I keep getting the message:

Stop running this script?

A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slow. If it continues your computer may become unresponsive. Stop running this script now?

I get this on every page I go to on this site. Anything I can do?

Firefox is considered the best browser for this site. Download and try it and see if it doesn't help.

My guess is that your computer is infected.

You may want to read this:

http://www.technibble.com/how-to-stop-internet-explorer-script-error-messages/

Other suggestion is to download, they are safe I can guaranty it to you as I have them on my computer, however always download say to desktop, check with your antivirus and malware software before opening, just a precaution:

1. Antivirus:

http://www.download.com/Avira-AntiVir-Personal-Free-Antivirus/3000-2239_4-10322935.html

2.Malware software:

http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

And let us know on how you make out.

Internet Explorer is so slooooooooooooooooooooooooow. And it doesn't work very well with this site. As mentioned, try Firefox. With plugins like AdBlocker and FlashBlock, you never have to look at any ads or anything while you're browsing (including on this site). It's great.

I have read this comment so many times here on chess.com, even from Erik, and it still does not register with me as I am using it and never, not seldom or occasionnally, but never had a problem.

What i believe is that people have computers that are not either tweaked right or does not have twice the specs requirements of a system.

I also have firefox, which I use occasionnally, but it does have drawbacks when I go to chess.com, so I do not use it for chess.com, it works fine but cannot do what IE7 does.

Swept my computer for malware with adaware. Seems to have cured the problem... Thanks!

I'm having the same problem than e4forme. I checked your link and i already did what they said. It's not working. I think there's something mis-coded behind chess.com.

I also tryed firefox but i'm getting an infinite loophole from rubicon something. I'm also pretty confident that i don't have any malwares/virus, everything else is going fine and smoothly.

I guess i'll try a third browser like opera to see what happens.

I'm pretty sure it's caused by an advertisement script that tries to contact it's host (rubiconproject.com or something) which won't respond. It continues indefinitely and doesn't stop. If you use something like Firefox or Opera you can get it to stop. Use AdBlock+ or NoScript with Firefox. Opera should work automatically. There are other postings on this problem, which I could not find in the little time I looked.

Edit: Found one: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/help-support/site-being-slow

IE sucks for these reasons:

It's the most common browser used, therefore hackers tend to target IE because there is a higher chance of success.

IE sucks on the Acid 3 test, scoring only 21 (IE8 beta 2 was used). Firefox= 71. Chrome received a similar result. It even fails on Acid 2 (most browsers pass Acid 2 by now)! (Acid tests are used to gauge how well web browsers can handle web elements like Javascript, DOM, etc.)

Internet Explorer is a closed-source program. This means that all the code used by IE is only available to Microsoft and for no-one else. Firefox is an open-source program. This means that anyone can look into the code and find any flaws in the design. Mozilla can then rewrite it and distribute as an update quickly and effectively. 

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/01/internet_explorer_unsafe_for_2.html

There are TONS of addons for Firefox. Not for IE. You also have to suffer from ads. Adblock Plus and No Script are available on Firefox and kill all ads on any website. Both addons are not available for IE.

Back to the topic:

On every page of this site?! I only get it occasionally. It's highly unlikely for a virus to do this stuff. Malware authors would be more interested in destroying your machine or taking all the cash from your bank account than displaying some message. Try using Firefox or Chrome and see what happens.

a third-party ad-server was having some problems. i have disabled it. please let me know if you are still having issues!

 You are luchy as Adware is not as good as :http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

My suggestion is that you run this software and see what else it can find and it is free.

 Unless you are an expert in trouble shooting, I suggest from making such comments as you are misleading everyone.

Proof by the forum poster by e4forme:

Swept my computer for malware with adaware. Seems to have cured the problem... Thanks!

In order of point:

1. As I mentioned in another thread, find me 20 sites using IE vulnerabilities to attack users. Of course the statement is true, it's just that the threat isn't as big as it was. Getting your PC taken over because of a hole in IE7 is pretty unlikely really (easy example from that other post, the latest "big" hole in it was believed to be used on about 10,000 sites, google chess and look at how many sites there are).

2. As you already mentioned it's the most common browser, and in general a lot of smaller sites are coded specifically for it, the Acid tests are just standards compliance tests and a hell of a lot of coders out there deliberately break the standards when writing a site (a large reason for that is IE). I'd also like to point out that I just ran Acid3 in Opera 9.51 and it got 84%, so really, I don't care.

3. That's because it's a commercial entity. Face it, MS has a huge number of very skilled developers working on all their products (probably more skilled than a large chunk of the OS community) and they're never going to embrace open source. Also (while I do actually like the concept of open source, I don't neccessarily think there are overt benefits to either approach) it could be argued that malicious individuals might be able to find bugs in the source and exploit them before a fix is found.

4. See point 1

5. Firefox addons are, in the majority, written by amateur developers and, as such, contain a slew of memory leaks and CPU hungry methods. About 10 months ago there was a story about a site which actively blocked all users of Firefox because of the use of AdBlock. The problem is, that if all users blocked ads, a lot of smaller sites would end up not making enough to keep the site running, just something to think about.

6. Malware on the whole is shoddy (a good thing because it tends to break before it can do anything really bad), so it's perfectly likely to assume that it could cause scripting erros if it was hooked into IE.

7. Don't bother with Chrome, it's too early in development to be a useful browser, it was overhyped at launch by a Google-salivating media, and really isn't that special compared to other browsers. Yes, try FF3, but even better, try Opera. If you want to look at things like the Acid test it performs fantastically in it, it's one of the fastest browsers out there, and it comes bundled with features that you have to download plugins for in FF such as voice control, mouse gestures (my most used feature), and the ridiculous number of ways you can do things quickly (e.g. to search on google I can either open it up and search for something in the main box, or I can search in the search box, or I can just type in "g" followed by my search in the address bar, or to open up chess.com, I have it set as one of my dashboard sites [1 of 9 sites that appears whenever you open a new tab] so I can either press Ctrl+1, or just type 1 into the address bar, or click on the mini-image on a new tab).

I don't know about everybody else' problems... But mine was caused by Malware! A simple sweep with adaware did cure it.