If this is in your sig: xivpads.com please remove it.

What the title says.

I don't know about anyone else, but for posts that contain http://www.xivpads.com/whatevernamehere I get this stupid pop-up box asking for a user name and password...

Let me make it clear, I'm not clicking the link, the forum page is bringing up the site log-in automatically.

This seems to be a problem with XIVpads as well, as I cannot get to the site's front page without user info.


*EDIT* Just tried another browser and cleared my cache out; the problem persists. =\

*EDIT #2*
Response from the Community Management Team:

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Greetings,

Until this issue is addressed, please note that our GM team may remove signatures that point to the above domain until the problem has been resolved.
Once the issue is fixed, you can add your signature back once more.

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*EDIT #3*

Seems the problem originating from XIVpads has been resolved:

Quote:

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Originally Posted by neminis

This was resolved, we had some problems with the authentication.
Cheers

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Without calling anyone out on this, I have seen a few people with this in their sigs, and it's INCREDIBLY annoying every page I click on the box pops up. If they don't remove them manually, I would like to request one of the mods do it.

I'm just curious, which browser are you guys using? I use Chrome and I've never had this happen. I don't use any of those sigs, but I've never personally had an issue with them.

april fools...!?...we can only hope lol.
i just got the pop ups too but it just started happening today. xox

I just got the popup as well when checking out the red mage concept art thread.

I'm using firefox at the moment.

Now people know why they didn't want us to have active links in our sigs..and it is the people with actual links, not just the image.

Just tested on the rdm thread and yeah I get the pop-up on firefox. That's a bit worrying..

yup , same here ,looks like its from the screenshots rather than sigs ?

XIVPads is currently dead... site crash or something, dunno...

The pop-up also shows up on the first page of the EU event here and as far as i can see no one has an xivpads signature or images linked there.

DID SOMEONE SAY SIGNATURES??!?

http://nxa.pw/sig

http://sigs.enjin.com/sig-ffxivarr/c170839185d0d53f.png

very weird.

Oh thank god i couldnt find any info on this and i was worried xiv pads was trying to key log me or something. So annoying

Hide sig. Problem solved. Did that my first day here.

That's just an HTTP authentication pop-up to xivpads. They password protected something the signature causes browser to access, but can't without the login credentials. Chrome doesn't get the pop-up.

It is not a scam attempt, but can easily be seen as such, given the curcumstances.

If I had to guess, their site is borked(via April 1st or otherwise) so that the asset paths for the images is in a restricted part of the site. To be on the safe side though, you can use adblock to nuke it with this filter: |http://xivpads.com/*

Greetings,

Until this issue is addressed, please note that our GM team may remove signatures that point to the above domain until the problem has been resolved.
Once the issue is fixed, you can add your signature back once more.

If you are using Firefox, use RIP (remove it permanently). Used this trick for the WoW/Diablo forums when people would post malicious script. You can right click it, then RIP it from all pages.

This was resolved, we had some problems with the authentication.
Cheers

Any signature code that has the potential to allow popups on this forum of any kind should be banned instantly as it could be used as a way for 'hackers' to steal NCsoft log in info. Whatever feature of the forum software that allows this should be disabled.

pads is back up anyways so. /thread

Who cares.