i just recently switched to fire fox and i got some strange ads that pop up when i come to brainking that my comp and anti virus has fits about some times have to close fire fox browser and reopen it

Gordon Shumway: I've just asked the ad provider to block all inappropriate ads for our site. It can take several hours to become active.

Fencer: On this computer I never have to click the login button, it logs in automatically. I'm not sure why it does that, because it doesn't on the other computer I play on.
Also, with firefox, I don't have any ads at all, with one exception, I let the google ads through, they are good. I find everything else annoying. I suggest looking into ads from google.

nodnarbo: Because you have this computer "set" to log-in automatically?

srnity: probably

Fencer: thanks! that would be great!
it happened again to me today

yesterday i use adaware and spybot search & destroy to clean up my pc
after that i didnt use the internet anymore
this morning i used spybot s&d again and found nothing extra (as expected) (only that my antivirus was not controlled by microsoft which is correct :))

i then went to brainking and made some moves, the errorsafe ad took over my brainking window again when i tried to make a move in my dicepoker game

after that i ran spybot s&d again and it found some items:

Microsoft.WindowsSecurityCenter.AntiVirusOverride: Instellingen (Registerwijziging
., fixed)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\AntiVirusOverride!=dword:0
ErrorSafe: Tracking cookie (Internet Explorer: mamo) (Cookie, fixed)

TagASaurus: Tracking cookie (Internet Explorer: mamo) (Cookie, fixed)

ErrorSafe: Tracking cookie (Internet Explorer: mamo) (Cookie, fixed)

DoubleClick: Tracking cookie (Internet Explorer: mamo) (Cookie, fixed)

ErrorSafe: Tracking cookie (Internet Explorer: mamo) (Cookie, fixed)

MediaPlex: Tracking cookie (Internet Explorer: mamo) (Cookie, fixed)


--- Spybot - Search & Destroy version: 1.4 (build: 20050523) ---
2005-05-31 blindman.exe (1.0.0.1)
2005-05-31 SpybotSD.exe (1.4.0.3)
2005-05-31 TeaTimer.exe (1.4.0.2)
2006-05-09 unins000.exe (51.41.0.0)
2005-05-31 Update.exe (1.4.0.0)
2007-01-15 advcheck.dll (1.2.1.0)
2005-05-31 aports.dll (2.1.0.0)
2005-05-31 borlndmm.dll (7.0.4.453)
2005-05-31 delphimm.dll (7.0.4.453)
2005-05-31 SDHelper.dll (1.4.0.0)
2007-01-02 Tools.dll (2.0.1.0)
2005-05-31 UnzDll.dll (1.73.1.1)
2005-05-31 ZipDll.dll (1.73.2.0)
2007-03-14 Includes\Cookies.sbi (*)
2006-12-08 Includes\Dialer.sbi (*)
2007-03-14 Includes\DialerC.sbi (*)
2007-02-07 Includes\Hijackers.sbi (*)
2007-03-14 Includes\HijackersC.sbi (*)
2006-10-27 Includes\Keyloggers.sbi (*)
2007-03-14 Includes\KeyloggersC.sbi (*)
2004-11-29 Includes\LSP.sbi (*)
2007-02-14 Includes\Malware.sbi (*)
2007-03-14 Includes\MalwareC.sbi (*)
2007-01-19 Includes\PUPS.sbi (*)
2007-03-14 Includes\PUPSC.sbi (*)
2007-03-14 Includes\Revision.sbi (*)
2006-12-08 Includes\Security.sbi (*)
2007-03-14 Includes\SecurityC.sbi (*)
2007-02-02 Includes\Spybots.sbi (*)
2007-03-14 Includes\SpybotsC.sbi (*)
2005-02-17 Includes\Tracks.uti
2007-03-14 Includes\Trojans.sbi (*)
2007-03-14 Includes\TrojansC.sbi (*)


i didnt use the internet for anything else than brainkin in between my 2 runs of spybot s&d

(ok i also visited google.nl as its my startpage)

i hope brainking will be without these nasty ads again soon :)
(i dont mind ads, but these take me away from the site (the brainking window is overtaken, and several programs detect threats, once even 3 virusses (viri?))

Universal Eyes: its not a name of a person
its one of the ad companies

there is not a member on brainking causing trouble in this
i wonder what you are talking about, but please send it to me in a private message

i did the same test again, ran spybot, went to brainking, made a few moves (other games), closed brainking, ran spybot again

this time i didnt get a bad ad (which would take over my window or cause my antivirus to react) .. but spybot did find something again:


TagASaurus: Tracking cookie (Internet Explorer: mamo) (Cookie, fixed)

FastClick: Tracking cookie (Internet Explorer: mamo) (Cookie, fixed)

Tradedoubler: Tracking cookie (Internet Explorer: mamo) (Cookie, fixed)

Universal Eyes: could be .. but we will let fencer take care of it .. no need to create a hunt for the invisible (to us)

Hrqls: Tracking cookie is not a spyware. It's just a cookie, nothing but a tiny harmless text file. I know that Spybot marks them as "problems" but they are not. Almost all sites on the web store cookies on your computer.

Fencer: true .. i know about that .. i just posted it because errorsafe is a problem

errorsafe takes over the window, and it requires quite some clicking to get rid off .. you can easily misclick and install some software from them

i had another ad which also took over the window and on which my avg detected 3 virusses .. i dont know which ad that was though, or which site contained the virusses .. will log it next case it happens

somehow something changed in the ads as this didnt happened about 2 weeks ago (i think), but now i get it about once a day

Interestingly enough, while most fonts are larger if I choose the 'nofonts' style, the style switcher is significantly smaller. The 'nofonts' style makes it extra, extra small, which turns out to be quite a lot smaller than the 10pt. fixed setting for the simple style. Simple style ranges from 10 to 15pts, nofonts uses: xx-small, small, smaller, larger, and fixed sizes 10px and 11px (bug?).

I prefer the nofonts, although I wouldn't mind seeing 'xx-small' go.

AbigailII: Not a bug, only a small detail I have missed.

I'm guessing this is what the problem is - but when I choose the no-font style that I like better, and go to another page - the page loads completly with the castle theme then after it is loaded then switches to the nofont theme that I like. I'm almost positive it did not do this before - and a reason I pick the nofont is so it will load on the screen faster without having to load and display all the different images - and having it load completly with the castle theme first and then suddenly switching to the correct theme on every page load - that will start to get VERY old VERY fast. Any way we can have it load the theme we like from the start?

BIG BAD WOLF: But it's funny, isn't it? Try it now.

Fencer: Darn - it works now.

I had hoped you would say I would have to live with it, then I could then say if I have to live with Castle, I would tell you I would then need a quick submit button near the top of the screen - Feature requests (BIG BAD WOLF, 2007-03-16 04:36:48) (Which of course I still want very much - but don't have a good excuse now...)

Fencer: i got a new one .. this time something called 'drivecleaner'

it loaded in the brainking tab (i have to admit i am using ie, didnt install ff on this new pc yet) .. made the window very small (not minimized) .. showed another window in the center of my screen . when i close the originally brainking window show another window of drivercleaner showing my pc (although they gave my drives the wrong names :)) .. showing i had threats on it .. and trying to make me download something (a cab file)

its quite nasty as i have to close down my ie .. restart it .. and login into brainking again

popups might be annoying .. but this is worse
(i might be able to live with popups alone :))

Hrqls: Why do you click on it? This is the basic rule - never click anything you don't trust.

Fencer: thats why i am bothered by it .. i didnt click on it :)

i might have hovered my mouse over an ad though .. not sure .. i moved quite fast

Fencer: is there anything i can do to track it down for you ?
or to know more of its origins ?

Hrqls: If you didn't click it, nothing could install a spyware on your computer. If you use a proper browser like Firefox, of course. Nobody knows what the Internet Exploder 7 is capable of.

Fencer: :) it didnt install it .. it just offered it .. and ie showed me its nice yellow bar telling me that i a website was offering me a download .. of course i didnt do that

but still the ad took over brainkings tab, made it small, popped up another window, which i could only close, then it showed the window in which brainking was with the drivecleaner site

i had to close that one .. and restart in brainking .. and .. within 10 clicks on brainking .. it happened again :)

now i am a few more clicks further and it didnt happen again .. but 2 times is quite annoying (1 time already is)

(just got this computer on friday, still in the process of installing all, will have ff on it again soon .. but still .. this ad is quite annoying)

Hrqls: That's the pest I was complaining about which started this thread.

I have also trouble with those spyware even with Firefox, really strange!

When using the style no-fonts, which now applies to the Message Box list. There is something still makeing the message list really small - which then transfers over and makes the favourite boards & Fellowships list in the right column small also. Can we get out that small font from the discussion board for the no-font theme also? Thanks.

BIG BAD WOLF: This is the test mode and some kind of backward compatibility can interfere where it's not supposed to be.

I miss the flags for language switching in the simple and no fonts layout of the main page. Furthermore there is no link indication on the right side of the screen, e.g. for fellowships. At least that is inconsistent to the menu on the left.
For the castle layout this is ok.
I hope, this will be changed for simple and no fonts layout before the official release of them.

Hieronymus:  How often do you switch languages?

Hieronymus: What do you mean by "no link indication"?

Thank you Fencer, i loved the idea of the context menu and started using it when you first released it, but stopped as i missed not being able to right click for cut/paste which i use a lot.

What a great idea to have it in javascript like the games list in the top left, shocked no one thought of it before lol

Hieronymus: I don't miss the flags. The main page should be as simple as possible. It should be a "Setting", whether or not to have the language flags on the main page. It should also be a setting to permanently have the main page in "Simple" mode rather than "castle".

emmett: I also don't miss the flags. Plus every time I use the new setup, it remembers that I had it in simple mode - not sure what you are saying about being a permanent setting.

BIG BAD WOLF: Ah, I see. I'm still using the old blue outdated look. When I logged in today, it went into castle mode and I had to change it to simple. I haven't been using the simple look long enough to notice if the login was consistently in "simple". Thanks BBW. I'm sure we'll all have to get used to the new look.

Fencer: The links are underlined in the left and in the main part of the main page, but not in the right.
emmett: Maybe most users never change the language, but for translators it is very important to have the possibility of easy switching them. I think that the simple mode should have the same functionality as the castle.

Hieronymus: Yes, I know. It is correct.

Hieronymus: But having the flags on the top right is such a waste of screen real estate, and is only useful for a handful of people (the translators), and even then I doubt they switch between all of them.

I rather not have items on the top of the page that are either useful to only a very few number of people (the flags), or contain things I already know (for instance, the current date and the time).

I have jsut sent somebody a link to look at a game i was playing, but it sends them back to their homepage, why is this?

Oceans Apart: which was the link ? you might have forgotten a part of it ?

Oceans Apart: Going to give you a lesson on links, you never have much luck with them do you lol

Oceans Apart: maybe they needed to be logged in to see the link ?

MadMonkey: LMAO, u cheeky monkey

Hrqls: They are logged in

I go straight to it.

Oceans Apart: me as well

Hrqls: See i can play ya know lmao

I have sent the link in pm instead, see if it works instead of sending it during the game

ok the link worked sending it via PM

    The date/time on my home page do not reflect the early adoption of DST in the US this year.

Fencer, the message box in the new styles is not very clear (well on this PC) as too which messages have been read and which not.
Well the No fonts option is not to bad.
Could you make the read messages show in italics or the unread ones more bolder than they are please.

Side note, i like the simple style, i think it clean, tidy & clear

AbigailII: It's important the languages can be switched fast. If I copy/paste, I might want the context in english, or I need to know a word in english, or a link to a tournament changes all further pages to an other language.

I like the new stile quite good so far, I'm just used to the row-layout, wich I hope is not too complicate to create.

gogul: Sorry, but I don't from your example that it follows that switching quickly between languages is important for everyone.

I rather have the move button there - that's important functionality for everyone.