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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2010 2:15:15 GMT
Ok, so today i am getting seriously ridiculous load times when navigating around the board. I tried the usual 'reset the router' type thing, checked to make sure i didn't have some hidden applications going that would be draining my internet, nothing helped... Then i notice this address in the footer of my browser: The page never finishes loading, the loading symbol next to the cursor stays spinning, the progress bar at the bottom of the browser never finishes, and the icon on the browser tab keeps turning. Its taking nearly a minute just to open a PM, that's how slow its loading. So, i did a little digging to find out what the heck this was. Today is the first i have experienced this, but it appears that this has been a problem going back as far as early as September of 09'. Many other boards that are hosted on ProBoards are experiencing similar problems. Still can't get a definite answer on this but so far from what i have read it is some sort of 'flash cookie'? that ProBoards is using to track & gather information, possibly for Google Ads. support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=support&action=display&thread=330162&page=1#3695969The ENTIRE DAY this been happening to me, in fact, the whole time i was making this post the page has never stopped loading. As a control i tested my connection to several other popular websites and experienced normal load times (usually half a second). Has anyone else been having this problem?
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Post by randomnobody on Jan 9, 2010 2:58:50 GMT
Never had that issue, myself. Odd... I wonder if has anything to do with browser/OS? I forget which browser you use...IE? 6, 7, 8? Firefox? Opera? Heck, which OS is that taskbar from? Doesn't look like one I've seen on any of the Windows boxes I've used...were you a Linux guy? My head hurts. Anyway, is there any way you can try another browser and see if it does the same thing? I'm just curious, as I find most often any "surfing" issues I have are browser-specific. Still no idea what that domain is, though...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2010 3:16:18 GMT
Looks like you're running Windows 7? If so, I'm running it too, with Firefox as a browser, and there is a brief flash of this pigeon1 thing loading, but I've never gotten stuck on it. You could try clearing all temporary files (after backing up any passwords you may have saved). Don't really know what the problem is though
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2010 8:25:34 GMT
I haven't had any problems like that with IE 8 on Windows 7 pro 64-bit.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2010 11:03:48 GMT
Never had that issue, myself. Odd... I wonder if has anything to do with browser/OS? I forget which browser you use...IE? 6, 7, 8? Firefox? Opera? Heck, which OS is that taskbar from? Doesn't look like one I've seen on any of the Windows boxes I've used...were you a Linux guy? My head hurts. Anyway, is there any way you can try another browser and see if it does the same thing? I'm just curious, as I find most often any "surfing" issues I have are browser-specific. Still no idea what that domain is, though... I am running Firefox 3.5.7 on Windows 7, i will try it with explorer and see if its the same. Hope this is fixable because i hate explorer. FWIW, it seems somewhat better now? Maybe its done doing whatever it had to do...? EDIT: Oh yea, and i use 64-bit.
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Post by Brett Whinnen on Jan 9, 2010 11:26:35 GMT
I've seen similar probs before on Safari 4.0.4 on Snow Leopard, but it has been great lately, I put it down to the corporate proxy server at work at the time as when I got home that night it was fine.
Running on IE 8 (Win7 64bit) in the last couple of days and I've seen no issues either, maybe just lucky timing... I don't have FF loaded on Win7 yet, I usually use Chrome as the alternate browser on that.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2010 14:55:00 GMT
It was doing that to me on 32-bit and causing IE to crash. The couple of times I managed to stop the page from loading, it gave choppy audio of voices talking and music, but I couldn't find the ad it was coming from.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2010 16:23:24 GMT
I had that yesterday all the time. Exactly what you described and also when I wanted to scroll down, it just didn't work, I tried and tried but it never happended. I have an apple and use safari. Today it's alright.
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Post by randomnobody on Jan 9, 2010 17:38:07 GMT
My iMac's WebKit has not had this issue...whatever the latest webkit release is. I use an older Intel model running Snow Leopard 10.6.something-or-other. 2?
Anyway, my Pre also uses a version of WebKit but has never had an issue like this.
Odd. I blame proboards.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2010 20:28:09 GMT
Well, it appears to have stopped freezing up the page. Pages are now loading pretty quick, like it usually does. The Pigeon1.vbanalytics thing is still coming up when i switch pages or try to post, but its only there for a second until the page loads then it says "Done" like it should. Not sure why it was interfering so much yesterday? FWIW, i think whatever "heavy lifting" it may have been doing has been done, so to speak. Hope i am not speaking to soon, i have to go through every review on the forum in the next couple of days, and i absolutely need quick page load times.
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Post by randomnobody on Jan 9, 2010 22:15:25 GMT
Oh man, I can't imagine what a pain it would be otherwise. Here's hoping it's settled.
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Post by Brett Whinnen on Jan 9, 2010 22:23:54 GMT
Interesting to note that the top of the page "Ads are currently disabled on all forums."
Must have noticed the issue themselves and done something about it!
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Post by randomnobody on Jan 9, 2010 22:36:17 GMT
Wow, I hadn't seen that. Probably since ads are typically blocked in my browser, anyway, but there it is.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2010 23:29:48 GMT
Being a "cookie" thing perhaps it will not be a problem until you delete your cookies. Some browsers are set to do that upon exit, or some cleaner programs may do it also.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2010 20:59:00 GMT
Yeah, sometime last week after I had been on the forum a while, all of a sudden it was like dozens of ads were trying to load, I could hear voices talking from the ads, but the browser was too overloaded for me to even scroll, so I just finally was able to close that tab The week before that, when I was on the forum, my computer was attacked by a dangerous virus with a root kit, this virus installs itself as an anti virus program, and if it can fool somebody into giving it permission to run, it will totally ruin everything on your computer and you will have to reformat and install your O/S, programs, etc. Thankfully, I knew something was wrong, and I called our tech dept. they had to use UnHackMe and MalwareBytes to remove the virus, and the only thing I lost were my cookies, saved passwords, and remembered web addresses I definitely think a hacker has gotten into our site, or maybe some of the ads
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Post by sparky on Jan 12, 2010 21:53:49 GMT
Yeah, sometime last week after I had been on the forum a while, all of a sudden it was like dozens of ads were trying to load, I could hear voices talking from the ads, but the browser was too overloaded for me to even scroll, so I just finally was able to close that tab The week before that, when I was on the forum, my computer was attacked by a dangerous virus with a root kit, this virus installs itself as an anti virus program, and if it can fool somebody into giving it permission to run, it will totally ruin everything on your computer and you will have to reformat and install your O/S, programs, etc. Thankfully, I knew something was wrong, and I called our tech dept. they had to use UnHackMe and MalwareBytes to remove the virus, and the only thing I lost were my cookies, saved passwords, and remembered web addresses I definitely think a hacker has gotten into our site, or maybe some of the ads I wonder if that's what happened to mine? I was here and my Norton said my computer was under attack. Then it told me to restart to finish removing the problem..... and I did. That was the last thing I was able to do. Then I had the sound of adds running even when I was not on line.......... then black screen. I'm thinking now I probably shouldn't have done that. Still don't know if my brother in law can save it. I'm an idiot when it comes to computers! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2010 10:19:55 GMT
Thats why I dropped Norton and exclusively use malwarebytes. Seriously, so much better and free, if you dont mind manual updates. On a side note...I think that pigeon is actually a type of programming code used in proboards construction and that the pigeon1.vbanalytics thing has to do with forcing your browser to connect to meta-tagged content, probably ads and the like usually, but it seems like something else may have slipped itself into the fun judging by some of the posts here. In any case, please keep in mind that I dont really know what Im talking about...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2010 10:22:13 GMT
!Beware of Gibberish! P.S. I think this is the program code that is running...
var vb_a_stracker; var vb_a_threadid; var vb_a_postid; var vb_a_forumid; var vb_a_userid; var vb_a_username; var vb_a_posttitle; var vb_a_threadtitle; var vb_a_forumtitle; var vb_vaGuid; var ip; var flashobj= " '; document.write(flashobj); function getParams() { var browserinfo=getBrowser(); var OSName = getOS(); var screenSize = getScreenSize(); var href=getHref(); var referrer = getReferrer(); var fcookie; var data=''; var params = "browser_name=" + browserinfo["browsername"]; params += "&browser_fullversion=" + browserinfo["fullversion"]; params += "&browser_majorversion=" + browserinfo["majorversion"]; params += "&browser_appname=" + browserinfo["appname"]; params += "&browser_useragent=" + escape(browserinfo["useragent"]); params += "&OS=" + OSName; params += "&screen_width=" + screenSize["width"]; params += "&screen_height=" + screenSize["height"]; params += "&href=" + escape(href); params += "&referrer=" + escape(referrer); params += "&site_guid=" + vb_a_stracker; params += "&action=beacon"; params += "&thread_id=" + vb_a_threadid; params += "&post_id=" + vb_a_postid; params += "&forum_id=" + vb_a_forumid; params += "&user_id=" + vb_a_userid; params += "&user_name=" + escape(vb_a_username); params += "&post_title=" + escape(vb_a_posttitle); params += "&thread_title=" + escape(vb_a_threadtitle); params += "&forum_title=" + escape(vb_a_forumtitle); params += "&user_guid=7cda41cab85bfe46b76db5651368eaa2"; params += "&ip=" + ip; return params; } function getRequestUrl() { return "http://pigeon1.vbanalytics.com/listener_g2.php"; } function getReferrer() { return escape(document.referrer); } function getHref() { return location.href; } function getScreenSize() { var screenW = 640, screenH = 480; if (parseInt(navigator.appVersion)>3) { screenW = screen.width; screenH = screen.height; } else if (navigator.appName == "Netscape" && parseInt(navigator.appVersion)==3 && navigator.javaEnabled() ) { var jToolkit = java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(); var jScreenSize = jToolkit.getScreenSize(); screenW = jScreenSize.width; screenH = jScreenSize.height; } var screenArray = []; screenArray["width"] = screenW; screenArray["height"] = screenH; return screenArray; } function getOS() { var OSName="Unknown OS"; if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Win")!=-1) OSName="Windows"; if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Mac")!=-1) OSName="MacOS"; if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("X11")!=-1) OSName="UNIX"; if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Linux")!=-1) OSName="Linux"; return OSName; } function getBrowser() { var nVer = navigator.appVersion; var nAgt = navigator.userAgent; var browserName = navigator.appName; var fullVersion = ''+parseFloat(navigator.appVersion); var majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion,10); var nameOffset,verOffset,ix; // In MSIE, the true version is after "MSIE" in userAgent if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("MSIE"))!=-1) { browserName = "Microsoft Internet Explorer"; fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+5); } // In Opera, the true version is after "Opera" else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Opera"))!=-1) { browserName = "Opera"; fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+6); } // In Chrome, the true version is after "Chrome" else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Chrome"))!=-1) { browserName = "Chrome"; fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+7); } // In Safari, the true version is after "Safari" else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Safari"))!=-1) { browserName = "Safari"; fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+7); } // In Firefox, the true version is after "Firefox" else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Firefox"))!=-1) { browserName = "Firefox"; fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+8); } // In most other browsers, "name/version" is at the end of userAgent else if ( (nameOffset=nAgt.lastIndexOf(' ')+1) < (verOffset=nAgt.lastIndexOf('/')) ) { browserName = nAgt.substring(nameOffset,verOffset); fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+1); if (browserName.toLowerCase()==browserName.toUpperCase()) { browserName = navigator.appName; } } // trim the fullVersion string at semicolon/space if present if ((ix=fullVersion.indexOf(";"))!=-1) fullVersion=fullVersion.substring(0,ix); if ((ix=fullVersion.indexOf(" "))!=-1) fullVersion=fullVersion.substring(0,ix); majorVersion = parseInt(''+fullVersion,10); if (isNaN(majorVersion)) { fullVersion = ''+parseFloat(navigator.appVersion); majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion,10); } var browserinfo = []; browserinfo["browsername"] = browserName; browserinfo["fullversion"] = fullVersion; browserinfo["majorversion"] = majorVersion; browserinfo["appname"] = navigator.appName; browserinfo["useragent"] = navigator.userAgent; return browserinfo; } var VBAnalytics = { initialize: function() { this.dom_id = 'VBAnalyticsCookie'; if (!document.getElementById || !document.getElementById(this.dom_id)) return; if (!this.get_movie()) return; }, get_movie: function() { if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1) { this.flash_movie = window[this.dom_id]; } else { if (document[this.dom_id].length != undefined){ this.flash_movie = document[this.dom_id][1]; } else { this.flash_movie = document[this.dom_id]; } } return ((this.flash_movie) ? true : false); }, make_request: function() { this.flash_movie.flash_make_request("http://pigeon1.vbanalytics.com/listener_g2.php", getParams()); } } function flash_has_loaded() { VBAnalytics.initialize(); VBAnalytics.make_request(); } function make_request_complete() { var img = new Image(); img.src = 'http://pigeon1.vbanalytics.com/transparent.gif'; } var browserinfo=getBrowser(); var OSName = getOS(); var screenSize = getScreenSize(); var href=getHref(); var referrer = getReferrer(); var fcookie; //var description=getDescription(); //alert(description); //dropFlash(); //var data='description:' + description + "[/*vba*/]"; var data=''; var ip=getip(); makeRequest(); function getip() { var ip = ''; return ip; } function getDescription() { return document.getElementsByName("description")[0].content; } function go() { /* var cookievalue=getfcookie(); if (cookievalue !== undefined) { fcooie=cookievalue; //alert('got cookie:' + fcookie); } else { //alert('didnt get cookie'); var myguid = guid(); setfcookie(myguid); cookievalue=getfcookie(); fcookie=cookievalue; //alert('set cookie:' + fcookie); } */ makeRequest(); //donewithflash(); } function donewithflash() { var flash=getFlashMovie('vb_analytics1','vb_analytics2'); flash.imdone(); } function setfcookie(cookie_value) { //var flash = document.getElementById('vb_analytics'); var flash = getFlashMovie('vb_analytics1','vb_analytics2'); flash.setcookie(cookie_value); } function getfcookie() { var flash = getFlashMovie('vb_analytics1','vb_analytics2'); //var mycookievalue=flash.getcookie(); return flash.getcookie(); } function getFlashMovie(objectId,embedId) { return (window[objectId]) ? window[objectId] : document[embedId]; } function S4() { return (((1+Math.random())*0x10000)|0).toString(16).substring(1); } function guid() { return (S4()+"-" +S4()+"-"+S4()+"-"+S4()+"-"+S4()+"-"+S4()+"-"+S4()+"-"+S4()); } function dropFlash() { var flashstring="%3Cobject%20classid%3D%22clsid%3Ad27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000%22%20codebase%3D%22http%3A//download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab%23version%3D8%2C0%2C0%2C0%22%20width%3D%221%22%20height%3D%221%22%20id%3D%22vb_analytics1%22%20align%3D%22middle%22%20name%3D%27vb_analytics1%27%3E%0A%0A%09%3Cparam%20name%3D%22allowScriptAccess%22%20value%3D%22sameDomain%22%20/%3E%0A%0A%09%3Cparam%20name%3D%22movie%22%20value%3D%22http%3A//www.vbanalytics.com/analytics/backend/vb_analytics.swf%22%20/%3E%3Cparam%20name%3D%22quality%22%20value%3D%22high%22%20/%3E%3Cparam%20name%3D%22bgcolor%22%20value%3D%22%23ffffff%22%20/%3E%09%3Cembed%20src%3D%22http%3A//www.vbanalytics.com/analytics/backend/vb_analytics.swf%22%20quality%3D%22high%22%20bgcolor%3D%22%23ffffff%22%20width%3D%221%22%20height%3D%221%22%20id%3D%22vb_analytics2%22%20name%3D%22vb_analytics2%22%20align%3D%22middle%22%20allowScriptAccess%3D%22always%22%20allowFullScreen%3D%22false%22%20type%3D%22application/x-shockwave-flash%22%20pluginspage%3D%22http%3A//www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer%22%20/%3E%0A%0A%09%3C/object%3E"; document.write(unescape(flashstring)); } function makeRequest() { var url = "http://pigeon1.vbanalytics.com/listener.php?"; var params = "b1=" + browserinfo["browsername"] + "&b2=" + browserinfo["fullversion"] + "&b3=" + browserinfo["majorversion"] + "&b4=" + browserinfo["appname"] + "&b5=" + escape(browserinfo["useragent"]) + "&os=" + OSName + "&sw=" + screenSize["width"] + "&sh=" + screenSize["height"] + "&h=" + escape(href) + "&r=" + escape(referrer) + "&sg=" + vb_a_stracker + "&action=beacon" + "&tid=" + vb_a_threadid + "&pid=" + vb_a_postid + "&fid=" + vb_a_forumid + "&uid=" + vb_a_userid + "&ptitle=" + vb_a_posttitle + "&ttitle=" + vb_a_threadtitle + "&un=" + vb_a_username + "&ip=" + ip + "&data=" + data; var scriptsrc = url + params; document.write(unescape("%3Cimg src='") + scriptsrc + unescape("' %3E%3C/img%3E")); } function getReferrer() { //alert(document.referrer); return escape(document.referrer); } function getHref() { return location.href; } function getScreenSize() { var screenW = 640, screenH = 480; if (parseInt(navigator.appVersion)>3) { screenW = screen.width; screenH = screen.height; } else if (navigator.appName == "Netscape" && parseInt(navigator.appVersion)==3 && navigator.javaEnabled() ) { var jToolkit = java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(); var jScreenSize = jToolkit.getScreenSize(); screenW = jScreenSize.width; screenH = jScreenSize.height; } var screenArray = []; screenArray["width"] = screenW; screenArray["height"] = screenH; return screenArray; } function getOS() { var OSName="Unknown OS"; if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Win")!=-1) OSName="Windows"; if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Mac")!=-1) OSName="MacOS"; if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("X11")!=-1) OSName="UNIX"; if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Linux")!=-1) OSName="Linux"; return OSName; } function getBrowser() { var nVer = navigator.appVersion; var nAgt = navigator.userAgent; var browserName = navigator.appName; var fullVersion = ''+parseFloat(navigator.appVersion); var majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion,10); var nameOffset,verOffset,ix; // In MSIE, the true version is after "MSIE" in userAgent if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("MSIE"))!=-1) { browserName = "Microsoft Internet Explorer"; fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+5); } // In Opera, the true version is after "Opera" else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Opera"))!=-1) { browserName = "Opera"; fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+6); } // In Chrome, the true version is after "Chrome" else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Chrome"))!=-1) { browserName = "Chrome"; fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+7); } // In Safari, the true version is after "Safari" else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Safari"))!=-1) { browserName = "Safari"; fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+7); } // In Firefox, the true version is after "Firefox" else if ((verOffset=nAgt.indexOf("Firefox"))!=-1) { browserName = "Firefox"; fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+8); } // In most other browsers, "name/version" is at the end of userAgent else if ( (nameOffset=nAgt.lastIndexOf(' ')+1) < (verOffset=nAgt.lastIndexOf('/')) ) { browserName = nAgt.substring(nameOffset,verOffset); fullVersion = nAgt.substring(verOffset+1); if (browserName.toLowerCase()==browserName.toUpperCase()) { browserName = navigator.appName; } } // trim the fullVersion string at semicolon/space if present if ((ix=fullVersion.indexOf(";"))!=-1) fullVersion=fullVersion.substring(0,ix); if ((ix=fullVersion.indexOf(" "))!=-1) fullVersion=fullVersion.substring(0,ix); majorVersion = parseInt(''+fullVersion,10); if (isNaN(majorVersion)) { fullVersion = ''+parseFloat(navigator.appVersion); majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion,10); } var browserinfo = []; browserinfo["browsername"] = browserName; browserinfo["fullversion"] = fullVersion; browserinfo["majorversion"] = majorVersion; browserinfo["appname"] = navigator.appName; browserinfo["useragent"] = navigator.userAgent; return browserinfo; }
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