beware trojan's on the website.

Perfect, that explains alot, Thanks Flyboy!

the private message was sent on the 2nd aug at 01.32 but i did not get to look at it till this week.

If you still have that large blue box showing, try deleting your cookies and temp files and history. Close your internet explorer window and then open a new window and try going to the forum again. I think it might be somethign to do with that New Publication banner ad.

Big Blue Square

Yes. I’ve got it too. Took me ages to realise the site was below it. I know I’m daft:rolleyes:

Mine is ok just a larger ad for NEW PUBLICATION on the right hand side?

Yep. I have it.

Mine looked like that, as well as msn haha

Anybody else Got a huge blue box at the top of the screen, left of where it says`The Aviation Forum`. I think its normally advertisments. It looks like its been stretched about five times its normal size. Just a small red cross like when you cant see a picture.

Ben

Yep. I have it.

No B.B., all blue things normal at this end!:)

Anybody else Got a huge blue box at the top of the screen, left of where it says`The Aviation Forum`. I think its normally advertisments. It looks like its been stretched about five times its normal size. Just a small red cross like when you cant see a picture.

Ben

yes

Anybody else Got a huge blue box at the top of the screen, left of where it says`The Aviation Forum`. I think its normally advertisments. It looks like its been stretched about five times its normal size. Just a small red cross like when you cant see a picture.

Ben

Piggin’ T-28’s get everywhere – ‘orrible noisy things :p

Yes it was update day. I can vouch for that overe here as I run two different operating systems and both had updates and asked for restarts.

I thought it was unusual and never seen that exact caption before, but hey ho – no damage appears to be done.

No one expects the Spanish inquisition!

I thought it was unusual and never seen that exact caption before, but hey ho – no damage appears to be done.

Ok, that makes some sense, although pagen01 might still need to check it, as he was using two different operative systems.

The MoD work computer is unlikely to follow the microsoft automatic update, as they probably test the updates before releasing on the network. Its also likely that they would update after hours (when the worker drones have gone home).

However, its most likely nothing to worry about and it has 100% nothing to do with this forum.

No, yesterday was Windows update day at Microsoft – the latest update required an automatic restart, so you get that message.

Bruce

Thats what I did.

If you get the same message on two different OS, then its unlikely its a “true” OS message.

At work you should contact your IT admin, just to clear any mistakes.

Ignore the message at home. If its fake, then it might execute something else when clicking the “OK”. Close the window by using the X in the top right-hand corner.

If its a true message, then it will sort itself out, when you naturally shut down (and later restart) your PC.

I’mn not sure, no originator message with it, just ‘Restart your computer now or restart later’, thought it very strange as both computers didnt need restarting and have different operating systems.

Has anyone else here also run into the ‘restart computer now’ caption?
This was the only site I visited yesterday on my MoD computer at work, and I got that caption after a few mins. Lat night I went online with my own computer and visited a few sites, then came to this one and I got the same caption again.

Is that a true windows (or whatever your OS is) message, or a message spam (like the pop-up adds)?

I have not expirenced any.