I received this message on my desktop a couple hours ago:

"A script in this movie is causing Macromedia Flash Player 8 to run slowly. If it continues, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script? [Yes] [No]"

The thing is, I wasn’t watching a movie, nor have I accessed any movie files during my current boot session. Nor (to my knowledge) have I accessed any sites that use Flash Player.

The “X” (close) on the message was disabled, so rather than answering “no” I just left the message there, ignoring it until I’m ready to shut down. The message reoccurred 3 more times, then suddenly 6 more times within a few seconds, then not again since for over an hour.

Do you know of any viruses with this behavior? My Norton Antivirus didn’t detect anything. I did have a P2P session open for a few minutes before I received the first message but never transfered anything.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: RoverRoad,

It could be a scripting error in the program causing this.
But to eliminate the Message if this is so try this
Open Internet Explorer by right clicking on the Icon then selecting Properties
Then click on the Advanced Tab (on the next screen)
Next look down the List with tick boxes Under Browsing and near the top (6th item down) you'll see an entry called "Display a notification about every script error"
Untick this then scroll down to the bottom of the list click on the "Apply" then the "OK" buttons to save and close the pages
Now see if that That message comes up? If it still does then its a bad file

I'm using windows 2k, so the option that you wanted me to enable was under Tools | Internet Options. It was unchecked so I enabled it. I will let you know what I find out.