I get a weird popup whenever i get onto the addictinggames.com website. The window looks like a generic windows error with the black exclamation mark in the yellow triangle, but the title bar says "The page at http://www.addictinggames.com says:".
The message is just a random number (or seemingly random) followed by a colon and the word "minutes".
So it says like:
10:Minutes
The problem is that whenever i click Ok, try to [x] out of it, alt+f4 it, or anything it comes back with another number slightly larger than the first. I keep pressing ok and the number rises all the way to saying "infinity: Minutes" after i press ok (the last number before infinity is like "2.########## e+300" or something like that.
needless to say i have no idea what this is and i can't get on the site or any other tab with it open.
The only way i've come up with to get past it is to press ctrl+w quickly after pressing the ok button.
Someone help!
(running Microsoft XP sp2 and Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6 with AdBlock Plus and Firebug (though i can't access either when the popup is up))
thanks for all the comments and especially to the guy who was able to somehow get to the contact page through the popup……i ran both antivirus and antispyware last night to see if i could find anything (avast! 4.8 and spybot S&D new version) and both came back clean……so i guess it's not a virus or whatever (unless it was overlooked, but both checks were thorough) ……checked a few minutes ago and it's still there….remember the way to get out of it without ctrl+alt+del and closing firefox is to quickly press enter (to close the popup) then quickly press ctrl+w to close the tab….seriously this is getting annoying i want to play my weekly flash games!….i don't think it has to do with the history, but i also haven't checked out updating flash and or java so i'll try that tonight…good luck people! (www.stickpage.com has some good games)
The popup that everyone is experiencing is part of the Javascript ad file they have on the website. If you look at the source code, you will see the problem:
function update_ad_iframe(iframeId, url, tile, width, height, refresh,dcopt_value,ord) {
if($.browser.browser != "Safari" && $.browser.browser != "Firefox") {
//alert(iframeId);
//alert("update_ad_iframe called");
var scriptTag = get_ad_iframe_src(url, tile, width, height,dcopt_value,ord);
self.frames[iframeId].document.open();
self.frames[iframeId].document.write(scriptTag);
} else {
//alert(iframeId);
var src = "javascript:window.parent.get_ad_iframe_src('"
+ url
+ "', "
+ tile
+ ", "
+ width
+ ", "
+ height
+ ", '"
+ dcopt_value
+"', "
+ ord
+")";
//alert(src);
$('#' + iframeId).attr("src", src);
}
if (typeof(refresh) != "undefined") {
alert(refresh / 1000 / 60 + ': Minutes');
var fcnString = "update_ad_iframe('"+iframeId+"','"+url+"',"+tile+","+width+","+height+","+refresh+"*1000*60,'"+dcopt_value+"',"+ord+")";
setTimeout(fcnString, refresh+"*1000*60");
//alert(refresh / 1000 / 60 + ': Minutes to: ' + fcnString);
}
That last bit there, the last few lines is where it's really becoming the problem. There is just one easy way of dealing with this that I can see:
1. Get Google Chrome. It allows you to prevent further alerts from popping up during your visit there.
Disabling Javascript doesn't work, as the site relies on Javascript to run the games and many other things. Unfortunately, until they get this sorted out, I don't see how this website can stay usable.
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