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sc.aspx file keeps downloading, why and how to stop it?

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davidwarren

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Aug 28, 2007
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What is this and how can I make it stop???

There seems to be no rhyme or reason for it, they just download from safari.
 
Have you tried restarting Safari? Do the items appear in your Downloads window in Safari? Are they being saved to your hard drive?
 
yes to all. I just installed and removed growl and growlsafari and whatever the itunes one was if that helps. But it still downloads into the download file.
 
David, the same thing is happening to me.

It seems to have something to do with Citrix, which I use for work. Do you have the Citrix Xen App installed?
 
xratedg35 said:
David, the same thing is happening to me.

It seems to have something to do with Citrix, which I use for work. Do you have the Citrix Xen App installed?
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Yes. That is the default program to open the file, but is not related to any citrix activity on my part.
 
Do they download when visiting a specific site? A poorly-configured server may cause pages to be downloaded rather than displayed.

If you open the file in TextEdit, what do you see?
 
Search your hard drive for any file with contextweb in it. You may find a preference file that may assist you.

In Terminal you can use:

Code: 
sudo find / -type f -exec grep -i -l contextweb {} \;

That will print out a listing of any file containing contextweb in it. It's a case-insensitive search as well.
 
BlueRevolution said:
Do they download when visiting a specific site? A poorly-configured server may cause pages to be downloaded rather than displayed.

If you open the file in TextEdit, what do you see?
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mine in just on e46fanatics.com, whenever I change pages.
 
just tried at my computer at home and I'm getting the same thing, so it's likely not related to growl, I guess it's a website issue....
 
belvdr said:
Search your hard drive for any file with contextweb in it. You may find a preference file that may assist you.

In Terminal you can use:

Code: 
sudo find / -type f -exec grep -i -l contextweb {} \;

That will print out a listing of any file containing contextweb in it. It's a case-insensitive search as well.
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nothing for either search..
 
I just started getting this today, too. My guess is that contextweb has some bad code that is dropping this file. If I stay away from my cheesy gossip site, then it doesn't happen.

And I not only use Citrix, I work for them, so this is very odd.
 
David - BTW, good choice in cars. I obviously went the infiniti route, hence my name, but that conversation is for another forum.

I've noticed that, randomly, when I view facebook photos, the file would download.
 
Two choices I can see:

1. Edit /etc/hosts and add tag.contextweb.com to point to 127.0.0.1
2. Use Firefox, install Adblock Plus, and block http://*.contextweb.com/*

I'd use choice # 2 personally.
 
ok, I blocked it on openDNS and I don't get the downloads any longer, so give that a try.
 
I ran into this yesterday while visiting several websites. I suspected that it had to do with a banner ad (new banner ad for MS Windows 7 seemed be present on every website that generated the sc.aspx file). I don't know for sure that that was the culprit, but I downloaded an adblocker for Safari, and I haven't had any of those sc.aspx files coming through since I did it.

Safari Adblock is the software I installed. Maybe a coincidence that I did this and then the sc.aspx problem went away, but it worked for me
 
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