# An orgy of new windows **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 8, 2001, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-orgy-of-new-windows/92100 "2001-11-08T02:03:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-orgy-of-new-windows/92100/1 "2001-11-08T02:03:21Z")
A couple of time recently when I clicked on a link, I got an orgy of new windows popping up. I mean, like 30 or 40. They kept coming and coming. 😃 Is that the SDMB problem, or my problem? ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-orgy-of-new-windows/92100/2 "2001-11-08T02:05:47Z")
Don’t tell the deves reading Ewes Sluts that there’s an orgy thread in ATMB. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-orgy-of-new-windows/92100/3 "2001-11-08T03:10:00Z")
Blast. I thought this was going to be about a little-known Windows XP feature. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-orgy-of-new-windows/92100/4 "2001-11-08T03:18:04Z")
Dunno. I haven’t experienced this problem. Can you re-create the problem by clicking on the same link again, or does it happen randomly? ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-orgy-of-new-windows/92100/5 "2001-11-08T03:19:30Z")
It sounds like a java bomb. Do you have the link? ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-orgy-of-new-windows/92100/6 "2001-11-08T03:26:54Z")
I’ll try to dig around to find it again. What’s a java bomb? ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-orgy-of-new-windows/92100/7 "2001-11-08T03:45:28Z")
It’s a program that makes your browser open so many windows it eventually crashes. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-orgy-of-new-windows/92100/8 "2001-11-08T03:47:30Z")
So would that be something that has ended up on my machine, or is it something programmed into the Java of a web page? If the former, how do I get rid of it? ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-orgy-of-new-windows/92100/9 "2001-11-08T04:00:23Z")
It’s the latter. It won’t be on your puter. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-orgy-of-new-windows/92100/10 "2001-11-08T05:37:17Z")
**D18** : I’d be very interested in knowing whether the link was provided by the board or in someone’s post. Please tell us where the link is exactly. **DrMatrix** – SDMB Moderator ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-orgy-of-new-windows/92100/11 "2001-11-08T13:37:15Z")
Apologies for not being more helpful. The link would have been supplied in a post. I **think** that it was one that I was clicking to see how to figure out how to link to a specific message. Unfortunately, I didn’t think to ask about it immediately after it happened, but did so a couple of days after the fact. Maybe it’s one of those UCFs (unexplained computer, er, foul-ups) that happen now and then. I just had wondered whether anyone else had the same problem or not. If it happens again, I’ll try to remember it better.