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Chat => Tech Chat => Topic started by: roseway on October 21, 2007, 10:33:55 AM

Title: An odd happening
Post by: roseway on October 21, 2007, 10:33:55 AM
When I'm reading forums I use the mouse scroll wheel a lot, and sometimes I accidentally click the middle button at the same time. When I do this, FF pops up a message saying that it's unable to connect to the selected URL. All perfectly normal.

But this morning, when I was quickly scanning through some messages on TBB, I suddenly got transferred to a site offering male enhancement products. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it.)  For a moment I wondered if I'd encountered the first successful Linux trojan or something like that, but then I remembered the scroll wheel issue.

So I paged back to TBB and looked through all the messages to see if I could find the dodgy link, but I couldn't. There were a few links in people's sigs, but they were innocuous. I was unable to repeat the experience. So now I'm just a little bit puzzled as to what happened.
Title: Re: An odd happening
Post by: Floydoid on October 21, 2007, 10:44:14 AM
Maybe it's just one of those unexplained oddities... I.T. is like that.
Title: Re: An odd happening
Post by: scottiesmum on October 21, 2007, 12:21:15 PM
Eric,  what you haven't told us is,  did you buy anything  ?? :lol:
Title: Re: An odd happening
Post by: roseway on October 21, 2007, 12:42:07 PM
Certainly not. I have no need of such things! 8)
Title: Re: An odd happening
Post by: Floydoid on October 21, 2007, 01:40:49 PM
OK we believe you.
Title: Re: An odd happening
Post by: kitz on October 21, 2007, 02:07:19 PM
lol wouldnt have thought it was TBB related - just one of those things :lol:
Title: Re: An odd happening
Post by: Floydoid on October 21, 2007, 03:05:54 PM
What is TBB?
Title: Re: An odd happening
Post by: mr_chris on October 21, 2007, 03:13:03 PM
TBB is thinkbroadband.com - used to be ADSLGuide, which you may see us saying AG sometimes too, out of habit.
Title: Re: An odd happening
Post by: Floydoid on October 21, 2007, 03:13:55 PM
Ah ok :)