Filters getting deleted

marczi · Post by **marczi** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:42 pm

OK. Then I stay with RC1 and will use this debug version for a few months. Thanks for your efforts.

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:04 pm

Thanks, I hope that helps finding out what goes on. Btw, the latest report on this issue was about Firefox 2.0 RC1.

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:13 am

Wladimir Palant wrote:(c:\adblockplus.log on Windows or /adblockplus.log on *ix, you might need to give Firefox write permissions)

This isn't a very useful comment, but Why not put it in your profile (you've got that whole 'adblockplus' directory with just patterns*.ini in it) or at least a temp directory or something?

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:34 pm

Because the logging starts before profile is available or even selected. I would put it into the user's home directory but I'm not sure %HOME% always has a meaningful value on Windows (or rather - I'm pretty sure it doesn't).

marczi · Post by **marczi** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:54 pm

Although, %HOME% has no default value on Windows, but %USERPROFILE% always points to the home directory of the current Windows user, example: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:17 pm

I'm not really using environment variables but rather Gecko's directory service. And there is some documentation saying that the value for "Home" is bound to the HOME environment variable, though this might be worth testing.

Morrigan · Post by **Morrigan** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:34 pm

Same thing happend to me again yesterday. all my filtersets and subscribtions gone.

Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Mac OS X 10.4.7

Extentions:

Downthemall 0.9.9.7
Unplug 1.4.1
Bugmenot 1.3
Adblock plus 0.7.1.2

i have been thinking. could it be some sort of hostile script that "nukes' the filtersets of ablock plus?

because ive seen some sites that can detect if a user has adblocking software enabled. so maybe some ad company found an exploit?

ive installed NoScript to see if the filter deleting stops. [/list]

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:49 pm

No, I don't think we have any security hole in the extensions, so the web sites shouldn't have an influence on this. If you want to help me fix this problem - please follow the instructions in http://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6767#6767

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 6:42 pm

Morrigan wrote:... ive seen some sites that can detect if a user has adblocking software enabled. so maybe some ad company found an exploit?

They aren't actually detecting that Adblock Plus is installed, they're just detecting that the ad elements are not present or are invisible.

(Yeah, yeah, replying to a week-old post, but I haven't checked the forum in a while.)

R 2 da I 2 da C 2 Da O · Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:28 pm

Ugh....Im at school and i cant break the firewall.....WTF????????