Strange....

[The enigma]

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:20 -0500, Scott Sweeny wrote:
> >  What's up, Scott.
> >
> >  I wasn't on the web at all. I happened to be using Mozilla Sunbird
> > calendar. I don't know if that had anything to do with that message box from
> > Netscape, or not. I wasn't directly trying to access the web. Really weird!
> > It's almost like they wanted to setup a file of some kind, on my machine to
> > send them error logs. (???)
> >  --
> > Rick D.
> 
> Hey Rick,
> A couple more questions:
> 1. Was Sunbird by any chance crashing or producing an error that you know of?
> 2. Have you ever had official (branded) Netscape software installed on
> that machine?
> 
> This sounds like some sort of crash recovery system.  If the dialog
> pops up again, maybe a screenshot or exact quote of the text could
> help too.  Or maybe if you could try and reproduce it intentionally.
> 
> ~Scott
> 

Scott,
You know, it's funny, there where no problems with Sunbird, I just
installed it and was playing with it's different calendar views,
printing each one as I changed them, when all of a sudden, this Netscape
dialog box pops up, ensuring my security, and if I'd like to participate
in some kind of error log sharing process. I could do everything, so
Linux didn't seem to crash but I couldn't print! I tried to click the
"x" to close the dialog box, however, it wouldn't close, I logged off/on
again and it popped up a few minutes later. I had to choose their "next"
button and choose "do not subscribe at this time" to close it down. It
was almost like a Windows spyware thing. I've never used any Netscape
product on my Linux box. It must have piggy backed on the Mozilla
Sunbird download package, Linux version. I've been working with
computers at various stages for about 20 years, but I'm new to Linux.
I'm slowly moving to Linux from Windows because of things like this.
(and many others)
-- 
~ Rick D.
  Evolution Email
  Live free or die.
     +Linux+