Web pages open as "Code" ???

[casey.o]

Every once and awhile, I'll open a webpage and rather than loading the
text and pictures, and other stuff, it loads to HTML CODE. My screen is
just a bunch of mostly meaningless code.......
This can happen using any browser, and dont seem to matter if it's an
old or new browser. However I mostly only use Mozilla based browsers.
This can happen using XP or Win98 too, so it dont seem to matter which
OS is in use.

This seems to just randomly occur, and can happen on any website, but
does seem to mostly happen to sites with a lot of data, rather than a
simple site. Clicking the refresh button will fix it.

It's not all that much of a problem, since it dont happen real often,
but I am curious why this happens?????

BTW: It has happened using both dialup and high speed at WIFI spots.

 

[Hot-Text]

HTML CODE = No
PHP Code = Yes Ahd it kick out HTML we all see

Dont seem to matter
Who your are
or
The OS you have
But it just
Happens
to all

Well it's
The WebMaster
Did it
And it Been Log
As a 500 Internal Server Error ( General )
Or
413 Requested Entity Too Large

But it Just Happen's

 

[casey.o]

Disable your anti-virus software, reboot (make sure the AV is still
disabled), and test again. Could be the AV's interrogation of your web
traffic is causing the problem. Of course, that means you had better be
visiting only well-known and trusted sites when surfing unprotected.

I dont have any AV software running on my laptop. I only use it to
download stuff and dont open the files on it. I move everything to my
home computer to open it. Well, yea, I do sometimes watch a video or
listen to music on the laptop, but that stuff is pretty safe. About the
only files I open on the laptop are upgrades to Firefox. I try to keep
that computer really stripped down. The harddrive is small, and I tend
to fill it fast when I go on a download "binge".

 

[VanguardLH]

Every once and awhile, I'll open a webpage and rather than loading the
text and pictures, and other stuff, it loads to HTML CODE. My screen is
just a bunch of mostly meaningless code.......
This can happen using any browser, and dont seem to matter if it's an
old or new browser. However I mostly only use Mozilla based browsers.
This can happen using XP or Win98 too, so it dont seem to matter which
OS is in use.

This seems to just randomly occur, and can happen on any website, but
does seem to mostly happen to sites with a lot of data, rather than a
simple site. Clicking the refresh button will fix it.

It's not all that much of a problem, since it dont happen real often,
but I am curious why this happens?????

BTW: It has happened using both dialup and high speed at WIFI spots.

Disable your anti-virus software, reboot (make sure the AV is still
disabled), and test again. Could be the AV's interrogation of your web
traffic is causing the problem. Of course, that means you had better be
visiting only well-known and trusted sites when surfing unprotected.

 

[Mayayana]

It will sometimes do that if the file extension
isn't recognized. It also does that if you happen
to click a link going to .js, .css, etc. It *could*
do that if the webpage code is funky, but I've
never seen that happen. There's some extremely
"non-conforming" webpage code out there, but
browsers are designed to try and make the best
of whatever the code says.


| Every once and awhile, I'll open a webpage and rather than loading the
| text and pictures, and other stuff, it loads to HTML CODE. My screen is
| just a bunch of mostly meaningless code.......
| This can happen using any browser, and dont seem to matter if it's an
| old or new browser. However I mostly only use Mozilla based browsers.
| This can happen using XP or Win98 too, so it dont seem to matter which
| OS is in use.
|
| This seems to just randomly occur, and can happen on any website, but
| does seem to mostly happen to sites with a lot of data, rather than a
| simple site. Clicking the refresh button will fix it.
|
| It's not all that much of a problem, since it dont happen real often,
| but I am curious why this happens?????
|
| BTW: It has happened using both dialup and high speed at WIFI spots.
|

 

[Hot-Text]

| >[email protected] wrote:
| >> Every once and awhile, I'll open a webpage and rather than loading the
| >> text and pictures, and other stuff, it loads to HTML CODE. My screen
is
| >> just a bunch of mostly meaningless code.......
| >> This can happen using any browser, and dont seem to matter if it's an
| >> old or new browser. However I mostly only use Mozilla based browsers.
| >> This can happen using XP or Win98 too, so it dont seem to matter which
| >> OS is in use.
| >> This seems to just randomly occur, and can happen on any website, but
| >> does seem to mostly happen to sites with a lot of data, rather than a
| >> simple site. Clicking the refresh button will fix it.
| >> It's not all that much of a problem, since it dont happen real often,
| >> but I am curious why this happens?????
| >> BTW: It has happened using both dialup and high speed at WIFI spots.
| >
| >Disable your anti-virus software, reboot (make sure the AV is still
| >disabled), and test again. Could be the AV's interrogation of your web
| >traffic is causing the problem. Of course, that means you had better be
| >visiting only well-known and trusted sites when surfing unprotected.
|
| I dont have any AV software running on my laptop. I only use it to
| download stuff and dont open the files on it. I move everything to my
| home computer to open it. Well, yea, I do sometimes watch a video or
| listen to music on the laptop, but that stuff is pretty safe. About the
| only files I open on the laptop are upgrades to Firefox. I try to keep
| that computer really stripped down. The harddrive is small, and I tend
| to fill it fast when I go on a download "binge".

You need a anti-virus on all laptop and PC
Sometimes the video and mp4 you watch is unsafe
That go for well-known and trusted sites too!

So You pass-it-on
Unsafe download
To your computer
Just because lie to your computer
Saying It can trust your laptop

 

[JJ]

Sometimes the video and mp4 you watch is unsafe

Hilarious

 

[Good Guy]

Hilarious

Presumably he is talking about those hard core porn videos that could
give you aids and other STDs - Sexually transmitted diseases.

 

[casey.o]

Hilarious

Well, some of the stuff they show on youtube is VERY UNSAFE...... Some
of these kids doing daredevil stuff, car crashes, eating poisons or
excessive drugs, and there is even one where some guy sets a certain
part of his body on fire. (I wont say which part)
There are even a few videos on there who can make even the toughest
person vomit.

I dont make a habit of watching that kind of junk, but there have been
some moments where I just typed into the search bar, something really
horrible, or disgusting, and there is always some video to match it.
But alot of the younger guys dont ever look at the good stuff.....
There are full movies, some great documentaries, and one of my favorite
things are finding some really old TV coverage of soem bands from the
50's thru 70's, then finding their reunion videos from recent years and
seeing they can still "jam". If you're older, I just found a reunion of
the 60's band "Buffalo Springfield". It was great, and that goes in my
archives, which is why I download the stuff. I also found, while
looking for "Buffalo Springfield" some very old actual footage of
Buffalo Bill, which was copied from some really old film. That's a
treasure!

But as far as malware, I have never heard of any MP4, FLV, or MP3 file
containing a virus. Not that it's impossible, I guess. I just heard
that a PDF can contain a virus, but that's because soem of them use Java
Script....

And did you know that a TEXT file can contain a virus? Yep, just type
the word "Virus" in the text file, and that text file contains a virus
For that matter,,,,,,,,
THIS message contains a VIRUS <----- (there it is).

 

[Hot-Text]

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| On Mon, 5 May 2014 12:25:53 -0500, Hot-Text wrote:
| > Sometimes the video and mp4 you watch is unsafe
|
| Hilarious

But True

We all do need a
Good anti-virus

For all laptop
And PC
Yes Mac Too

Sometimes
You will watch
A unsafe Flash

That go for
Well-known Server-Side Flash Sites
And trusted sites too!

Scripts, Databases
and Dynamic
All in your computer
Saying trust laptop
Lol Hilarious Flash

 

[Hot-Text]

| On 05/05/2014 23:29, JJ wrote:
| > On Mon, 5 May 2014 12:25:53 -0500, Hot-Text wrote:
| >> Sometimes the video and mp4 you watch is unsafe
| > Hilarious

<News>
<Head lang="en">
| Presumably he is talking about those hard core porn videos that could
| give you aids and other STDs - Sexually transmitted diseases.
</Head>
<Body text="#fff000">

Maybe in your
Web Browser Cache
Some Very Hard Stuff

You need
To look out for your on (PC)
Flash transmitted
UFCG ActionScript
Unsafe
Flash
Hard
Core
Videos
Games are out there
It your (Dick)

So keep a good
Anti-Virus on

For you would not
Like to see your
Picker fall off it's
XP Desktop Die

</body>
</News>

 

[casey.o]

But True

We all do need a
Good anti-virus

For all laptop
And PC
Yes Mac Too

Sometimes
You will watch
A unsafe Flash

That go for
Well-known Server-Side Flash Sites
And trusted sites too!

Scripts, Databases
and Dynamic
All in your computer
Saying trust laptop
Lol Hilarious Flash

Do you intentionally format your messages so weirdly, or is your
newsreader screwed up? Or maybe your TAB key is stuck???

 

[Mayayana]

| But as far as malware, I have never heard of any MP4, FLV, or MP3 file
| containing a virus. Not that it's impossible, I guess. I just heard
| that a PDF can contain a virus, but that's because soem of them use Java
| Script....
|
| And did you know that a TEXT file can contain a virus? Yep, just type
| the word "Virus" in the text file, and that text file contains a virus
| For that matter,,,,,,,,
| THIS message contains a VIRUS <----- (there it is).
|

I was recently dealing with Avira because I have
software that was getting false positives from it.
(I don't normally use AV, either.) When I ran a scan,
Avira turned up all sorts of nonsense malware. One
was a sample of an HTML file that will crash IE. It's
just one short line of faulty style code with a couple
of HTML tags added. I'd kept it as a curiosity, because
it's so surprisingly simple. Avira wouldn't let me touch
the file.

 

[Mayayana]

| >Disable your anti-virus software, reboot (make sure the AV is still
| >disabled), and test again. Could be the AV's interrogation of your web
| >traffic is causing the problem. Of course, that means you had better be
| >visiting only well-known and trusted sites when surfing unprotected.
|
| I dont have any AV software running on my laptop.

Speak of the devil:

http://arstechnica.com/security/201...antec-declares-av-dead-and-doomed-to-failure/

Symantec admits that AV is outdated and of little value. Their
"senior president" says AV only catches 45% of bugs.

 

[VanguardLH]

|>Disable your anti-virus software, reboot (make sure the AV is still
|>disabled), and test again. Could be the AV's interrogation of your web
|>traffic is causing the problem. Of course, that means you had better be
|>visiting only well-known and trusted sites when surfing unprotected.
|
| I dont have any AV software running on my laptop.

Speak of the devil:

http://arstechnica.com/security/201...antec-declares-av-dead-and-doomed-to-failure/

Symantec admits that AV is outdated and of little value. Their
"senior president" says AV only catches 45% of bugs.

So because the number of sales of Symantec's AV solution are falling
must surely be why the protection of AV solutions are falling. Uh huh.
Couldn't be due to free AV solutions equalling or surpassing Norton AV
could it? Oh no, that Symantec is generating less revenue must surely
mean the solution is failing.

Symantec is just making excuses for their decline in revenues to
eventually qualify selling off Norton AV or discontinuing it. It's
preemptive posturing to qualify an action.

Only boobs believe signatures catch a large percentage of malware. What
AV software do you use that relies solely on signatures?

 

[casey.o]

That's too modern for me. I'm often into Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, and the
wonderful voice of Helen Forrest!

I can appreciate Glenn Miller. Was a little before my time, but was
something my parents liked, so it reminds me of my youth. And I like
that "big band" sound. It's kind of funny how things shifted from lots
of brass instruments to guitars and string instruments in the 60's. Now
these days, they dont even use instruments anymore, it's all
synthisizers and samplers. I wonder what will be next????

Of course now a days, country music is more like rock, and rock is
referred to as this synthetic music, and so on..... I can appreciate
many types of music, even some of the modern stuff, but I still think
the stuff from the 50's thru the 70's is the best. Particularly what
they called Rock and Country back then..... Seems there was a lot more
talent back then. I do occasionally like some of modern stuff, but
litttle of it.

One other thing I've noted is that it seems the biggest hits in the last
few years has all come from other parts of the world. Ghandam style
(Psy) from Korea, What does the Fox Say (Ylvis) from Norway, and there
seems to be quite a lot of good Irish rock coming from Ireland.

Much if not most of the music coming from the US in recent years is
garbage. Some dont even qualify as music, such as Rap.....
Yeecccchhhhhh. But even that crap seems to sell, but not to me....
Going out to a bar these days often requires a set of ear plugs. When
they start playing that crap on these "internet juke boxes", I often
want to plug my ears.....
It's kind of funny, because when the old guys come in during the week,
the music tends to be the oldies, but on the weekends it seems like
someone let the "kids" out of a cage, and someone needs to unplug or use
a sledge hammer on that damn jukebox....

 

[casey.o]

| But as far as malware, I have never heard of any MP4, FLV, or MP3 file
| containing a virus. Not that it's impossible, I guess. I just heard
| that a PDF can contain a virus, but that's because soem of them use Java
| Script....
|
| And did you know that a TEXT file can contain a virus? Yep, just type
| the word "Virus" in the text file, and that text file contains a virus
| For that matter,,,,,,,,
| THIS message contains a VIRUS <----- (there it is).
|

I was recently dealing with Avira because I have
software that was getting false positives from it.
(I don't normally use AV, either.) When I ran a scan,
Avira turned up all sorts of nonsense malware. One
was a sample of an HTML file that will crash IE. It's
just one short line of faulty style code with a couple
of HTML tags added. I'd kept it as a curiosity, because
it's so surprisingly simple. Avira wouldn't let me touch
the file.

I manually run Spybot on a weekly basis, or more often if something
seems awry. That finds most malware. I also keep track of what is going
into my Windows/Temp folder, because that is normally where the crap
originates. I cant find any AV software for Win98 anymore..... But
Spybot still works, and "Hijack This" also helps. Win98 is not all that
prone to viruses anymore, but it still gets the other crap, what they
call spyware or adware. I just dealt with something called "ilivid".
It's a toolbar that redirects everything to "Ask.com". That one was not
easy to remove. Rather than waste a lot of time on it, I just booted to
Win2K, and replaced the entire Win98 folder from my backup. Somehow
that piece of shit, created 7 folders in my Windows/Temp, and each
folder had an identical copy of the malware files, plus over 6000 Zero
length .TMP files. That works out to somewhere around 42,000 TMP files.
Did you ever try to delete that many files? It takes forever. I even
tried to do it from Dos, (using Deltree) but that was even slower.
Thats when I was wishing there was soem sort of utility that would just
wipe away an entire folder (Temp) with one sweep, but I'm not aware of
such a thing.

Avoid anything called "ilivid" and vdownloader. It came from
http://vdownloader.com/.

It's too bad that no one can delete sites like that...

 

[Gene Wirchenko]

On Mon, 05 May 2014 23:12:20 -0400, (e-mail address removed) wrote:

[snip]

And did you know that a TEXT file can contain a virus? Yep, just type
the word "Virus" in the text file, and that text file contains a virus
For that matter,,,,,,,,
THIS message contains a VIRUS <----- (there it is).

1) Several years ago, I downloaded a batch file virus. Batch files
are text files.

2) There is a short test file for antivirus software that is all
displayable text characters. It is an executable. I do not see why
the same approach could not be used to create a real virus.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

 

[Mayayana]

| 1) Several years ago, I downloaded a batch file virus. Batch files
| are text files.
|
| 2) There is a short test file for antivirus software that is all
| displayable text characters. It is an executable. I do not see why
| the same approach could not be used to create a real virus.
|

The text is not executable. An executable
interprets the text. A number of text-based file
types can be used to create malware: vbs, js,
html, hta, bat... but they're all interpreted and
acted on by some kind of software. A txt file --
or plain text alone -- is not executable.

 

[casey.o]

So because the number of sales of Symantec's AV solution are falling
must surely be why the protection of AV solutions are falling. Uh huh.
Couldn't be due to free AV solutions equalling or surpassing Norton AV
could it? Oh no, that Symantec is generating less revenue must surely
mean the solution is failing.

Symantec is just making excuses for their decline in revenues to
eventually qualify selling off Norton AV or discontinuing it. It's
preemptive posturing to qualify an action.

Only boobs believe signatures catch a large percentage of malware. What
AV software do you use that relies solely on signatures?

I have often wondered if companies that sell AV software actually create
viruses, just to make more sales???? And Symantec is one of the last
companies I'd trust.....

While there is no proof of them creating viruses, there is proof of some
of them spreading scare tactics which are often very over blown. And
then there are these sites that popup crap like "Your computer is
Infected"..... As soon as I see that shit, I wont have anything to do
with that company or their website.