Okay. Just decided to check out the board. I click under my favorites for the Straight Dope. It wouldn’t let me in without bringing up another box that said “some files may harm your computer deal if this looks suspicious…”. I kept hitting cancel. I had another thread flagged under favorites and with no problem it let me slip in the back door. Is my browser hijacked? Cause I am highly suspicious. I also keyed in “straightdope.com” and it did the same thing. Something makes me think something is up. Can anyone help?
Just double checked my other favorites and Straight Dope is the only one that is doing this. It is asking if I want to open this file, cancel or save to computer. This is really irritating. I can’t figure out why it is doing this. It has never done this before. Maybe I am just paranoid.
I guess you just have to be smarter than the computer and in my case that takes a lot of work. I deleted Straight Dope off my favorites and put it back on. I just don’t have it to where it goes directly to the front page now. Like where it says “Question Of The Day” and such. Oh well guess no need for this thread anymore.
I don’t get a popup. The staff has said the SD has no popups. So you must have some kind of stealth adware on your system.
Some info is here: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260053