WinRAR download when navigating this sight?

[A'rytiss Edar]

So, between this sight and the Wiki, I'm having a strange issue.

 

Whenever I'm navigating the website, I get constant downloads of various different WinRAR's. For example, when creating this thread, it attempted to download 'newthread.gz'

 

While navigating the wiki, it constantly attempts to download 'Index.gz' 

 

None of these have viruses, but having to cancel each time I want to move pages is getting personally frustrating. 

 

I'm running Google Chrome, and I have basic anti-virus/anti-spyware running on my PC. No other sight gives me this issue.

[Faye]

A'rytissssssss. That's strange I'm running Google Chrome as well and I've never had that happen before.

[Gharen]

Hrmm.. I can't say I've seen this myself, I would look into a couple of possibilities. A corrupt browser profile could very well cause something like this.

 

One thing you can try do to check this is attempt to access the site via other browsers Firefox, Explorer. IF you still have issues then it's potentially not a chrome issue, that being the case I'd recommend Avast Antivirus' free DL.

 

http://download.cnet.com/Avast-Free-Antivirus-2014/3000-2239_4-10019223.html?part=dl-85737&subj=dl&tag=button

 

If the problem does not travel across browsers then you can attempt to repair Chrome in your add/remove programs. Or do a complete uninstall/reboot/reinstall. Chrome may even have a built in way to create a new user profile in the event of a corrupted one the same way Firefox does.

 

hope that helps.

[FreelanceWizard]

So, the ".gz" thing is a little weird, but also not entirely unsurprising. Let me explain. To keep our bandwidth usage down, improve site speed, and not torque off our hosting company for using too much transfer, I have gzip compression turned on for all of the pages on the site. So, the HTML that your computer would normally receive is gzipped up and sent over the wire with the header, "Content-Encoding: gzip". Your web browser is supposed to then unzip the content to display it. If your browser doesn't support compression, it's supposed to tell the web server this, and then it doesn't compress the content.

 

That it's not working suggests a few possibilities. Incorrectly configured proxy servers and web content filters can do things like claim they support compression when they don't, and thereby spit a ".gz" file at you when they see compressed content. A damaged web browser could also be misbehaving; you could try a different one or repair Chrome, as Gharen notes. Finally, there could be malware interfering with your Internet access. MalwareBytes Anti-Malware is another good option to clean stuff like that out.

 

A final possibility is that our hosting provider did something weird to our service, but I haven't gotten any change notifications and others aren't reporting this issue, so I'm a little doubtful of that.

[Kage]

I've run into this issue last week while on my work computer using internet explorer. Trying to do things in the Wiki I kept running into it while navigating or trying to edit my Wiki.

 

I haven't noticed it recently but it had happened to me as well.