Constant popup "join Wifi-network"

Not just UK users, this appears to be global.

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.

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! 🙂

Seems to be solved on Apple's side.

No popups here anymore

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.

Same here. All's back to normal.

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

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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 😀

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.)

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