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,
Go into [Hard Drive] -> System -> Library -> CoreServices
Find "Captive Network Assistant" and rename it to "XCaptive Network Assistant".
Voila! No longer a problem.
This is at least a temporary fix to resolve the issue until Apple fixes the problem at their end (who knows how long that is going to take).
In terms of overall impact, it will only affect people on corporate networks or airports that need to input corporate usernames/passwords. If you're just connecting to your wireless at home it won't have any impact.
This is one of the reasons I suggest also not "deleting" the file and instead "renaming" it to get it out of the way, temporarily whilst Apple fix the issue so you can then rename it again after they fix what they need to.
At least it won't get in your way every five minutes whilst trying to surf the net.
Anyway, hopefully that helps everyone.
Regards,
Wyrmfire
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.
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! 🙂
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 - < and > - thus causing the code to be displayed rather than hidden as normal.
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.
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.)
Perhaps some of the reason it was brought to the proper attention of Apple was due to those
who used Apple Feedback to communicate the issue directly to Apple website personnel...
Hopefully whatever oversight or error behind this odd issue won't repeat again soon.
Or if it does, the temporary cure by Wyrmfire may be re-applied yet again?! 😎
I have been having this same issue for a year now. Using a MacBook Pro OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 (as of this post), and this problem has persisted through updating from Mavericks. The problem was never fixed and doubt it was ever actually addressed by Apple. The only hack listed in this thread isn't ideal if you're using a computer for work on a corporate network that requires a corporate login. I assume that updating the OS to El Capitan won't necessarily fix the issue, either. At most, it might fix the issue but will probably screw something else up.
Is anyone else still having this stupid pop-up box show when connecting to a network?
Me too.
OS X (10.9.5)
I have the same problem. Anyone has a solution?
This started after I updated my iPhone 6 Plus apps Twitter, Instagram, and Kindle.
My iPhone connects to WiFi.
Hi,
This is happening way too frequently. Need to know how to disable it. OS X 10.9.5
Exact same thing here...
But where is the solution?
Did u solve it?
I'm using an Airport base station... and I have an iMac 2012 model, seamed ok in my laptop MacBook Pro 2011 this morning Australia time...
Constant popup "join Wifi-network"
