
Same here on iOS (Safari) so looks site specific
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Old Feb 16, 2012 | 4:20 pm
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I've alerted tech, thank you!
Ibobi, I did a web search and it seems to be hitting multiple InternetBrands sites (HiDef Forum for example)
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Old Feb 16, 2012 | 4:20 pm
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Angry Down-to-Bottom Scrolls & Java Exploit
Originally Posted by vasantn
This just started a minute ago. Any FT page that I open scrolls down to the bottom instantly. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Update: Happening with FF but not with IE, so could be something specific to my computer.
Yes, it's so annoying! On FF w/....... Plus here.

Originally Posted by okazon69
I'm getting an JavaScript Exploit error alert from my AVG on many FT pages...
Starting about 3 days ago on Velentine's Day, I got warning of Java Exploits for at least 5 times by MSE. I see repetitive occurrence of two things:
Java/CVE-2010-0840.OQ &
Java/CVE-2010-3544.AQ.

Are they all related to malicious ad on FT?
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Old Feb 16, 2012 | 4:22 pm
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Originally Posted by vasantn
This just started a minute ago. Any FT page that I open scrolls down to the bottom instantly. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Update: Happening with FF but not with IE, so could be something specific to my computer.
Originally Posted by IBobi
Thank you, we are on this!
Fixed! I'm impressed. ^
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Old Feb 16, 2012 | 4:23 pm
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Whatever the tech folks did, it has stopped for me (Win XP/IE8)
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Old Feb 16, 2012 | 7:30 pm
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I am totally lost here... but so annoying.... and seems like I am not the only one having this problem. sigh!
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Old Feb 17, 2012 | 3:53 am
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Originally Posted by wharvey
I am totally lost here... but so annoying.... and seems like I am not the only one having this problem. sigh!
I just run into a new problem with powerpint.net. My problem is not 2-click of "Back" button though.

Two things I've noticed:

1). FT has been slowing down my browsing speed since I returned home after Chinese New Year. The significant slowness starts on January 27th. However, the slowness hasn't been consistent. There are good days and there are bad days. I just can't tell the pattern.

2). What just happened to me is simply shocking. I was visiting different fora on multiple tabs and decided to pay TB Topics Forum another visit.
2a). I clicked on TB Topics Forum link from FT fora home page.
2b). I then took a look at another tab.
2c). I refreshed TB Topics Forum when I returned to the TB Forum tab.

Guess where FT took me? Here: http://spi.domainsponsor.com/lander.shtml?powerpint.net

Didn't realize powerpint.net can hijack my browsing page to a total spam site.
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Old Feb 17, 2012 | 8:24 am
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I've also been getting it the last few days. Clearly a FT problem.
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Old Feb 17, 2012 | 8:33 am
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I noticed the powerpint.net message this morning, which is related to the scripting message (A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script?) I've been getting for days on FT. FT is unusable in IE.
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Old Feb 17, 2012 | 9:29 am
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The other thing that has been advised many times is to use Firefox with the ....... extension. No ads.
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Old Feb 17, 2012 | 10:06 am
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Originally Posted by cblaisd
The other thing that has been advised many times is to use Firefox with the ....... extension. No ads.
That's exactly what I use. Still that doesn't save me from all the recent acting out on FT, especially not since the Valentine's Day.
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Old Feb 17, 2012 | 10:22 am
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Well, it's a simple enough matter to edit your .hosts file either manually or via the program I linked to above.
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Old Feb 17, 2012 | 1:58 pm
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I have the ads blocked. I use Chrome for a few sites but still prefer IE for a lot of others, including FT. (No flaming, please!)
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