Web Sites Using SiteMeter Are Crashing with Internet Explorer

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Web Sites Using SiteMeter Are Crashing with Internet Explorer
Wired News - 2 hours ago
By Kim Zetter August 02, 2008 | 4:23:19 AMCategories: Glitches and Bugs A number of web sites that use SiteMeter tracking code to monitor the number of ...

Attention Sitemeter Users: Your Site is Down
Mashable, CA - 3 hours ago
Because they use SiteMeter, a popular free traffic metrics utility. As of this moment, there hasn’t been any official statement from SiteMeter via their ...

SiteMeter causing blogs and websites to crash in Microsoft's ...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog, WA - 7 hours ago
Operation aborted That error message was caused by embedded code from SiteMeter, a tool for monitoring and analyzing website traffic. ...

Site Meter causing Internet Explorer failure
The Inquisitr, Australia - 4 hours ago
Traffic measuring tool Sitemeter is blocking users of Internet Explorer from accessing sites using the service. According to a tip to The Inquisitr, ...

[DB]

Another MS update?

[gunnyg]

I have been using SiteMeter on my many, many websites/blogs for many years now—I have never had one problem.

I do have IE but rarely use it, I also have Firefox, and Netscape which I use all the time.

Re the MS (Windows Update) problem of a few weeks ago....it screwed up this PC badly—I could not even restart the machine. Luckily a friend is employed in that field and he managed to get it going again—new harddrive.

[dennisw]

This update?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/07/10/nwindows110.xml

Your sites make not work for those who use Internet Explorer unless sitemeter code is stripped out-—Maybe

[threeoeight]

I just checked my sites that use sitemeter with IE and no problems????

[gunnyg]

dennisw:

Thank you for the heads up on this one—I made SiteMeter aware of the possible problems....

Your homepage @FR is first class! I like those flag pics!

Here’s another, screensaver....

http://i37.tinypic.com/2llh5z8.jpg

Semper Fidelis
Dick Gaines
~~~~~

[Da Coyote]

Microsoft of today is the GM of the 70’s and 80’s. Poor engineering based on out-of-date designs, sold to you with the home that the new chrome-plated plastic and vinyl roof will convince you that it’s a good product. Ditch it folks. There’s Apple and Linux out there to show you what actual quality is.

[mlizzy]

Thanks a million for posting this. ALL our sites are crashing (I can access them via Mozilla Firefox though) and I thought it was the server, but all our sites have SiteMeter. I’m in the process of taking out the SiteMeter code. Thanks again soooooo much!

[dennisw]

Thanks a million for posting this. ALL our sites are crashing (I can access them via Mozilla Firefox though) and I thought it was the server, but all our sites have SiteMeter. I’m in the process of taking out the SiteMeter code. Thanks again soooooo much!

Welcome!
All yesterday I had to access sitemeter sites with Firefox

Lots of sites and blogs seem fixed today. Maybe the big blog hosts fixed it globally for their users

[EBH]

Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog.
Operation aborted

I have seen this message a lot, before today!

[dennisw]

Thanks for the screen saver. I have to clean up my freep homepage. It’s a bit messy. Glad you like the flags there!

[js1138]

This is a sitemeter problem. The fact that Firefox appears to be unaffected may be related to the fact that Firefox developed the code for sitemeter.

But the code doesn’t run on Firefox either. I just doesn’t block loading the site.

Sitemeter is and ad server. You can remove the problem permanently by going to Tools/Security/Restricted Zone and adding *.sitemeter.com to the sites list.

While you are at it you can add other ad servers, such as *.doubleclick.net.

[autumnraine]

This must be the problem we were talking about last night with Michelle Malkin’s site and others.

[EBH]

I have sitemeter on one of my sites too. I’ve been able to get in it just fine? I can’t get on sitemeter itself though! LOL.

[Bahbah]

I just checked my sites that use sitemeter with IE and no problems????

Interesting. I can get into all of the sites I frequent with FireFox buy get the abort message with IE.

[Mark was here]

Ahh .... so now I know why Hotair would load, then crash. And I thought it was just going to be one of life's mysteries.

[js1138]

Interesting that everyone on the net is talking about this except the people who caused the problem. Sitemeter is MIA.

Even if it’s an IE bug, who the hell releases code that doesn’t work on 70% of the browsers in use, and crashes thousands of unsuspecting sites?

There is an upside to this. I’ve learned to permanently block sitemeter and other ad servers.

[fernwood]

Many websites are stripping sitemeter, but if you go to sitemeter.com you will get the error. Evidently sitemter cahnged code and mad a conflict with IE.

In order to access websites I went into Tools and made sitemer a restricted site so now I can go to web sites even if they have not stripped off sitemeter and see them.

[Traveler59]

You can remove the problem permanently by going to Tools/Security/Restricted Zone and adding *.sitemeter.com to the sites list.

Worked like a charm, thanks for the tip. Just to add, it's Tools/Internet Options/Security/Restricted Sites/Sites (IE 7), but you knew that already ;).

- Traveler

[Gideon7]

To fix in IE7: Click on the menu Tools -> Internet Options. Click on the tab Security. Click on the icon Restricted Sites. Click on the button Sites. Type the text '*.sitemeter.com' (without quotes). Click the Add button.

That will fix the problem on the client side.

Technically this is not a IE7 bug, but rather a problem on the server side. The web page author wrongly embedded a tag for <SCRIPT HREF="http://foo.sitemeter.com/foo.js" > inside a block element (such as <TABLE>). That's a no-no per the standard and results in undefined behavior.

To fix on the server side the web admin needs to move the script tag from inside the table down to the bottom of the HTML, just before the </BODY> tag.

Undefined behavior is, well, undefined. Anything can happen. Microsoft cannot be accused of standards non-compliance in this case. On the other hand you can make an argument that IE7 should be follow Postel's Law better like the other browsers seem to do.

[Seruzawa]

Microsoft is using the general public as its beta testers again. What’s new?

[Tolkien]

Sure enough. I use Firefox so I wasn't aware of this. I tried to reach my site with IE and it aborted.

I contacted sitemeter as well and gave them a little time to fix this.

[Paladin2]

Is IE7 standards compliant?

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Thanks for the report!

All my websites and blogs are now officially Sitemeter free!

[TheNewPundit]

Someone emailed me about this issue this morning. My site was working fine in firefox, so if I had not been emailed, I would not have knowns.
When I used IE, I got a popup with an error message. I took out sitemeter, and it worked fine.

Thanks for getting the word out.

[politicalwit]

Is there any particular reason you utilized Sitemeter on your website?

[Condor51]

**Re the MS (Windows Update) problem of a few weeks ago....it screwed up this PC badly—I could not even restart the machine. Luckily a friend is employed in that field and he managed to get it going again—new harddrive.**

Was that SP3 for Win XP?
If so, I STILL have a crashed pc, my new one (14 months old). It 'supposedly' only affected pc's w/ AMD Platforms which I have. One stupid file meant for Intel chips causes the whole problem, 'INTELPPM.SYS'

But there's an easier fix than a new HD. An XP Installation Disk that has 'Recovery Console' on it (natch my pc didn't come with that, most OEM XP installed pc's don't). With that you don't lose your HD info, files and programs. It allows you to just fix the OS. I finally got a copy (MS Tech said borrow one from anyone) and am calling MS today to walk me through the fix. (all I have to do is get in the dang Registry and change ONE numeral on a file)

So right now I'm on my old pc with Win ME and its unstable as heck. I never know what'll happen on a reboot so I have to leave this *thing* running 24/7.

[VermiciousKnid]

Thank heavens! I thought it was just my computer, until I went downstairs and used the desktop...and got the very same “Internet Explorer...Operation Aborted” message.

I have never seen this one before.

Anybody know how to fix it or is this something from outside?

Regards,

[SnarlinCubBear]

I’ve noticed that when I go to photobucket.com, it MAY bring down my laptop - closing all open windows.

Anyone else having that problem? and what could it be causing it?

[bobsunshine]

If you have IE 7, the following fix worked for me, basically restricting sitemeter (H/T Gateway Pundit).

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If you're suffering these problems in IE7, add “*.sitemeter.com” to your list of restricted sites. That will force IE to reject the bad code. I was having the same problems and now they're gone.

Procedure:

1. Open menu item: Tools...Internet Options
2. Click “Security” tab
3. Select “Restricted Sites”
4. Click “Sites” button
5. Under “Add this website to this zone”, enter “*.sitemeter.com” without the quotes but with *
6. Click “Add” button
7. Close windows using “Close” or “OK”, not “Cancel”.

After that, and without a restart, Sitemeter’s thwartage is thwarted!

[gunnyg]

Re
“Was that SP3 for Win XP?”

Yep—we got a new harddrive from amazon.com and it was screwed up/errors immediately, so amazon.com got it back immediately—unbelievable how amazon sent it bouncing around in a cardboard box w/no packing that would do any good.

So, my techie (I just don’t grok this cyber gobblygook) just used an old used harddrive, plus reinstalled my old hardrive (unconnected in the tower as an alternate backup)—so far working fine. I hate the thought of downloading windows updates again!

[VermiciousKnid]

THANK YOU! Worked like a charm.

Regards,

[Gideon7]

Microsoft says this is a bug per KB927917. Reported back in October 2007. Affects IE 5.5, 6, and 7. Fixed in IE8.

[mlo]

Re the MS (Windows Update) problem of a few weeks ago....it screwed up this PC badly—I could not even restart the machine. Luckily a friend is employed in that field and he managed to get it going again—new harddrive.

You know, that really doesn't make any sense. A software update problem isn't solved by buying a new hard drive. It's solved by fixing the software. Even if it came to needing a re-install, you'd do that on the existing drive. The update didn't break the drive.

It sounds like your friend knew how to install a new drive so he made that peg fit the hole. I'd suggest going to someone else in the future.

[Paladin2]

"this is a bug"

Or maybe a feature? Sometimes it's tough to tell the difference. ;-)

[Condor51]

*** I hate the thought of downloading windows updates again! ***

Yep and turn off your MS auto-update function. That was one of the first things my pc manufacturer Tech guy (Systemax, made in USA) told me when I first called them.

But his solution for the fix wasn't optimal. He told me to do a new install of the OEM XP. That would get it back to how it shipped from the factory with SP2 but I'd lose everything else.

But luckily MS knows their update caused this problem with AMD pc's so their tech support is free for this fix. And I don't lose anything with their method. Now I just have to find the time to call them today.