Vowels not showing up in topic headings

[Vinylman]

I am running on a Mac Pro laptop, and this morning while responding to an email with a link to "RivalArt" web site, something really strange began.
When ever I try to go to a web search, or website, my browser drops many of the vowels from the request, and I start getting weird results. Some times, the web site will crash, or be redirected.
Here on Signs 101, The headings for threads have missing vowels.

Can anyone help me figure this out?

I am writing THIS request from a different Mac computer that as yet has not been corrupted, or changed. On THIS Mac, I have NOT opened the email mentioned above, nor have I gone to the link in that earlier email.

Do you think the link in the earlier email may have had a "Trogan Horse" attached?

Has this happened to anyone else?

How can this be corrected?

Thank You for any help.

 

[mopar691]

That is a common found mac trogan/virus.

I have seen it a few times

I will see if I can find the solution, I dont remember off hand

I believe its called Trojan.MacOS.Nvp

 

[Vinylman]

That is a common found mac trogan/virus.

I have seen it a few times

I will see if I can find the solution, I dont remember off hand

Mopar:

Thanks for the comeback.

I think I have found the answer.

I got an email with a bad link that put an add on into my Firefox extensions folder. The item is called "addonmanager". by removing this from my extensions folder in Firefox the problem is resolved.

Evidently this was some kind of stupid April fools trick that sends you to Rick Rolls uTube, and also places the fictitious add on into the extensions folder.

Hope this helps others.

 

[CheapVehicleWrap]

A virus on a Mac? Come on. Truth is criminals have finally caught on that people were paying good money for vowels and have decided to sell them on the black market. Possession is already illegal in Jersey.

 

[round man]

Macs are top of the list for malicious attacks right now. With half the populace owning an apple device there is no longer the statistical chance of not getting hacked and or not being a target of malware/virus and nonexistance of security vulnerabilities that were prevalent in the past,...get used to it mac users you no longer have that security just because you use a mac,....hackers are writing code daily to break into your network and devices because of the new iphone and ipad popularity ...you now have a bullseye sewn on your butt just like the rest of us in computerland,....

 

[Replicator]

Pat . . . I'd like to buy a VOWEL :LOL:

 

[CheapVehicleWrap]

Macs are top of the list for malicious attacks right now. With half the populace owning an apple device there is no longer the statistical chance of not getting hacked and or not being a target of malware/virus and nonexistance of security vulnerabilities that were prevalent in the past,...get used to it mac users you no longer have that security just because you use a mac,....hackers are writing code daily to break into your network and devices because of the new iphone and ipad popularity ...you now have a bullseye sewn on your butt just like the rest of us in computerland,....

It's been a quarter century since I owned an Apple. Guess it may be time.

 

[S'N'S]

In a speech to investors in February 2009, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft presented a slide based on Microsoft's research; while it showed no figures, the pie chart depicted Linux and Apple as each having roughly 5–6% of home and business PCs.
Apple's PC market share in US as 10.7%, worldwide market share is not listed, because it is not in top 5, and is inferred to be 5% or lower.

So why would hackers bother wasting there time? I'm not bashing Mac's, but there's just not enough of them around.

 

[GAC05]

In a speech to investors in February 2009, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft presented a slide based on Microsoft's research; while it showed no figures, the pie chart depicted Linux and Apple as each having roughly 5–6% of home and business PCs.
Apple's PC market share in US as 10.7%, worldwide market share is not listed, because it is not in top 5, and is inferred to be 5% or lower.

So why would hackers bother wasting there time? I'm not bashing Mac's, but there's just not enough of them around.

Maybe someone hacked Microsoft's pie charts.....

Web slang and abbreviations on the net have reduced the use of vowels by at least 75% (see pie chart) so less are being produced these days.

wayne k
guam usa

 

[Vinylman]

Maybe someone hacked Microsoft's pie charts.....

Web slang and abbreviations on the net have reduced the use of vowels by at least 75% (see pie chart) so less are being produced these days.

wayne k
guam usa

Wayne:
If that is true, then perhaps we here on Signs101 could be ahead of a new wave of techno speculators.

What would happen if we set up a new Options Market where we could sell futures on vowels.

Each vowel could be in a separate sub category, and as each vowel becomes more or less useful its value would rise or fall in direct relationship to its current or future need in the world market.

I have 23,000 "A's", and have shorted them with a spread over 14,500 "I's", with 1,300,750 "E's" long with a June 2013 delivery call.

 

[CheapVehicleWrap]

Vowels are just like pockets. A fad.

 

[Custom_Grafx]

Extract from Page 47 of the iTunes and Terms of Service;

"on April fool's day, customers who have not spent more than $300 per day for the entirety of their apple relationship in the app store shall forfeit the use of vowels on all associated devices. This includes keyboards, touch screens, and display devices. Should you wish to regain functionality of your vowels, please contact customer care".

 

[Gino]

Call Vanna..............

 

[round man]

S'N'S with the growing number of Iphones and Ipads out there and the number of folks who believe they don't need security on these devices it makes for a whole new exponentially greater number of targets for hackers,...most of these people tend to have more money as the devices are not cheap when you factor in the subscription rates to keep them connected. Alot of those same people have the same attitude as you and do not turn their bluetooth off and or do not run any virus or malware protection programs so that makes them easy prey,...with the right software one can go into the right coffee house and or any public wi-fi hot spot and get tons of personal information off the airwaves with the right software just because the folks who use a certain brand of device think they are not affected when in fact the opposite is true. these folks are the primary target of identity theives and hackers trying to rip off credit card info.

 

[ThinkRight]

Extract from Page 47 of the iTunes and Terms of Service;

"on April fool's day, customers who have not spent more than $300 per day for the entirety of their apple relationship in the app store shall forfeit the use of vowels on all associated devices. This includes keyboards, touch screens, and display devices. Should you wish to regain functionality of your vowels, please contact customer care".

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/south-park-parodies-itunes-terms-and-conditions/10043

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e01-humancentipad

Is this what you mean ?

 

[omgsideburns]

april fools?