How do you block a website from sending info through Mozilla Firebird? I use Firebird as a browser and players from www.outwar.com will send a message though to ask a link to be clicked to help them in this game. I've already clicked 'report this spammer' numerous time but they're still coming through. It's like the outwar player sends a url though and changes the url I'm currently looking at regardless of what page I'm on. I'm running the popup blocker in Firebird as well as Pop-Up Stopper from Panicware, Inc to stop pop up ads but this something that takes place of the web page I'm looking at. Sorry if that didn't make any sense. Thanks for all your help. -- ................................................................... |Demoness Abigor| |net.goth| |The Pinkest Deceptagon in da world! | | http://goddess_abigor.livejournal.com |AIM|AbigorBot| |You take the blue pill, the story ends. Your browser closes and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland. And, I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. |Josh: you mentioned Transformers! and didn't use the words "are lame" in the same sentence! you are my dream girl! |Proud supporter of JROCKROLEPLAY at Live Journal | http://www.earth-inferno.com/jrockroleplay/
You are out of my experience here, but this sounds like more of a job for a firewall than a browser. Are you running any kind of firewall already?
| Demoness Abigor wrote: | You are out of my experience here, but this sounds like more of a job | for a firewall than a browser. Are you running any kind of firewall | already? We're running the normal firewall that comes with Windows XP. -- ................................................................... |Demoness Abigor| |net.goth| |The Pinkest Deceptagon in da world! | | http://goddess_abigor.livejournal.com |AIM|AbigorBot| |You take the blue pill, the story ends. Your browser closes and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland. And, I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. |Josh: you mentioned Transformers! and didn't use the words "are lame" in the same sentence! you are my dream girl! |Proud supporter of JROCKROLEPLAY at Live Journal | http://www.earth-inferno.com/jrockroleplay/
I'm unclear exactly how this is working. Are you participating in a game on that web site? And just how are these intrusions showing up on your browser? As a pop-up message? Or are they part of the gaming environment? An off-topic note. In your signature you should include a space after the double-dashes (that's standard convention). Newsreaders will then automatically strip out the signature in subsequent replies. As in your answer to Lee Jones' his sig was stripped out. Helps prevent endless repetition of sigs throughout a thread. ;-)
| I'm unclear exactly how this is working. Are you participating in a | game on that web site? And just how are these intrusions showing up on | your browser? As a pop-up message? Or are they part of the gaming | environment? Not a pop up and I'm not participating in the game. Think of it like this. you're looking at a website right now and then the page loads and it's the player trying to get support from www.outwar.com. | An off-topic note. In your signature you should include a space after | the double-dashes (that's standard convention). Newsreaders will then | automatically strip out the signature in subsequent replies. As in your | answer to Lee Jones' his sig was stripped out. Helps prevent endless | repetition of sigs throughout a thread. ;-) Thanks about the heads up. I'm still a little new at the ng_sig thing. Is that a little better? ^___^ ................................................................... |Demoness Abigor| |net.goth| |The Pinkest Deceptagon in da world! | | http://goddess_abigor.livejournal.com |AIM|AbigorBot| |You take the blue pill, the story ends. Your browser closes and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland. And, I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. |Josh: you mentioned Transformers! and didn't use the words "are lame" in the same sentence! you are my dream girl! |Proud supporter of JROCKROLEPLAY at Live Journal | http://www.earth-inferno.com/jrockroleplay/
Ok. I re-read your original post more carefully. You can be on any page in your browser and some gamer sends you a message asking for help. Where does that message appear? I'm guessing one of the following is happening here: 1. You have some service running on your machine which is letting this happen. 2. You (or someone using your computer) registered on that site at some time and your ID is still active and available. From the web site's spam policy: ****************** Outwar Anti-Spam Policy Outwar prohibits its members from using spam and other forms of Internet abuse to gain character power. Spam is defined as including, but not limited to, the following: Electronic mail messages addressed to a recipient with whom the initiator does not have an existing business or personal relationship or is not sent at the request of, or with the express consent of, the recipient; Messages posted to Usenet and message boards that are off-topic (unrelated to the topic of discussion), cross-posted to unrelated newsgroups, or posted in excessive volume; Solicitations posted to chat rooms, or to groups or individuals via Internet Relay Chat or "Instant Messaging" system (such as ICQ); Certain off-line activities that, while not considered spam, are similar in nature, including distributing flyers or leaflets on private property or where prohibited by applicable rules, regulations, or laws. ******************************** Ummm, no! :-D Look at my sig. It begins with hyphen hyphen space, then a carriage return, then the sig info. It's "-- " not "--". And not any other two characters other than the hyphen. -- Ed Mullen - Mozilla Champion http://edmullen.net http://edmullen.net/moz.html Why do people leave cars worth tens of thousands of dollars in the driveway and leave useless things and junk in boxes in the garage?
| Ok. I re-read your original post more carefully. You can be on any | page in your browser and some gamer sends you a message asking for help. | Where does that message appear? I'm guessing one of the following is | happening here: | | 1. You have some service running on your machine which is letting this | happen. | | 2. You (or someone using your computer) registered on that site at some | time and your ID is still active and available. | | From the web site's spam policy: <snip> Actually neither myself or my husband had ever heard of it until I started getting them about 2 weeks ago. It's really strange how their page will replace the url I'm looking at.
<signature removed> Have you checked the computer for spyware programs? Maybe? I don't understand what this link looks like.
Still to understand for me is where these messages appear. Are they coming up in a browser window? In an instant messaging window? In email? Are you running Microsoft Messenger? Are you running some peer-to-peer software like Kazaa? As another poster suggested, get a spyware/adware checking program and run it. The two most popular ones are: Adaware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ Spybot Search and Destroy - http://www.safer-networking.org/ Just read the documentation carefully and don't automatically delete everything that might be flagged by a scan. Sometimes things are flagged that are either benign or that you might actually want to have present. I keep coming back to the idea that there is some service/program running on your system that is enabling this behavior that you aren't aware of. Also, if this problem is happening consistently, try disabling javascript and Java in Preferences - Advanced for both your email and browser and see if that stops this. Final thought. If the initial inquiry/message that causes the problem is always coming from www.outwar.com, you can add that entry in your Hosts file and block access completely. This has to be most interesting problem I've seen in a long time! -- Ed Mullen - Mozilla Champion http://edmullen.net http://edmullen.net/moz.html If a man stands in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
| Demoness Abigor wrote: | Have you checked the computer for spyware programs? Maybe? I don't | understand what this link looks like. I'm not running any P2P programs at all and I use Lavasoft Ad-aware 6 twice a day. In regards to how they come up. It's like someone sends a message through to my web browser as if I wanted to go to there site but haven't made the action myself. |Final thought. If the initial inquiry/message that causes the problem is |always coming from www.outwar.com, you can add that entry in your Hosts |file and block access completely. I think that's what I was trying to find out. How would I do that. ______________________________________________________ |Demoness Abigor|net.goth|The Pinkest Deceptagon in da world! | | http://goddess_abigor.livejournal.com |AIM|AbigorBot| |Josh: you mentioned Transformers! and didn't use the words "are lame" in the same sentence! you are my dream girl! |Proud supporter of JROCKROLEPLAY at Live Journal | http://www.earth-inferno.com/jrockroleplay/
And one more time: does this happen no matter what site you are currently looking at? Depends on your OS. Windows 95/98/Me c:\windows\hosts Windows NT/2000/XP Pro c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Windows XP Home c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts It's a plain text file. There should be a default file that you can edit. Just make sure that when you save it you do not put an extension (like .txt) on the file or Windows won't recognize it. The file will have some explanatory (and non-functional) comments and a single functional line at the bottom: 127.0.0.1 localhost Add this line after the one above in your hosts file: 127.0.0.1 www.outwar.com Save the file. Depending on how this intrusion is working you may be ok with this. Or you may now start getting error messages from Mozilla that the connection couldn't be made. If so, just back out the change to the hosts file. Or the intrusion may be coming from some other source, in which case you'll need to positively ID what that source is for the hosts file trick to work. Perhaps a better way to approach this is with a firewall program that would allow you to block the incoming and outgoing traffic generated by this intrusion. The built-in Windows firewall does not block outbound traffic. If your machine is running some service that is allowing this to happen a good firewall like Zone Alarm (even the free version) is the first thing I'd do to try to identify how this is happening. You should also look at Task Manager when this happens to see if there are any processes running that you don't recognize and cannot identify as legitimate. Especially any instant messaging programs. The hosts file and the fire wall are still not an ultimate solution to the problem. From your description I'm guessing there is some service on your system that is allowing this. You really should continue to try and figure out why this is happening. Wish I could sit down at your machine and see this in action. -- Ed Mullen - Mozilla Champion http://edmullen.net http://edmullen.net/moz.html Why do they use sterilized needles for lethal injections?
Thanks so much for all your help Ed. I wish you could too. I've never seen anything like it before. -- |Demoness Abigor|net.goth|The Pinkest Deceptagon in da world! | | http://goddess_abigor.livejournal.com |AIM|AbigorBot| |Josh: you mentioned Transformers! and didn't use the words "are lame" in the same sentence! you are my dream girl! |JROCKROLEPLAY at Live Journal| http://www.earth-inferno.com/jrockroleplay/
