Quote Originally Posted by sidhewolf View Post
First to address the problems You've mentioned with Your computers. Partner here says it sounds like a virus or an operating system problem on both issues. With the computers networked a virus can spread to each through the network. That happened here to us once when his sister and Family were staying with us and we had 4 computers networked. Sisters children played on one of them unsupervised, and picked up a virus. We couldn't get into the Help and Support when that happened. It was quite a fiasco <UGH>.
Yeah, that was my first thought. But I only have the Help Center problem on one computer, not all of them. And some sites still allow me to update my accounts in Quicken with IE. I'm using the latest Norton on my primary computer and the free AV system on the other two. I keep everything updated regularly as well as running SpyBot and AdAware regularly. I don't really do any risky surfing, either, staying away from peer2peer networks and the like. While a virus is definitely a possibility, I believe I've done all that I can to eliminate the likelihood.

Here, a friend told me to download Opera, and after doing so and logging on here and Trying to go to chat, Opera noted a problem. Interesting, because so did Netscape when I tried that yesterday, BUT when going through Neyscape, while it ID'd I had a problem, it told me there was no fix for it. Opera told me there was a problem AND fixed it. Opera told me to download firefox, I did so, and Wella <G>, I'm able to get back on chat here Both in Netscape and Opera. AND neither shows the big red bullseye of a Restricted site. BUT IE still shows the bullseye AND won't let me into chat. So I won't be utilizing IE for The Library. I still don't know Why this suddenly happened on IE though.
I've heard of Opera but never tried it. Maybe I should. I mostly use Firefox for routine stuff, using IE for some things which I feel pretty sure are safe. My wife uses IE because she's familiar with it but she does less risky stuff than I do and is seldom on line anyway. One nice thing I've found for Firefox is and Addon called "No Script" which allows me to keep Java scripting turned off except for selected sites. That plus not allowing cookies except for selected sites makes me feel much safer.

I'm glad you've solved your problem. Personally I think the biggest problem is in IE and Windows. I swear, next time I'm going to try a Mac. Enjoy your chats. Maybe I'll see your there sometime.