Console popping up when commenting: WSN Support

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Console popping up when commenting

Starship-Trooper
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Posted 11/06/07 - 03:23 PM:	#1
When I submit a link-comment, just for a millisecond or so, a small Console or DOS-like window pops up before WSN tells me that the comment has been created. I have this in my new wsn-version, but never recognized it before. anyhow, what is that and how can i get rid of it? I bet people don't like small console boxes popping up when surfing a foreign site.. ;]

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Posted 11/07/07 - 09:52 AM:	#2
Must be something on your computer, spyware I suppose.
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Posted 11/07/07 - 03:33 PM:	#3
I just made another test. It pops up while submitting a comment, tested in opera, IE, and firefox. here's a screenshot, it's the windows cmd.exe Please could u check again if there is sth that gets called.. I guess you can't see it on another OS, and on my system it appears only very very short, was quite hard to get a screenshot to see what it was.. -and: definitely it did not appear in V4.0.30, I would have recognized it Edited by Starship-Trooper on 11/07/07 - 03:36 PM

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Posted 11/08/07 - 01:31 AM:	#4
Hello Starship-Trooper, If it's a local pc installation can it the script trying to send emails notifications that can not do from your local pc ?

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Posted 11/08/07 - 03:14 AM:	#5
Hi. hmm, I'm afraid no. Writing a comment won't send any emails as far as I can remember. And on other templates which try to send emails (e.g. report), such a console doesn't pop up. Additionally, I never recognized such ting in earlier installs of wsn. Anyhow, maybe somebody else can recognize this?

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Posted 11/08/07 - 09:56 AM:	#6
Perhaps if you're using a version of windows like XP which has been lobotomized in order to sell the server editions of the OS it may be brain-dead enough to pop open a console every time an OS command is called. Anyhow, presuming you run your real site on a real server it's a non-issue. Edited by Paul on 11/08/07 - 10:03 AM
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Posted 11/08/07 - 10:38 AM:	#7
ok. yes I use brain-dead M$ XP but this incident, suddenly happening, will stay a mysterium to me

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Posted 11/09/07 - 01:25 PM:	#8
Because a shell call was added involved in comment posting.
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Posted 11/12/07 - 01:22 AM:	#9
ah ok I understand. Calling a shell when posting, could that be problematic in any imaginable way, or is this method often used in forums and secure/stable?

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Posted 11/12/07 - 07:10 PM:	#10
It's very normal. Just the php function shell_exec. Not available on some shared hosting setups, so it's only called if available.
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