Site advertisments using all my CPU.

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Lord Turkey Cough

It seems on some sites that they can use all my available CPU
at times, seriously screwing up my computer, I have to close the
window to stop it.
Why are these c*nts stealing my CPU?

And more to the point how do I stop it.

Some of the sites which might serve as an example

http://uk.weather.com/weather/local/NG7?x=27&post=ng7+&code=2fw&y=15

http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=2856

And a lot of the tabloid newspapers such as the sun star mirror etc..

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/

http://www.mirror.co.uk/

They don't do it al the time but ofen enough to annoy me.

What can I do to stop these b*stards????


Sorry about the underlining. (not my fault obviusly)


TIA
 
Why are these c*nts stealing my CPU?

And more to the point how do I stop it.

Some of the sites which might serve as an example
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Loaded every site you listed, each in a different tab, no problem.

It's not them, it's your computer.
 
Open Task Manager ..Procesess and see what actually is taking up your
cycles...It also would help to list some specs of your system.
peter
 
Uncle Grumpy said:
Loaded every site you listed, each in a different tab, no problem.
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I do but it is still annoying and soometime they cripple it so it is hard to
close the tab (if you can find it)
It's not them, it's your computer.
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No it is them they are in a word B*STARDS, they know what they are doing to
my
computer and do it initentinally.
I hope they go to hell.
 
It's a semperon 3000+ with Radeon exppress 2000 onboard
graphics ('fairly' new computer).

I want to stop the problem happening in the first place, I know
how to stop it, I have done that hundreds of times and I am
fed up with it.
 
Did visit the sites you mentioned (I have Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Windows XP
Home SP2 Dutch version) and I have no other CPU load then normal. Not even a
spike in CPU usage when going to those links.
I did have serious CPU load troubles though with the previous version of
Firefox. Don't know which version you have?

Menno
 
Lord said:
It seems on some sites that they can use all my available CPU
at times, seriously screwing up my computer, I have to close the
window to stop it.
Why are these c*nts stealing my CPU?

And more to the point how do I stop it.

Some of the sites which might serve as an example

http://uk.weather.com/weather/local/NG7?x=27&post=ng7+&code=2fw&y=15

http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=2856

And a lot of the tabloid newspapers such as the sun star mirror etc..

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/

http://www.mirror.co.uk/

They don't do it al the time but ofen enough to annoy me.

What can I do to stop these b*stards????


Sorry about the underlining. (not my fault obviusly)


TIA
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One trick I use, is I remove the Adobe Flash plugin from my
Firefox plugins. That means no Flash adverts can play in
Firefox. If I really need to review a site that uses
Flash, I do it in Explorer. I leave the Flash plugin installed
there.

In your soccerbase.com example, that loaded my CPU to 25%, due to
the scrolling things on either side of the page. For the uk.weather.com,
that registered pretty close to 0% on my computer. (P4 3.1GHz).

On the mirror.co.uk page, the "Latest News" thing near the top of the
page, is an animated image. When that bar updates, it uses 25% of
my CPU. Once the text finishes updating, CPU drops to 0%.

So you can use my Flash plugin trick, and try again.

The files I have in my junk directory, are "npswf32.dll" and
"NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe". I presume they must have been in my
Firefox plugins directory at one time.

Paul
 
TheCroW said:
Did visit the sites you mentioned (I have Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Windows XP
Home SP2 Dutch version) and I have no other CPU load then normal. Not even
a spike in CPU usage when going to those links.
I did have serious CPU load troubles though with the previous version of
Firefox. Don't know which version you have?
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127
Firefox/2.0.0.11

It is intermittant, happens occasionally when I have lots of tabs open
then one tab becomes problematic and pushes the cpu to 100.
 
Paul said:
One trick I use, is I remove the Adobe Flash plugin from my
Firefox plugins. That means no Flash adverts can play in
Firefox. If I really need to review a site that uses
Flash, I do it in Explorer. I leave the Flash plugin installed
there.

In your soccerbase.com example, that loaded my CPU to 25%, due to
the scrolling things on either side of the page. For the uk.weather.com,
that registered pretty close to 0% on my computer. (P4 3.1GHz).
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Yes that Soccorbase uses about 50% CPU, the weather one is intermittant
it is low now but sometimes it pushes the CPU to 100%, it might depend
on the advertisment.
How do i remove the plugins specifically.
 
Lord said:
Yes that Soccorbase uses about 50% CPU, the weather one is intermittant
it is low now but sometimes it pushes the CPU to 100%, it might depend
on the advertisment.
How do i remove the plugins specifically.
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If it is a Flash animation issue, are you using the Flashblock
extension? It blocks Flash from running until you click on a "Play"
button (the traditional right-pointing triangle), which would seem
easier to do that disabling Flash entirely and using IE when you need to
see Flash.

Andy
 
Lord said:
Yes that Soccorbase uses about 50% CPU, the weather one is intermittant
it is low now but sometimes it pushes the CPU to 100%, it might depend
on the advertisment.
How do i remove the plugins specifically.
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Search for a "plugins" folder on your computer. It might be -
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins

Look for the named files. Move the npswf32.dll file out of
the plugins, and store it in another folder on your C: drive.
I moved the NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe, but I don't know if that
one is as critical or not.

Note that web pages can be quite flexible. A lot of sites,
once they discover you don't have Flash installed, they will
substitute animated GIF images instead. So you won't get relief
from all forms of advertising.

To see what plugins are active, go to the place you type
URLs in Firefox and enter

about:plugins

That is how I check that the plugin has been successfully moved.
You'd have to quit Firefox and start a copy running again,
then do the "about:plugins" thing, to see that it has been
removed as an active plugin.

There is also a tool called "Flashblock", but I haven't tested
this. What this does, is allow the Flash stuff to download,
but then the window where the flash would go is blanked out.
The advantage of this, is the web page code shouldn't substitute
animated GIFs in place of the Flash (because it thinks you are
seeing the Flash advertising).

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/installation1.html

I'm happy enough with my current solution, because on the most
annoying sites, the blinking and flashing is more subdued than
it used to be. But I haven't completely killed the advertising,
and they can still use animated GIFs if they want.

As far as I know, if you run the Flash installer again, it will
install flash on all the browsers it can find. So if that happens,
I'd have to pull the DLL and whatever else out of the plugins
folder, yet again.

Paul
 
Paul said:
Search for a "plugins" folder on your computer. It might be -
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins

Look for the named files. Move the npswf32.dll file out of
the plugins, and store it in another folder on your C: drive.
I moved the NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe, but I don't know if that
one is as critical or not.

Note that web pages can be quite flexible. A lot of sites,
once they discover you don't have Flash installed, they will
substitute animated GIF images instead. So you won't get relief
from all forms of advertising.

To see what plugins are active, go to the place you type
URLs in Firefox and enter

about:plugins
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Seems rather comlicated and low level.
I thouoght it might have a menu todo such things for you.
I believe Internet Explorer does.
That is how I check that the plugin has been successfully moved.
You'd have to quit Firefox and start a copy running again,
then do the "about:plugins" thing, to see that it has been
removed as an active plugin.

There is also a tool called "Flashblock", but I haven't tested
this. What this does, is allow the Flash stuff to download,
but then the window where the flash would go is blanked out.
The advantage of this, is the web page code shouldn't substitute
animated GIFs in place of the Flash (because it thinks you are
seeing the Flash advertising).

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/installation1.html

I'm happy enough with my current solution, because on the most
annoying sites, the blinking and flashing is more subdued than
it used to be. But I haven't completely killed the advertising,
and they can still use animated GIFs if they want.

As far as I know, if you run the Flash installer again, it will
install flash on all the browsers it can find. So if that happens,
I'd have to pull the DLL and whatever else out of the plugins
folder, yet again.
Click to expand...

Yes it seems a bit of a 'chore'.

Thinking about it is sites which use advertisinig which screw things
up. However some seem to be OK, for example Utube, I don't
recall that ever being a problem. However if I do hit a problem
I know it will be one of the 'usual suspects' sites.

Anyway I have found something which might help
http://www.download3k.com/Antivirus-Report-Video-Ads-Blocker.html
I have not tried it yet though.

Posible I might have some sort of malware but I have never had anything
reported
by AVG
 
Andy Luddy said:
If it is a Flash animation issue, are you using the Flashblock extension?
It blocks Flash from running until you click on a "Play" button (the
traditional right-pointing triangle), which would seem easier to do that
disabling Flash entirely and using IE when you need to see Flash.
Click to expand...
Not sure what you are talking about.
 
Lord Turkey Cough said:
It seems on some sites that they can use all my available CPU
at times, seriously screwing up my computer, I have to close the
window to stop it.
Why are these c*nts stealing my CPU?

And more to the point how do I stop it.

Some of the sites which might serve as an example

http://uk.weather.com/weather/local/NG7?x=27&post=ng7+&code=2fw&y=15

http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=2856

And a lot of the tabloid newspapers such as the sun star mirror etc..

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/

http://www.mirror.co.uk/

They don't do it al the time but ofen enough to annoy me.

What can I do to stop these b*stards????


Sorry about the underlining. (not my fault obviusly)
Click to expand...

Seems like the easiest soluution in the long run would be to write my
own browser, plug ins and java and operating system.
 
Lord said:
Seems like the easiest soluution in the long run would be to write my
own browser, plug ins and java and operating system.
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You can do that. They released the source to Netscape years ago, and
you could use that as your code base. I've got a copy of the source
somewhere.

Something a little simpler, might be to try another browser.
I haven't looked at Opera for a few years, but if you're bored,
try this out. Even if this doesn't work properly with every site,
maybe you'll get some value from it.

http://www.opera.com/

Paul
 
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It seems on some sites that they can use all my available CPU
at times, seriously screwing up my computer, I have to close the
window to stop it.
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Use the NoScript extension to allow only the scripts you need to run.

http://noscript.net
 
Paul said:
You can do that. They released the source to Netscape years ago, and
you could use that as your code base. I've got a copy of the source
somewhere.

Something a little simpler, might be to try another browser.
I haven't looked at Opera for a few years, but if you're bored,
try this out. Even if this doesn't work properly with every site,
maybe you'll get some value from it.
Click to expand...


Actually it seems the problem is not so much the browser but the add-ons.
You would have to make the browser do what the add ons should do.
But disabling adds would be a good idea, afterall who wants them anyway.
 
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