"We were unable to save your preferecens..." (sic)

[smatda]

I'm seeing the same message on a Mac OSX box running Firefox.

I'm NOT seeing it on any of my Winboxes running the same browser while
viewing the same page....therefore, I'm concluding it's something
computer specific...I haven't applied the latest updates on the Windows
box. I'm going to see if that makes a difference.


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[aninfinityofmonkeys@gmail.com]

On Aug 13, 9:38*pm, Jack <j...@beanstalk.com> wrote:
> After visiting the MegaMillions website (coincidence?), I kept getting a
> small popup window with a title bar that said "Windows Internet Explorer"
> and the exact message:
>
> We were unable to save your preferecens. Please try again
>
> The misspelled word and lack of period in the 2nd sentence don't look like
> a professional app. It came up randomly but seemed to be related to closing
> IE7 tabs. I don't recall setting any website preferences and it came up at
> least once after I closed/restarted IE7. I am running Windows Vista.
>
> What might this be?


Seeing the same thing here on IE7, WinXP, but only when visiting
Yahoo! News. I've never visited MegaMillions.

[silversj]

It is likely that Yahoo has multiple servers of which only some or one
is infected. Therefore, whether you see it depends on which server your
page request is routed to.


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[jeanne.ebiri@gmail.com]

On Aug 14, 12:35*pm, aninfinityofmonk...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Aug 13, 9:38*pm, Jack <j...@beanstalk.com> wrote:
>
> > After visiting the MegaMillions website (coincidence?), I kept getting a
> > small popup window with a title bar that said "Windows Internet Explorer"
> > and the exact message:
>
> > We were unable to save your preferecens. Please try again
>
> > The misspelled word and lack of period in the 2nd sentence don't look like
> > a professional app. It came up randomly but seemed to be related to closing
> > IE7 tabs. I don't recall setting any website preferences and it came upat
> > least once after I closed/restarted IE7. I am running Windows Vista.
>
> > What might this be?
>
> Seeing the same thing here on IE7, WinXP, but only when visiting
> Yahoo! News. I've never visited MegaMillions.

I am getting this text in a box opening on my computer too (an old
thing, a desktop of my husband's I have to use b/c my laptop is in the
shop) but only when I open mail in Yahoo. I did look in Yahoo news
yesterday and today.

[Howard Leighty]

The same message pop-up is newly occurring here today in an
otherwise previously very stable and clean Windows 2000 Pro
system using IE6. See http://fsnowinc.com/Unable.gif for
the browser details. This was not happening yesterday.



<jeanne.ebiri@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Aug 14, 12:35 pm, aninfinityofmonk...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Aug 13, 9:38 pm, Jack <j...@beanstalk.com> wrote:
>
> > After visiting the MegaMillions website (coincidence?), I kept getting a
> > small popup window with a title bar that said "Windows Internet
Explorer"
> > and the exact message:
>
> > We were unable to save your preferecens. Please try again
>
> > The misspelled word and lack of period in the 2nd sentence don't look
like
> > a professional app. It came up randomly but seemed to be related to
closing
> > IE7 tabs. I don't recall setting any website preferences and it came up
at
> > least once after I closed/restarted IE7. I am running Windows Vista.
>
> > What might this be?
>
> Seeing the same thing here on IE7, WinXP, but only when visiting
> Yahoo! News. I've never visited MegaMillions.

I am getting this text in a box opening on my computer too (an old
thing, a desktop of my husband's I have to use b/c my laptop is in the
shop) but only when I open mail in Yahoo. I did look in Yahoo news
yesterday and today.

[silversj]

The choice of which server you get to might be based, in part, on your
IP address. That could make it never happen on some machines. Also, the
page served may vary based on browser type to account for differences
from one browser to another.


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[figfuggo]

Still happening; I was right not to believe that Anti-bot made a
difference, coz it didn't.


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[AllenKitchen]

Message appears consistently when following several (but not all) links
on my personalized "my.yahoo.com" page - but not during load of initial
content; appears during / after load of some of the advertisement
content. Expect Yahoo to be looking into this - guessing that some
malware-planting attempt has been in play.


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[jsnprc@gmail.com]

I've had repeated instances of this message today when opening Yahoo
News stories in new tabs in Firefox3 on an XP Tablet PC.

[Howard Leighty]

<jsnprc@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've had repeated instances of this message today when opening Yahoo
> News stories in new tabs in Firefox3 on an XP Tablet PC.

Yes, this message has appeared for me inconconsistently (not every time)
when opening News stories in Yahoo news. Since it occurs in multiple
browsers (IE6, IE7 and Firefox3) then it is clearly not specific to any one
browser. The pop-up message looks like a system message, but this is very
doubtful due to the mis-spelled word. Even Micro$oft would not make that
blunder.