Ocean 17

Q: Constant popup "join Wifi-network"

I suddenly am interrupted every five minutes by a popup that says on the window frame "join (name of wifi network here)".

 

In the window is the message

 

"<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Success</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>Success</BODY></HTML>"

 

What is wrong with my wifi network that I get this?

 

How can I make it go away?

 

Thanks!

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 512 Gb SSD, 16 Gb RAM

Posted on Jul 14, 2015 9:39 PM

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  • by Wyrmfire,

    Wyrmfire Wyrmfire Jul 15, 2015 3:50 AM in response to RiNkY
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    Jul 15, 2015 3:50 AM in response to RiNkY

    My pleasure.

     

    No, I'm in Australia so can assure you its happening here and I've seen some other posts saying they're on the Verizon network, which is in the USA, so I'd say its world-wide.

     

    It just started happening to be earlier this evening as well.

  • by Mad-Jack,

    Mad-Jack Mad-Jack Jul 15, 2015 3:51 AM in response to RiNkY
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    Jul 15, 2015 3:51 AM in response to RiNkY

    Not just UK users, this appears to be global.

  • by Digimutant,

    Digimutant Digimutant Jul 15, 2015 3:51 AM in response to Digimutant
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    Jul 15, 2015 3:51 AM in response to Digimutant

    Just to update, it's not showing anymore which is weird. It kept popping up until it displayed the HTML properly and I clicked "Done", and now it doesn't pop up anymore.

  • by RiNkY,

    RiNkY RiNkY Jul 15, 2015 3:53 AM in response to Ocean 17
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    Jul 15, 2015 3:53 AM in response to Ocean 17

    Be interesting to hear from my Apple Expert friend who services all the Macs at a large US University, once he wakes up in California! See if he has a million calls from users about this problem too!

  • by Dutch Alex,

    Dutch Alex Dutch Alex Jul 15, 2015 4:00 AM in response to Ocean 17
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    Jul 15, 2015 4:00 AM in response to Ocean 17

    Seems to be solved on Apple's side.

    No popups here anymore

  • by RiNkY,

    RiNkY RiNkY Jul 15, 2015 4:00 AM in response to Digimutant
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    Jul 15, 2015 4:00 AM in response to Digimutant

    I renamed the file back to its original name and switched WiFi networks a few times and have yet to see the pop-up again in the last few mins either!  Maybe there's been a quiet fix to this issue.

  • by Rudi Horemans,

    Rudi Horemans Rudi Horemans Jul 15, 2015 4:01 AM in response to Dutch Alex
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    Jul 15, 2015 4:01 AM in response to Dutch Alex

    Same here. All's back to normal.

    Would appreciate it if some Apple technician explained what has happened.

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Jul 15, 2015 4:09 AM in response to Rudi Horemans
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    Jul 15, 2015 4:09 AM in response to Rudi Horemans

    Just tried switching to wifi on my iMac and this time I got no popup.

     

    The page at http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html has been rewritten and now displays simply the word 'Success'.

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Jul 15, 2015 4:14 AM in response to Rudi Horemans
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    Jul 15, 2015 4:14 AM in response to Rudi Horemans

    Rudi Horemans wrote:

     

    Same here. All's back to normal.

    Would appreciate it if some Apple technician explained what has happened.

    Somebody pasted the HTML code into the page in such a way that the tags - < and > - were replaced by the HTMl code for them - &lt; and &gt; - thus causing the code to be displayed rather than hidden as normal.

  • by raindoggy,

    raindoggy raindoggy Jul 15, 2015 4:16 AM in response to Ocean 17
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    Jul 15, 2015 4:16 AM in response to Ocean 17

    I got this starting tonight too.  I noticed in bottom right of this popup window a button saying "done". i clicked that.

    Next time it popped up the same button said "cancel". I pushed that and haven't had the popup for nearly an hour now.

    If i closed the window using the red cross it would be back within minutes.

    Hope this helps someone else.

  • by Rapha el123,

    Rapha el123 Rapha el123 Jul 15, 2015 4:19 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Jul 15, 2015 4:19 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    All okay with me too. A bit strange and I am glad that it is now sorted.

    However, a big thank you to all the contributors to this thread as it was really nice to know that this was a system problem that was affecting a lot of people and not just something weird on my set up. A super-big thank you to those who offered possible fixes.

  • by namipami,

    namipami namipami Jul 15, 2015 4:30 AM in response to Ocean 17
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    Jul 15, 2015 4:30 AM in response to Ocean 17

    this thing happened to me just this morning and i was desperately looking for a solution for this!

    i dont know how but this worked for me

    > open System Preference - Network - then delete ALL network list you have (including the network u use right now; you can see it on the left box, just click the "-" sign below) - then after that try to connect to your network or wifi you have at home again and see if something pops out again (mine stopped already. i restarted my macbook just to see if it really worked then yeahhh it worked. didnt have any pop outs or whatever)

  • by gabbe170,

    gabbe170 gabbe170 Jul 15, 2015 7:11 AM in response to Ocean 17
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    Jul 15, 2015 7:11 AM in response to Ocean 17

    This is probably not a virus; i managed to fix this on my sisters macbook air 11" 2014, by repairing disk permissions in disk utility. Since this morning she have had no problems with any pop-ups while connecting to our wifi at home.

     

    Regards, a newbie here on apple support, cheers

  • by nzmtnk,

    nzmtnk nzmtnk Jul 15, 2015 7:52 AM in response to Ocean 17
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    Jul 15, 2015 7:52 AM in response to Ocean 17

    same thing happened AT MY OFFICE / WiFi. it popped up like every 5 minutes and i felt like it won't stop.

    but now it looks like it won't do that no more AT MY HOUSE / WiFi.

     

    so i guess this caused not by virus nor Wifi/Ethernet thing. (but something like the way the computer

    connects to the internet, ISP thing maybe.)

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Jul 15, 2015 8:01 AM in response to nzmtnk
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    Jul 15, 2015 8:01 AM in response to nzmtnk

    It was a problem at Apple's end, and nothing to do with any virus or your computer.

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