Technical Forum

i keep receiving this tiny little pop up window in my bottom right hand of my screen whenever i am in any of the VT forums. i noticed that it started yesterday. it is also happening whether i am home or at work.

does someone know what this is for any why it is telling me not to close the window?

is this a VT thing or did i screw myself on both home and work computers somehow?

am just curious why it is only when i am accessing the VT forums is it appearing?

I haven't seen it.

But I never seem to get the hassle other people do with some VT adverts/pop-ups.

I suspect, as it's at home and at work, that it may well be a VT-related ad/ pop-up of some sort.

What does it want you to do, apart from not close the window?

I'd just close it anyway: I can't see that it will do any harm if you do.

thanks, i do close it.

but in trying to google about it, it seems it is some sort of cookie or something that attaches itself to random websites. i don't think it is a normal VT ad.

i have no idea. i just wish it would stop.

Hmmmmmmmm.

Worth running some sort of spyware checker on your machine/s, do you think? Might get rid of it?

haha it pops up everytime i hit reply here. weird.

yeah i guess im going to have to run something and find the files that are doing this. :/ grrrr. very grrr.

Am sending empathetic grrrrrrrs....... :-)

:)

hey! it didn't do it again. i think i deleted the cookie *crosses fingers*

thanks for your support and grrrs :)

I will cross my fingers too........ :-)

>>> i think i deleted the cookie

Hansi will never forgive you!

It's a small survey piece that we are running for a partner. It seems to be malfunctioning because it should only be appearing occasionally and only when you exit virtualtourist and are done browsing.

You mean you keep seeing it all the time?

It happened to me as well G but, it positioned itself just off my screen, and I could not bring it back on screen to read it, I just used ALT F4 to get rid of it

hi g - i was seeing it every time i hit reply to a form comment.

i thought that i was infected with spyware. thank you for letting me know that it was indeed something you guys intended. i didn't realize this and have been freaking out a bit. thinking i had a virus.

also, all it is it a tiny window in the bottom right of my screen saying do not close this window. and thats ALL it stays doing.

what kind of survey is this suppose to be taking and why isn't it asking me any darn questions?? >:P

It seems they have technical problems and couldn't get them sorted so we pulled them for now. I hate these things but occasionally we do a small amount as a courtesy to an advertiser who has a survey about particular travel topics. They are VERY rare, and should be VERY unobstrusive when the technical issues are sorted. It won't last long anyway.

thanks g

did you put it back g? because it is doing it again. when i hit reply in a forum thread. or actually when i was just looking at the forum updates from overnight. :/ anytime i went into a forum topic by clicking my forum updates on my notice console.

I didn't put it back, but I'll straighten it out if I have to...thanks for your patience.

Did I hear someone say deleting ''Cookies '' .
Please send them to my place ,so I can delete them (in my tummy )
hahaha

Have a nice day everyone

Hansi

I've had the same thing, and it is so far off to the right of the screen that I can't get to it even to see what it says. It won't let me close the browser unless I see it is there and close it.

Whenever I enter the forum it still pops up on me.

We're working on getting it squared away.

It is still happening May 9th. I finally got it pulled out to where I could see it, and it just says "Please don't close..." And then even tho I didn't, it did close.

it's annoying and stupid. We have been going back and forth and wasting tons of time with this...it's ridiculous...sorry for the inconvenience.