Flash add problems?

Today on a couple occassions I noticed poor response on VDR, hangs actually. Then I started getting popups from the flash player warning of excessive processor usage from a particular script running. It seems this script is related to the ad for the Centrino, where with the guy is looking at his notebook. I'm not sure this is the only one, but it is the worst. It causes very high and constant cpu usage.

Not sure if other's are seeing this problem? Regardless, some of the macromedia flash animations and/or their underlying scripts do seem to be sucking up a lot of processor cycles.

Followup... No question about it, that one Centrino (and there may be more) flash ad definately has a problem. It sucks up all available processor until I tell the script to stop running.

Thanks for the info. :)

Delete the Shockwave Flash version you have in C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files
as it maybe corrupt and your browser will download a new version when it needs it. That should fix that problem.

Your not the only one

http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...hreadid=154074


:)

I second what Train suggests. I too had problems with this ad, and after ridding myself of the old flash, I installed new version and all is well now. :)

What ads ? :D :D

I don't see this particular ad either.

:D :D " WHAT ADDS?":D :D

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Originally posted by TJolly
I don't see this particular ad either.

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Some security features on firewalls etc prevent it showing hence the "what ads" comment :D

I haven't got a firewall that I know of.

TJolly, maybe it's a border thing, why you can't see it.....too far to transmit across the Atlantic. :D

OK, I was curious so....

For the record, the problematic ad is this one here

The problem I reported was happening on certain machines I used. It turns out that the machines that had the problem were using version 5 of the macromedia flash plugin (this is the default that comes with say ie). I might well have experienced the problem with version 6 of the plugin as well. OS version or IE version didn't matter. In any case, where I had version 7 (whichever sub release) or upgraded to 7 the problem stopped.

Conclusion, this ad or its underlying script is relying on things specific to the most current version of the flash plugin. Not good at all if one happens not to have the latest version of the plugin installed (as it puts the cpu in to some sort of loop).

I've got 'em all blocked with Proxomitron, even the blue box "internet news" thingy with all the links is gone too so i don't need to scrool down half a page to read stuff, all i have when i visit this site is just what i want and nothing else... gotta love Proxomitron, allows you to tailer any site to add or remove anything you want... :)

yes good freeware program for ad removal.

Cant see the ad in the link though blank page :D anyhow I think I know which one it is as I had it appear on the VDR front once on an unpatched system.I thinks its java controlled if memory serves.

I'm all for using ad/popup blockers and such myself guys. But I guess the point I would make is that in a case like this having something like this simply "mask" an underlying problem. And since it is not necessarily so unusal that people coming here would not have the latest greatest flash plugin (since IE comes with V5 by default) proper viewing of the site pages really shouldn't be dependent on such a thing. Pages at a place like a VDR really should be as "browser friendly" as possible.

I think its down to an underlying fault in the flash coding if it produces an unintelligible response when viewed with a incorrect or corrupt plug in.

Yup, may be. But also it demonstrates somewhat sloppy page coding in that if there are dependencies (for the plug in) they are not being checked on the user's machine and either compensated for or the user given the options of updating the plugin.

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Originally posted by DrMDJ
OK, I was curious so....

For the record, the problematic ad is this one here

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This may sound a little odd and confusing. I see the ad in your link but I don't see it on Vdr but I do see it if I'm not logged in.

Hi I have this ad running now and I am waiting to use my computer, with task manager running always on top my cpu cycles are looping to 100% every 4-5 secs with this ad. Now I have the older version of flash, so I can live with it , however as usual I find myself agreeing with DrMDJ.