# Am I the only one seeing bizarre images?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931
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**Created:** [October 30, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931 "2010-10-30T23:21:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/1 "2010-10-30T23:21:26Z")
These screen shots were all taken not too long ago using the ScreenGrab! Firefox extension. **They are somewhat large image files.** :
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/sPYRK.jpg)
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/WqCnm.png)
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/iDl11.png)
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](http://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.
(On edit, the Edit image is what it should be.)
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### Author:  [@Gilliver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilliver)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/2 "2010-10-30T23:23:37Z")
I really cant tell, since my computer wants to only show me the screenshot for a second and then shrink it down to micro size.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/3 "2010-10-30T23:24:43Z")
> [@Gilliver](#):
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> I really cant tell, since my computer wants to only show me the screenshot for a second and then shrink it down to micro size.
Does your mouse cursor look like a magnifying glass when it’s over the image? _Single click_ the image _once_ to see it full-size.
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### Author:  [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/4 "2010-10-30T23:27:16Z")
I’m not seeing anything like that, FWIW. They are pretty strange. Maybe you’ve got something like a browser redirection virus?
-XT
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/5 "2010-10-30T23:33:10Z")
> [@xtisme](#):
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> I’m not seeing anything like that, FWIW. They are pretty strange. Maybe you’ve got something like a browser redirection virus?
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> -XT
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.
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### Author:  [@Ionizer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ionizer)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/6 "2010-10-31T00:22:51Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/7 "2010-10-31T00:42:40Z")
> [@Ionizer](#):
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> 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,
Snipped.
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.
But nope, I don’t see them either.
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/8 "2010-10-31T00:50:33Z")
Cool. I don’t have the pleasure of them either. Win7 w/ FF
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/9 "2010-10-31T01:08:23Z")
It seems more and more probable that this is something to do with the people on the network in my immediate vicinity.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/10 "2010-10-31T01:54:16Z")
I warned you about taking the brown acid.
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### Author:  [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/11 "2010-10-31T01:57:29Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/12 "2010-10-31T02:16:07Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/13 "2010-10-31T02:57:16Z")
I’m on Mac OSX and Firefox, and I don’t see those images.
Also, you’ve revealed at least one poster that is on your ignore list.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/14 "2010-10-31T03:20:18Z")
> [@Electronic\_Chaos](#):
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> Do you have another browser you could check with?
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.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/15 "2010-10-31T03:37:02Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> Have you tried right clicking and finding out where the images are from?
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.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/16 "2010-10-31T04:23:49Z")
> [@Derleth](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/17 "2010-10-31T07:37:22Z")
**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.
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### Author:  [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/18 "2010-10-31T15:28:39Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-seeing-bizarre-images/558931/19 "2010-10-31T16:54:07Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#):
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> 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?
I have no idea where all the images come from. [Here’s a full-sized version of the Snow White image](http://vi.sualize.us/view/668d24780ee52fbbe0915a7d17f85bc5/) and [here is the image behind the Quick Reply box.](http://imgur.com/fWuVF.jpg)