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Why is my Safari acting up?

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BengalDuck

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Original poster
Oct 27, 2006
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I visit one of my regular sites recently and whenever I'd open a new page on that site, a file labeled z.php attempts to download. Every time I cancel it, but it is very annoying that my browsing is stopped because of this.

Is this spyware/adware from the site that doesn't work on my computer? The ads on the site trying to download something? Just safari acting up?

Thanks for any help I can get.
 
1. does clearing cache help?
2. does clearing cookies help?
3. is same thing happen to other browser like firefox or opera?
 
You're not accidentally holding apple down while clicking, are you? Can you link the site, please? I've seen this occasionally when sites somehow confuse the web browser into thinking that the php file is a download file and not something the browser should interpret, so it is possible that it's a server-side (coding) issue.
 
I'll PM you the site (it's not p0rn but it's still illegal).

This has happened to me before, and strangely it's only that site that does it right now.
 
Thanks -- I'm not sure there's anything wrong with it (well, I didn't surf that deep), legalitywise, but in any event, it seems to work fine for me.

Are you using any of these....

An ad blocking plugin? Could be a bad block filter you added
A custom usercontent.css file? Could be a syntactic error in it

Otherwise try using "reset safari" from the Safari menu (lose history, cache, cookies, but not favorites or preferences).
 
It actually is running that site fine now. I'm going to assume it was some of the advertisements on the website. It's happened before there periodically but it goes away.

Thanks for the help though.
 
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