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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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Posted on Jul 14, 2015 9:47 PM

In the bottom of the frame I can see this: apple.com/library/test/success.html

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Jul 15, 2015 1:57 AM in response to Ocean 17

I contacted Apple sport via online chat support and they told me to install a certain malware detection software (which I did). I ran the malware detection and it didn't detect anything. So then the tech says I have to purchase continued support help for $29.99 or bring it in to a genius bar to have my mac looked at. WOW!!!!!

Jul 15, 2015 2:01 AM in response to Ocean 17

Same problem here on two macbook's..

Both running Mavericks... also for some reason wifi gets self assigned ip addres.. But still works as the ip is the ip given by DHCP server..

What seems to work for me at the moment i made a location " Home " and in this i set ip and dns static.. After i use instead Location Automatic to Home.

Jul 15, 2015 2:11 AM in response to Ocean 17

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Good luck & happy computing! 🙂

Jul 15, 2015 2:17 AM in response to j.7

It looks like a mess-up at Apple's end. For a start-off someone has pasted the code into a web page creation program as if it was content instead of into a code editor. I don't know whether this is why the page is suddenly appearing - it's affecting a lot of people on iOS and Mavericks though I don't see it on Snow Leopard (I did when I changed my Maverics iMac to use Wifi instead of Ethernet).


The page is apparently checked when a wifi connection is successful, but it shouldn't actually appear. Possibly the checking process expects to see the word 'Success' as the first text, which at present it isn't. It looks like something only Apple can sort out.

Jul 15, 2015 2:33 AM in response to Ocean 17

At home both imacs at the same time started showing this, after connecting and disconnecting..it happened about 2-3 hours ago and still does that. I am amazed how quickly I am reading in google about this problem. Ill keep up with it. I tried in both computers to disable the auto join, but didnt do. Reset the modem, didnt do either*(there you go, it just popped up again, freeeaaaakyyy!!!) Since it opens with everything else closed and in the two computers. Help! User uploaded file

Constant popup "join Wifi-network"

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