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re: action cancelled Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 8:36 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) Falcon's virus/malware cleanup routine Provide a link to the page please. Repair install WinXP Clean install WinXP [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: action cancelled Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 8:40 pm Posted by Sammi Tutu (2 messages posted) Thank you for responding, this is just one of many that this appears on.... http://www.yahoo.americangreetings.com/ Thank you and god bless :) Sammi [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: action cancelled Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 9:29 pm Posted by Deb (1462 messages posted) that ad is in macromedia flash. Maybe you need to install macromedia flash player. http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: action cancelled Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 10:43 pm Posted by joe (7018 messages posted) i see that all the time and still have not seen any type of reasoning or exact cause of it, it does have something to do with java scripting, at least in Firefox, with IE...I cant tell you....good luck as i seriously doubt you will get help here. Ive seen this asked numerous times....i really doubt that macromedia will produce anything but it is worth a shot. good luck. (if you find an answer that works, let us know...) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: action cancelled Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 1:26 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) That Action Canceled message, doesn't mean there's something wrong on your end. I get that message on some pages also, usually in place of ads. The ad IS blocked from being displayed, by something, whether a HOSTS file, or whatever, so that's good! Yahoo is notorious for ads. Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: action cancelled Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 6:33 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) Falcon's virus/malware cleanup routine My bet is the hosts file as I see ad.doubleclick.net flashing by in the status area. As someone else mentioned, this is not a bad thing but a good thing,. Less ads, less distraction, less annoyances. You can look at your hosts file to see what is in it but I wouldn't mess with it unless you understand what you're doing. It should be c:\windows\drivers\etc\hosts Repair install WinXP Clean install WinXP [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum