Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-957747-20180605195901/@comment-3403151-20180605232125

Kirkburn wrote: There may be other causes, It seems unlikely to me that would simultaneously be identical issues with different causes.

It is much more likely that there is a single - as yet unknown to you - cause, to do with which Kaspersky is a merely a catalyst which is triggering the issue for some.

The most interesting part of this issue to me is that the only happens to me while not logged in as 452, but does happens for me as 452 only on pages where my javascript is disabled, such as my global.js page.

This tells me that it's likely to do with your tracking methods, which my javascript sidesteps, but which my adblock simply blocks. This also makes the Kaspersky trigger makes sense: because Kaspersky likely detects your tracking as malicious, as it rightly should.

In case anyone in unaware, some months ago Wikia decided that when you press the submit button, before it would actually save the page, it would first contact their tracking server and log the fact that you're pressing the submit button. It used to be that if you blocked access to the tracking server, it would just hang for 10 seconds before timing out and submitting the page, but apparently now it just hangs.

I could be wrong, but this certainly smells likely to me.