Anybody else getting a weird pop-up asking to validate?

Yep

here too.

where? On this site?

Yes, on this site. It's asking me for my login information in a suspicious pop up - even though I'm logged in. I've canceled through it every time...but it is suspicious. I haven't seen it today, though.

Dazz posted this yesterday on the F16 forum. It may be in regards to an avatar.

"yep, was getting it yesterday.

its the avatar. when i look at round island post by Blade1 it links to http://www.catsailor.com/bb_files/8157.jpg which needs a user/pass to access."

Follow up: it looks like Blade1 doesn't have an avatar (anymore?) and going into the Round the Island threads do not initiate the pop up.

Right now (8:15 P.M. 7/14) it is popping up on the Reynolds 21 vs Stiletto 23 thread.

i got it on the blade1 link ( http://www.catsailor.com/bb_files/8157.jpg whi)

it was asking for a server port access (80)

I got it when I just came to the forum. Didn't trust it cause its new, and so far I still don't until someone says its OK.

Now, I'm extremely suspecious! I clicked on a post in the Hobie Forum, and the pop-up asked me to log in.--BUT, I'm already logged in! DANGER, DANGER, Will Robinson!

it's an anomaly or "hickup" in the matrix

Someone messed up a directory permission on the server and made it HTML authenticated.

I took the red pill

lol