Posting test thread 1

[gummibaer]

My system is recovering from a malware infection. Thereare strange things on my screen when I view posts from this forum which other people do not see. This thread is just for working on this effect, nothing to do with fortran.

line 1
line 2
line 3

This just shows as three lines of code in the preview - and I understand for everybody else - but on my screen all this appears on one line.

Just let me check.....

Norbert


The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds - the pessimist fears this might be true.

 

[gummibaer]

Okay,
this showed fine when the screen opens, but once I move anything it snaps so that all entries are in one line.
Mods: Please allow me to evaluate this thing here, you may delete this thread once I resolved my problem.

another test: copied from wordpad:

line 1
line 2
line 3

Preview is okay...

Norbert

The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds - the pessimist fears this might be true.

 

[salgerman]

Have you tried a different browser? ...maybe is browser specific...a few months ago, I remember reading an article in slashdot that the German government had declared Chrome the safest browser...for what is worth.

Germán

 

[gummibaer]

I just tested with firefox and here the page looks okay.

Thanks.

Norbert


The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds - the pessimist fears this might be true.

 

[salgerman]

Often times it happens that W3 compliant pages do not show up well in internet explorer...it is just that even though people get together, maybe even Microsoft representatives, and develop a standard for everyone to adhere...soon, Microsoft does not care and starts deviating from the standard...with their market penetration and near-monopoly, most people don't notice.

 

[mikrom]

I have now the same problem with MS Internet Explorer, with Firefox it works fine.

 

[gummibaer]

Something to come to everybody by way of an IE-update ? I had a couple of automatic updates installed yesterday !?

Good thing would be - about the only one I fear - if mikrom has the same thing, then it is nothing to do with my malware infection.

BTW:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com

is a great site if you are looking for help in case of any problem with your computer. They even train their malwarefighters there and do not let them loose on the users before they meet a certain standard of ability. And you get top rank instructions on what to do. Simply great site that.

The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds - the pessimist fears this might be true.

 

[mikrom]

It's strange. I saw the problem today at my work. I have there 2 maschines one with windows XP and other with windows 7 (64 bit). The problem was on both maschines when I used IE. Now I'm at home with a notebook runnning windows Vista, I'm reading this thread using IE and everything seems to be OK.

 

[gullipe]

I also have this problem on my laptop computer running Windos XP with IE version 8.
The lines are OK for one second or so, but then become one line (and long programs unreadable).

 

[gummibaer]

Thats it. The boxes display okay for one second, I'd say for the time it takes to load the page. When loading is complete and the scrollbars get activated, the lines collapse into the single line.

My workaround is using Firefox for this forum.

Would be interesting to know if anybody has the same on other forums ?

Norbert


The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds - the pessimist fears this might be true.

 

[mikrom]

Now I tried it again.
The problem is on my Windows XP and Windows 7 with IE 8 installed on both machines.
On Windows Vista with IE 9 it works fine. Maybe I will try to upgrade IE 9 on the Windows 7 machine it it helps.

 

[mikrom]

I installed IE9 on the Windows 7 machine and the problem is solved. Now, everything works fine.
But I didn't find IE9 for Windows XP - it seems that the last version available for this OS is IE8 :-(

 

[gummibaer]

Thank you mikrom.
I will post this to the forum that currently assists me on my PC-problems (sse above). See what they can find.

Norbert


The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds - the pessimist fears this might be true.

 

[mikrom]

I could observate, that the issue has probably to do something with JavaScript. Maybe they changed some JavaScript function(s) last days... (and IE8 is known to have problems with JavaScript compatibility)
Although I coudn't prove this hypothesis, in fact disabling the scripting in IE8 helps me with this issue. But it's not possible to disable scripting permanently, because without it we couldn't post.

If you want, you can try it:
Click on menu Tools go down to Internet Options and select the tab Security.
Then click on the button Custom level...
Now roll down to Scripting and set the Active scripting to Disable

Look at the source codes if they are now ok or not.

But now you need to set Active scripting to Enable again, bacause without scripting enabled you cannot post your answers.

 

[gummibaer]

mikrom,

thank you very much for this evaluation.
And, this post is added under active scripting disabled...

Norbert


The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds - the pessimist fears this might be true.

 

[mikrom]

this post is added under active scripting disabled...

How? If I disable scripting then the Preview and Post buttons doesn't work here. Maybe you forgot to refresh or restart your browser after you disabled scripting..?

 

[gummibaer]

mikrom,

I'd say just by typing and clicking buttons (;-))

It is right, the Preview button does not work but the Post button does. Otherwise you would not be reading this. And I restarted IE 8 a few times now.

My scriptsettings in InternetOptions currently are:

Active Scripting - deactivated
Prompting for Information by scriptwindows... - deactivated
Confirmation program access to clipboard - confirm
Scripting of Java-applets - activated
updating statusbar via script - deactivated
XSS filter - activated.

Note: As do not use the English Version of IE, I do not know the equivalent English tags. I did translate what was there to english, maybe you need some imagination to know what is meant.

Norbert


The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds - the pessimist fears this might be true.

 

[gummibaer]

This problem seems resolved for me:
I had reset the Active Scripting option to enable - otherwise I would not have been able to star mikrom's post here.

Surfing to other threads lo ! In newer postings than the first of this thread here the lines show okay, even with active scripting enabled while these here stick to their funny behaviour.

So I guess it is a problem within the posting, not of the reading and bringing it to screen, that causes this effect.

I am not in the position to take a guess, what it could be to induce the malfunction, being just happy that things are back to normal.

Norbert


The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds - the pessimist fears this might be true.