Where is the debugger or host application running?

• Localhost
• Other Machine

Enter IP Address: _________________________

Are you experiencing this pop up every time you open a website that has a Flash banner, or Flash movie of some type playing? Surely, you have tried to click on Localhost … only to see the popup reappear again. You can enter an IP address in the text input box, but the popup still reappears again. Then after a couple attempts and you select to not connect or ignore, the popup goes away … until the next page you open with another Flash movie playing.

So, why is this happening? It could be a couple reasons. You may not have downloaded and successfully installed the Adobe Flash Player 9, or it may have been a corrupt install. I have Firefox, IE, Chrome and Safari browsers installed and dealt with this perplexing and persistent problem until I went back to the Adobe site and downloaded and installed the browser-specific Adobe Flash Player 9 plugins.

The Plugin that addresses IE browsers and Active X can be downloaded here.

For Firefox and the Netscape/Mozilla flavored browsers you can download the Plugin here.

Not long back I wrote a couple posts about SPAM and then started getting more SPAM. I did not have the Askiment plug in installed at that time. The reason I had not installed the plug in was because I did not have a Wordpress API key. I would have already given the Askimet plug in a try, except when I had gone to their site I thought it was only for Wordpress sites that were hosted by Wordpress.com.

I contacted the people at Askimet and found out that all I needed to do was setup an account at Wordpress.com in order to get the API key. It was not required that my Wordpress blog be hosted there, only that I opened a user account. How easy was that? Very easy. Since, I installed the Askimet plug in I have not received any more spam because the plug in works. It has blocked all of them so far.

So if you have a Wordpress blog that is self hosted and you are receiving spam, or want to insure that you do not get a bunch of spam posts, then hopefully the clarification in this post will allow you to get the protection now, rather than thinking it was not available to you.

Happy blogging