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Title: Anyone else have a PDF file try to launch?
Post by: GAtekwriter on October 27, 2007, 08:22:04 pm

Every time I visit byoac.com Adobe Acrobat autoruns and tries to open some PDF file (or other file type)... not sure why this is happening, but it only happens on this site.  Anyone else seeing this?

Jim

Title: Re: Anyone else have a PDF file try to launch?
Post by: saint on October 27, 2007, 10:22:44 pm

That on the front page only, or elsewhere?

Title: Re: Anyone else have a PDF file try to launch?
Post by: GAtekwriter on October 28, 2007, 08:45:29 pm

Front page only... thanks.

Jim

Title: Re: Anyone else have a PDF file try to launch?
Post by: saint on October 28, 2007, 10:27:46 pm

Try and open these news items directly and tell me if any of them trigger PDF launch?

http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade_news.php/2547

http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade_news.php/2545

http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade_news.php/2544

....

For comparison's sake, these also:

http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade_news.php/2537

http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade_news.php/2543

Title: Re: Anyone else have a PDF file try to launch?
Post by: patrickl on October 29, 2007, 04:30:50 am

FWIW I get a "QuickTimeCheck Scriptable Object" warning on all links, but no PDF or other Adobe launches.

Title: Re: Anyone else have a PDF file try to launch?
Post by: GAtekwriter on October 29, 2007, 07:33:17 am

Same issue on #1, 2, 3, and 5... #4 in the list did not.

Jim

Title: Re: Anyone else have a PDF file try to launch?
Post by: GAtekwriter on October 30, 2007, 01:46:03 pm

Correction:  Now, all 5 sample pages are trying to open Adobe Acrobat.  Yesterday, the fourth one in the list didn't do it, but I ran through them again a moment ago and all 5 are behaving identically.  Very unusual.

Thanks, Saint.

Jim

Title: Re: Anyone else have a PDF file try to launch?
Post by: saint on October 30, 2007, 03:07:44 pm

Some of those are embedded videos, some are static html pages essentially. The only thing that changes on them is the google ads. I don't know what's happening, I'm guessing something on your system has been associated with Adobe Acrobat Reader that isn't normally? If other people were getting the pop up I'd be more inclined to think something strange had gone on with the web page code. I don't know. This isn't the first time this has come up, but it's always been isolated incidents for one or two people. I've never figured it out :(

Title: Re: Anyone else have a PDF file try to launch?
Post by: GAtekwriter on October 30, 2007, 03:35:08 pm

Well, it's not a major issue - just a small annoyance.  If anyone know of a program that runs in the background that will tell you what services/apps/files are trying to be opened when you visit a webpage, please let me know as that would be helpful in tracking down the culprit.  Otherwise, I'll just deal...

Jim