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morpheus13
07-06-2002, 01:50 AM
I know people have posted similar questions (believe me I looked through them all), but here it is. I've recently been plagued by annoying popup error messages when I access web pages. This is what they all look like:

Internet Explorer Script Error
An error has occurred in the script on this page.
Line: 3
Char: 1
Error: The callee (server[not server application]) is not available and disappeared: all connections are invalid. The call did not execute.
Code: 0
URL: http://www.1stairfare.info/
Do you want to continue running scripts on this page?
Yes No

They all look like this. Occasionally, there are variants in the line, char, and code values, but, as far as I know, the URL and Error messages are always the same but occur on almost every page. I've disabled script debugging, unchecked "display a notification about every script error", and disabled smooth scrolling (which seems to have decreased the amount of errors but hasn't stopped them). Though I didn't think it'd work (and it didn't), I even disabled friendly http error messages. (this is all in the internet options advanced tab, if that helps). They seem to happen a lot during the first half hour or so that i'm online, then decrease (At least I think so. Although, I'm not sure if that has anything to do with the problem). I think this started when my brother, on his user profile, changed his settings to default in an attempt to get his font size back to normal.(I think)

Does anyone know a registry tweak to stop this? If so, be specific because I'm pretty new to this registry editing stuff. Anything that I could do without messing with the registry would be great too. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

By the way my version of inernet explorer is 5.50.4807.2300 and I'm running windows 98 second edition.
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by morpheus13 on 07/05/02 20:55.</FONT></P>

IKBrunel
07-06-2002, 08:36 AM
It sounds as if you have downloaded some "spyware"
Try a search on C: for all instances of 1stairware.
Download AdAware from www.lavasoft.nu and run it.

IKB

morpheus13
07-07-2002, 04:37 AM
Unfortunately I have Ad-aware (new version, newest reference file) and that's not the problem. Thank you for trying to help though. You're the only person so far who has. By the way, Ad-aware is great and all but pest patrol seems to find more spyware. Unfortunately, it costs money and the trial version only finds spyware but won't delete it. I just cleared out my cookies folder (not the one in internet options).

Also, I might as well add to my post while I'm at it. I've found this to be a problem with certain popup ads that my popup stopping program is closing. It's not the program because I had it for at least a month before this problem started and it seems to only be with the popup ads with the aforementioned url. I'm guessing there isn't a way to stop the error from occurring, so I need to find a way to stop Internet Explorer from displaying script error messages altogether. This can probably only be done through registry editing, which I'm new to. So again, any help concerning this matter will be appreciated.

Nana
07-07-2002, 07:50 AM
morpheus13,

Have a look at this <a target="_blank" href=http://www.winguides.com/forums/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=brdIE&Number=55440&Search=true&Forum=All_Forums&Words=stairfare&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=1year&Main=55440>thread</a>.

Nana /images/forums/icons/smile.gif

morpheus13
07-07-2002, 05:36 PM
Thank you, but before I made my post, I looked through all the threads in this forum for answers, especially that thread, since the person who wrote it was having problems with the same url. The first link worked but didn't help, and the second two didn't take me anywhere. I also had already tried the solutions listed in the second reply. I'm pretty sure the scripting in these popup ads is the problem. I'm guessing that until these popups are removed from the websites that they're on, the problem will persist. In the meantime, I'm looking for a registry hack or something similar that can stop any script errors from being displayed in Internet Explorer permanently.

IKBrunel
07-07-2002, 06:02 PM
Internet Explorer Tools Internet Options:
Delete ALL cookies, ALL Files, making sure that "all offline content is ticked" clear history.
Search hardrive for any reference "1stairfare" deleting same.


Open Regedit click edit... find, 1stairfare if any reference found delete it, (it will find some reference because of the hardrive search)
You could enter *.*1stairfare.com into the restricted site zone.
When you see the script error message box, is there a check box, to not show script errors again?

IKB

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by IKBrunel on 07/07/02 13:08.</FONT></P>

morpheus13
07-08-2002, 12:05 AM
Thank you so much. It actually worked! I can't believe I didn't think of that.

IKBrunel
07-08-2002, 08:59 AM
Have you tried using AdSubtract?
www.adsubtract.com

IKB