Standby mode caused by link

[Potato]

I went to utc, clicked a link to their news forum, and my computer went into Standby mode. I wasn't logged in so it was on their ugly default skin for the forums, and every one had a little lock on it, indicating that it was closed. I thought that was weird.

I tried it again, logged in this time first... and it worked fine. But now I'm scared to browse there.

What would make a link like that cause my computer to go into Standby mode??

[method77]

did you restart?

[zaphodiv]

Correlation is not causation.

Is it a laptop? They somtimes go into standby when they get too hot.

[Potato]

Correlation is not causation.

Is it a laptop? They somtimes go into standby when they get too hot.

That could be it. It's an hp pavilion ze1210.... nice little laptop. Thanks.

[tidal]

I wonder if it is possible to code a hyperlink to cause a computer to go into standby mode...imagine the possibilities to piss off people you don't like mwhahaha :wings

[rctempire]

That would be very funny

[Wolfie]

And quite annoying too.

[isus]

and yet another security flaw of microsoft... and to think an unnamed bank had to pull a bunch of atm's running windows xp bc they got infected by welchia and needed to be patched.

*sigh*

[tidal]

leave it to m$ to create the next generation of security holes :D

[crackerjacker]

potato it might be a bug . are u using internet explorer by any chance?
ie has the worse vulernabilities etc, and i still use it, but hmm try a different browser, or disable java scripting and see what happens.
k
:)

[Potato]

I use Firebird. This was the only time it happened.