site crashes my IE when submitting a post

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sometimes when I try to submit a new post, the site crashes and takes all IE windows down with it. It happens only on HL2.net, so I think that it has to be somehow site related.

any ideas?

I have Kerio PF installed, Avast! AV, XP SP2 with all the updates and IE6.
windows firewall is turned off and security settings are higher than average (but not high - just turned off things like 'copy and paste via script')

any help will be much appreciated :cheers:
 
Can't say as I've experienced this in either IE or FF.. It's possibly an error on your end. Check your settings again.
 
oberGeist said:
sometimes when I try to submit a new post, the site crashes and takes all IE windows down with it. It happens only on HL2.net, so I think that it has to be somehow site related.

any ideas?

I have Kerio PF installed, Avast! AV, XP SP2 with all the updates and IE6.
windows firewall is turned off and security settings are higher than average (but not high - just turned off things like 'copy and paste via script')

any help will be much appreciated :cheers:
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This has nothing to do with HL2.net. :burp:

Clear your cache, delete your temporary internet files.

Open IE, Choose Tools, Internet Options
On the general tab choose settings, View Objects. Check all the plugin/apps IE is using. Delete what is not needed.

Run Spybot (It's free).

Again this is not specific to HL2.net and it is absurd to think you are the first person with IE to experience this error that HL2.net is causing hehe. You either have spyware or a corrupt plugin.
 
The other thing causing it is your high security settings. Your firewall is probably blocking referrer information. This information is what records on people's webstats about which site they were last at before coming here.

Naturally if you were already on our site and you're just visiting another page, what happens is the referrer info says "Ok www.halflife2.net/*, I've just come from www.halflife2.net/*".

Normally this wouldn't matter but due to some retards earlier on in the year, we installed a hack on the forums that insists the above information is given, to stop people from external sources from making posts as people were writing malicious scripts so that visiting a certain website would automate hundreds of posts in our forum.

So to create a post here your computer needs to say "Ok www.halflife2.net/*, I've just come from www.halflife2.net/*" or your post gets blocked. First time I've heard of it crashing someone's system, but it could be something.

If there's an option for it some where, but www.halflife2.net as an exclusion to blocking referrer information. Also, make sure you're visiting the site from www.halflife2.net and not just halflife2.net or our IP address.
 
Thanks very much for Your answers!!

about spyware - I'm scanning my system with AdAware every day, so it's not likely that I have some adware or spyware on my PC. also Avast! is up to date, and I'm sometimes using on-line virus scanners.
Kerio is blocking all unwanted programs, and I've had no Spyware in a very long time. so it's not a problem with malicious sh*t that plays with my system.

also I always visit the site directly (www.halflife2.net, not by IP number) but often use BACK and FORWARD in IE while browsing, and maybe that causes the site to go crazy with referrer information and crash my IE.

looks like I'm the only one here with this kind of problem, so it has to be something on my end. possibly it's about security settings, gotta check them all. I'll try and put hl2.net into trusted sites and do the same in my firewall.

again thank You!! :thumbs:
and a big :cheers: to You all
 
Yeah set it as a trusted site. Let me know how you get on :)
 
ok, HL2.net is now officially my trusted site :thumbs:
we'll see if this works after I submit some more posts....

btw - about spammers and other idiots storming the forums lately - wouldn't setting daily post limits for newer members help? based on post count or registration date. like 2 posts/day through first week, and adding one post daily every week.
just a thought, but I think that it would limit the amount of people who in desire of getting some attention only want to wreak havoc on sites like this... if anyone really wants to be a part of the community, she/he would wait patiently and use their posts wisely. and if not - well screw 'em anyways...


edit: the site just crashed... I'll have to live with it I guess, or maybe switch to another browser (like firefox). damn
 
*cough* use *cough* FireFox *cough*

no really, it's simply way better then IE
 
oberGeist said:
ok, HL2.net is now officially my trusted site :thumbs:
we'll see if this works after I submit some more posts....

btw - about spammers and other idiots storming the forums lately - wouldn't setting daily post limits for newer members help? based on post count or registration date. like 2 posts/day through first week, and adding one post daily every week.
just a thought, but I think that it would limit the amount of people who in desire of getting some attention only want to wreak havoc on sites like this... if anyone really wants to be a part of the community, she/he would wait patiently and use their posts wisely. and if not - well screw 'em anyways...


edit: the site just crashed... I'll have to live with it I guess, or maybe switch to another browser (like firefox). damn
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There may be something your adware/spyware/virus scans are missing. Go to Start > Run > Type in MSCONFIG and see what's in your start up items. If you don't know what's what in the Startup tab there then post the full list here and I'll talk you through what's needed and what's not. I have exactly four start up items in my list... you shouldn't normally have many more than that.

Firefox is great though: www.getfirefox.com. Incidentally I also use Mozilla Thunderbird as my e-mail client, much better than Outlook IMO.

With regards to the spammer thing, this was an automated thing that actually targeted people's cookies. So existing members were being caught by it and a script simply executed stuff from their cookies making them post. We've talked about limiting new users before and we've decided not to do it. We don't want to have that kinda attitude where we say "Right, you're new so we're gonna stop you from doing this...". We just don't think it's very fair.
 
I checked my autostart and no unknown items were found. I have about 10 of them, but most are ATI's control pannel stuff, quicktime task and AV processes. I think that this may be an IE problem, that's why I switched to firefox yesterday :E . right now we're getting to know each other, but it seems faster and much safer than IE.

and good point there Chris about not limiting new users. after all - the internet is a democracy, so everyone should be equal. as we can see the community can defend itself pretty well from spammers and other di*kheads.

thanks again, I hope that no more problems will occur while browsing through HL2.net
 
got Firefox!

got Laid!

I'm happy!
:p


the problem is no more, still getting used to Firefox tho...

thx for all the answers!
especially for those on the subject!:p
:cheers:
 
So, Stardog... You like to watch an E kick a fox that is on fire in the groin?
 
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