Web Filters Suck

Having problems reaching certain sites on my home computer since spring, no rhyme or reason. Why can't I get Poughkeepsie Journal's web site any more? Some booze sites I don't get anymore, some still do. Don't ask, don't tell. Welcome back.

Good to see you hydra. I was wondering what happened to you.

yes definatley, welcome back Hydra!

Bloof, I had that problem with secure info sites. Not much you can do I'm afraid but wipe your hard drive. Its a good practice anyway.

iminaquagmire said:

Bloof, I had that problem with secure info sites. Not much you can do I'm afraid but wipe your hard drive. Its a good practice anyway.

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lol.

Try to run Windows Update if using that OS. Download the FireFox browser, and never turn back to Internet Explorer. Might run AdAware and sweep the drive. Usually fixes that problem. IE is a POS, its insecure, slow, and full of bugs. FireFox is a much better brower, faster, and has tabbed browsing which kicks.

If you keep your box clean, you should never ever have to wipe your HD. Stay off of pr0n sites, and for the most part, you shouldnt have problems with spyware/adware that end up royaly screwing you where guys arent supposed to be screwed.

I use WU every week along with an antivirus scan, adware scan, and drive scrubber. The real problem is is that websites and programs now imbed files so far into your hard drive and the programs that are out there to control them aren't sophisticated enough to safely traverse all of the directories so they don't do it.

Firefox is just a dumbed down version of IE. It polices so much that it actually sometimes does what is occuring to Bloof.

Dumbed down? Thats funny, considering MS is taking every single feature that FF has and is adding it to IE7 when that gets released....

If dumbed down means that it follows all HTML rules for compiling, and doesnt require you to work around bugs, and making development much easier, as well as being 110% more secure, Ill still take it. Ive been web programming since the 7th grade....FF is NOT a dumbed down version of IE. They dont even operate on the same level. MS has slowed the development of HTML and other web protocols for ages now because of IE and its 'special compilers'. I have countless books from MS for programming for IE, and I constantly have to reference to them due to some stupid bug that they didnt bother to fix. IE is a POS, and is a giant gaping security hole into your computer, as well as Windows Media Player. Ive been using FF since the day that the first beta was publicly released, and I have yet to encounter a single problem with 'policing.'

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I prefer FF over IE by a LOOOOOOOONG measure. More stable, uses less of my precious resources, tabbing rules, malicious pop ups are gone, etc.

Big Paintbrush said:

I prefer FF over IE by a LOOOOOOOONG measure. More stable, uses less of my precious resources, tabbing rules, malicious pop ups are gone, etc.

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Exactly!

One bug-a-boo about FF. In my experience, it can sometimes "hang-up" when loading a page and then time-out quicker than IE. Small price to pay tho.

Big Paintbrush said:

One bug-a-boo about FF. In my experience, it can sometimes "hang-up" when loading a page and then time-out quicker than IE. Small price to pay tho.

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Ahh yes, thats true. Rarely happens to me. IIRC, the only website I ever have trouble with that is http://www.theinquierer.net(IT News/Rumors).

Only plugin that I cant seem to get to work with FF is the QT plugin...And in those cases, I just pop open IE.

Capt said:

:duh: :dunno:

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+1

I wasn't referring to it being less sophisticated because its not. I meant that it seems to be geared to people not familiar with the internet. Maybe I had an earlier version of it--I don't know. All I know is that I no longer use it because it caused more problems than it fixed. For instance I couldn't log on to secure sites.

There were some problems earlier with some of the beta's that didnt like some SSL/HTTPS websites. Give it a try out, Im sure you will be pleased, much moreso than with IE in its current state.

IIRC, FF was bred off of mozilla, which was designed as an open source browser for Linux/Unix based OS's. Mozilla was geared big time towards n00bs when it was first released...very similar to AOL's browswer at the time. FF has leaned up big time.

ff is far superior to ie, i would have never beleived it if it hadnt happend to my own computer but just from surfing some sites, i got stuff installed on my computer without saying yes to the security warnings. now that i use firefox i dont get any of that stuff.