Weirdness with Advrider & UKGSer

[MikeO]

Today I've experienced some weird behaviour from my laptop when surfing UKGSer & ADVRider. It's difficult to describe, so bear with me.

When I open the link, I get the normal 'photo' page. When I click on the photo, there is a sort of 'double click' and the page sort of jumps slightly before it opens the page, apparently normally. However, when I click on 'New Posts', I get the same 'double wobble' before the page opens. I'll then click on 'go to first unread post', only to find the last post isn't displayed when the page opens. If click the Back button and actually click on the 'last poster' link, it opens correctly, with all posts displayed. It's almost as if there are two versions of the websites involved and I'm switching between them.

I've run AdAware V6, Spybot Search & Destroy & AVG 6 - all of which come up clear (apart from a long standing but fairly benign Trojan Horse in Startup, which I'll purge when I get a chance to re-install that part of XP Home - but it's been there for weeks and not produced these symptoms before).

Sorry if the above description is vague - if you were sitting next to me it would be easy to point it out, but trying to describe it is a bit of a mare...

Any ideas?

Mike

 

[MikeO]

Just checked for updates on AdAware - downloaded V6.181 - ran it and it found 167objects/processes and bots...

So I erased them all, and the problem has gone!

Mike

 

[Trevor S]

So I erased them all, and the problem has gone!

IMO most of 'em come in via Internut Exploder. My suggestion is to use Mozillas opensource browser, Firefox. I use it exclusively on my W2K system.

http://www.mozilla.org/

 

[shugie]

which is fine as far as it goes, but most of the banking websites I use will only accept IE or netscrape. unless some bright spark knows some way of getting firefox, or opera, to spoof a site into believing that they are IE

 

[Droopy Dick]

Avant Browser

I've been using the Avant browser for about a year.

It's MUCH more functional than IE6.

It's available free, but the registration fee is only $10 ....

Look here ... http://www.avantbrowser.com/

 

[Trevor S]

which is fine as far as it goes, but most of the banking websites I use will only accept IE or netscrape. unless some bright spark knows some way of getting firefox, or opera, to spoof a site into believing that they are IE

Have you tried Firefox on the sites you are concered about ? It works on all the bank sites I use (well, all three of them), even though they say to use Nutscrape and Internut Exploder only.

As an aside, with Opera you CAN spoof and have it report that it actually IE or NS., it's in the settings somewhere from memory. I persoanlly prefer Firefox.

 

[Trevor S]

unless some bright spark knows some way of getting firefox, or opera, to spoof a site into believing that they are IE

As I can't edit a post after more then 60mins for some reason I will have to post again.

Here is a way of getting Firefox to spoof that it is IE if you do want to go to those lengths.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/11/1092102511194.html

A clipping from the article:

"We would be interested to hear of users' experiences with other banking and financial institutions, but there is a temporary solution in a Firefox plug-in called IEview, at ieview.mozdev.org."

 

[cookie]

which is fine as far as it goes, but most of the banking websites I use will only accept IE or netscrape. unless some bright spark knows some way of getting firefox, or opera, to spoof a site into believing that they are IE

i use opera with HSBC & Barclays no problems at all except i keep forgetting me password

IE is shite!

 

[guitarman]

I've been using Mozilla 1.7 ever since IE decided it wasn't playing anymore. I've had no issues at all with accessing my Co-Op Bank accounts or my Coventry Building Society account.

Anyway, isn't Mozilla effectively another flavour of Netscape?

Cheers

Dick