BS: New computer problem - anyone else?

Subject: BS: New computer problem - anyone else?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 28 Jun 09 - 06:18 PM

I've been trying to do some searches on Yahoo today. Everytime I click on a website, I get a page informing me that the site is not available, or in some cases, I get connected to a completely different and unrelated webpage. If I just type in the web address, I can get the connected with no problems. The websites exist, but I can't connect to them through yahoo. Has anyone else experienced this?

Subject: RE: BS: New computer problem - anyone else?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jun 09 - 07:05 PM

I get, "Ooops. This link appears broken." a lot. Click again and again... it comes up.

Subject: RE: BS: New computer problem - anyone else?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 28 Jun 09 - 07:05 PM

I can't speak to your particular problem, but I had been having troubles with Yahoo, and went to their homepage. I found that I had been, without request from me or notice to me, shifted to a different version of their software. All I had to do to clear up my troubles was to request changing back to the "traditional" program, and they went away. You might just look into that.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: New computer problem - anyone else?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Jun 09 - 05:03 PM

When I made my occasional check by googling "walkaboutsverse" today, I got a faulty-site message on my sitegoz (e-scroll) link, even though it worked okay in the address bar - I just rechecked and the message has gone..?

Subject: RE: BS: New computer problem - anyone else?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 29 Jun 09 - 05:51 PM

The problem seems to have cleared up last night. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: New computer problem - anyone else?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jun 09 - 10:07 PM

Reboot modem.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: New computer problem - anyone else?
From: robomatic
Date: 30 Jun 09 - 01:33 PM

I've had exactly the same thing going on. I put it down to malware even though my malware seeker says it ain't so.

Subject: RE: BS: New computer problem - anyone else?
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Jun 09 - 01:45 PM

Dave has a good point re: Yahoo and also I would flush the memory and do a cold reboot of the modem and computer.   See what happens then.

WavyFWBR up there still has a problem. The real error is when any of his sites DO come up!


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: New computer problem - anyone else?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Jun 09 - 03:55 PM

If you've recently downloaded and installed Internet Explorer 8, that thing is nosy and ponderous and hangs all of the time. I get that error message regularly when I use it. I do use it still for a few things (some security pages will only load via IE), but I switched over to use Firefox most of the time.

My next door neighbor inquired about a company to come out to fix her computer. I told her not to waste her money paying someone and headed over to help (I've worked on it before, and I think she feels guilty because it always takes a while. But what are neighbors for?). I started by rebooting her modem and router, then turned to check the machine. I finally got IE to run enough to download Firefox and install it. I then showed her the difference between the two. She thought her Internet provider was acting up, or her computer was dying, and it was just IE8 being a pain in the butt.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: New computer problem - anyone else?
From: Amos
Date: 30 Jun 09 - 04:09 PM

Yahoo has retired one of its primary nodes in the recent past, I forget which one. If all your problems are with Yahoo links you might have to re-find them.


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