Those who use 4np.us counters for their shop/userlookups/pet lookup/etc. should
remove them IMMEDIATLY.
4np has placed a pop-up asking for the username/password. I think that form is for the 4np username/password, but TNT
WILL see this as "scamming for username/password" and will likely freeze anyone who has the pop-up
Thank you kage. this was such crap on neohero's part.
Have you, by any chance, actually read the message? It says you need to change your shop counter code because of the new layout. I guess it was their way of letting shopkeepers know about it, but it was a poor decision on their part to use something that asks for username/password. A better solution would've been to just make the old code not work, try to notify people, and put something about it on their site.
I'm never gonna use those counters again.
You never know if someone could abuse it and get a ton of ppl iced...
The sad thing is, I don't think most people are going to read that pop-up message if they come across it. Odds are, they'll either freak out, close the window, and post messages on the boards screaming "So-and-so's shop has a CGer!!!", or enter their username and password. I know I'd probably get scared at least momentarily if I saw a message like that, and probably report the page I came across it on (with the explanation that the page had malfunctioning code, not that the user was a scammer). Then again, I also report shops with layouts that make it impossible to buy anything, in the hopes that TNT will just clear the shop description (and, therefore, the layout) without actually punishing the shop owner.
I know what it says Spaz, but did the code REALLY need to create a pop-up? Especially one that asks for a username/password? They had good intentions, but just weren't thinking..
This may be a long shot, but perhaps he copy and pasted the code from somewhere else and didn't know how to remove the user/pass boxes from it?
I know that if I personally came across that in a shop I wouldn't bother reading it. I would X out or cancel so fast, report the shop, change my word clear cookies the whole thing faster than anything. I would have definitely panicked.
This may be a long shot, but perhaps he copy and pasted the code from somewhere else and didn't know how to remove the user/pass boxes from it?
You can't remove user/pass from it. It's an http auth request. There is no way for them to do a plain alert box; how they did it is using something (http authentication) for something it wasn't intended for (displaying a message).