These screen shots were all taken not too long ago using the ScreenGrab! Firefox extension. They are somewhat large image files.:
I’m running Firefox 3.6.12 (latest stable) on x86 Linux* with AdBlock Plus, NoScript (set to allow all scripts served from straightdope.com and its subdomains), and probably too many others.
*(If you must know, I run a 32-bit x86 Firefox build on an otherwise all-64-bit x86_64 laptop.)
The filenames are what you’d expect them to be; the image content has changed profoundly.
I’m running Linux, so that’s unlikely, and I have a hard time imagining any modern malware without an obvious profit motive. (Purely for-fun viruses died with DOS, it seems.)
It’s possible someone upstream from me is diddling with my network connection.
Derleth, if you mean those weird Snow White-like and/or Hitler-stache guy plus the green 'gooey-guy(?) along right side of your screengrab, then no, I do not have those showing on my browser (FF latest update, adblock, etc). I am nont a Member so I may not get the same icons and such you might show along right side of screen. The ‘spryrkk’ img appears normal as far as what should be shown (I think) - its the other two that are wonkyish. (WTF??)
Just FYI for you -> HTH
ETA: been to 4chan or the like lately? Or piss off some techie kid around you?
The first thing I thought of, when I saw it, was one of the Pac-Man monsters, although none are green-colored.
The second thing looks kind of like a statue of a dog, and yep, the last thing looks like Snow White.
No idea what’s up with the Hitler look alike. Maybe it’s warning us about A Priori Tea. :eek:
I kid, I kid.
Do you have another browser you could check with? My best guess is some weird caching error, but I’m not even sure if that’s possible. Try clearing your cache, and viewing with a different browser. If it displays wonky with a different browser, then it’s probably something to do with either being redirected, or some greater problem on your network.
The way those are added almost looks like the way it worked in wierdaaron’s Greasemonkey script.
Have you tried right clicking and finding out where the images are from? Or, since apparently you are adblocking, have you considered just adblocking the images and seeing if that gets rid of it. It’s obviously not the permanent solution, but I’m at least curious if it would work.
Right. I checked with w3m (the furthest thing from Firefox that still renders images) and the whole damn problem went away.
Electric Chaos, BigT: I guess it’s a Firefox problem somehow, then, but while I have a few Greasemonkey scripts installed on this profile weirdaaron’s isn’t one of them and the only one that’s active on this domain at all is the Reocities Geocities link fixer.
Missed this the first time: The weird images all have precisely the same URLs as the real ones, and when anything other than Firefox grabs them from the Internet they look like they ought to. (Verified with feh, a stand-alone image viewer that will fetch images from URLs.) When I used Firefox to save the page, the weird images are all intact in the associated directory with the same names the real ones ought to have.
If you’ve cleared your cache or tried a hard reset, I’d assume your profile was corrupted. Since you’re using Linux, I assume you are capable of looking up how to create a new Firefox profile to check and see if the problem goes away.
And you can fix the problem RR mentioned by cutting out part of your page.
BigT: Actually, the problem’s mostly gone now; all of the buttons look right, anyway. A browser restart did mostly solve it, indicating the cache may well be to blame. If I cared enough I could likely fix the problem entirely, but I don’t.
And what’s all that funny business going on behind the Quick Reply box? I also like that the picture of Snow White (?) says “bait” on it. What’s that all about?
