Weird glitches on AW

[maytag85]

I was reading a thread in the archives called "Gas or Electric Halo of Heat" and some weird glitch happened. It spammed/spawned my profile picture all over someone else's comment, and I went on to the thread about the Maytag DE306 HOH dryer I just aquired recently, and it the Edit your comment was kinda weird too. I took screen shots of the glitch

 

[vacerator]

????? Site not secure

as stated at top of pages i.
Have good virus protection.

 

[Unimatic1140]

That thread in question is here: http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?40084

I cannot get bug to reproduce, does anyone else see that happening in the thread above?

As for the question of secure or not, that message in modern browsers has to do more with sites that take in very personal information. It simply means the page is not being rendered under https. I do plan on eventually converting the site to all https, but it's going to be a huge undertaking and will only be able to do it when I have time. I have converted the login page to https, and that is really the only page on the site that takes in even the slightest bit of personal information. The upgrade pages are all redirected to PayPal and their website is highly secure. In the 17 years that I've run this site any virus type issue has never been reported to me. The site software is completely custom written which makes it much harder for spammers to break in unlike other forums that use standard off-the-shelf software.

 

[foraloysius]

No, no problems with that thread.

 

[thomasortega]

All normal here...

Using Google Chrome, windows 10 and Alienware/Dell big ass computer

 

[frigilux]

The same thing (not that thread) happens to me a couple of times a year. I always use an iPad, iMac, or MacBook Pro. I cure it by closing AW, then going into settings to “Clear History and Website Data.”

It doesn’t happen often and when it does all other threads behave normally.

 

[ea56]

I cure it by closing AW, then going into settings to

“Clear History and Website Data” Great advice Eugene for Apple users!

This is always the best course of action when using Apple. Always works for me with any problem with a webpage, although seldom a problem with AW. I do notice however that more often now I can’t log on due to too many connections to the server. This site is popular.
Eddie