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GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 29 Sep 2012 01:10

"To help protect your security, Internet Explorer blocked this site from downloading files to your computer"

Why have I suddenly got this message appearing just on this site tonight ?

Been using Ancestry, FMP etc and not got that message.

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 29 Sep 2012 01:19

Just done it again on Find Ancestors Board when adding a reply to a thread

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 29 Sep 2012 01:29

Getting fed up with this now.

Just changing boards brings up that message.

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

Barry_

Barry_ Report 29 Sep 2012 01:41

GB, I'd like to suggest that you switch your computer off completely, leave it for about 10 seconds for the drive to wind down, and then start it again. It seems as if the fault is possibly with your computer rather than a site.

It's possible also that your system might be short of a MicroSoft update, too. These things come left, right, and centre. They are a real pain, in my opinion. Far too many of them.

Do you run ccleaner.com to rid your hard drive of rubbish? This helps to reduce the waste. A defrag of the hard drive is helpful every so often, too.

Good luck.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 29 Sep 2012 01:56

Thanks Barry

About to switch off anyway as past my bedtime :-D

So will see how it works tomorrow after a defrag.

Night

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 29 Sep 2012 07:40

The message is appearing as a result of your IE security settings, it could be that they are set too high. The default setting of Medium High is appropriate for Internet. Setting it higher is likely to trigger cause the message you mention to appear.

Go to Tools, Security to check your current settings. I would suggest you set them to default and see if that makes a difference.

Incidentally, a defrag will only help your disk drive to access its files more quickly, and that is assuming the are fragmented in the first place - it will not make the slightest difference to the problem you have highlighted.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 29 Sep 2012 12:03

My security setting is Medium to High which has not changed.

This problem only started after about 2 hours of using this site and was not appearing on any other site.

Seems alright so far this morning so fingers crossed.

Thanks.

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 29 Sep 2012 12:28

Oh bother

Just had "a problem with webpage has caused IE to close tab" while using GR.

Closed everything down and came back and straight away got "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer blocked this site from downloading files to your computer"

Any ideas on this one.

Thanks.

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

Ron2

Ron2 Report 29 Sep 2012 20:12

Run a security scan - just in case. It's possibly caused by some adverts on here tho.

Wot version of IE are you using?

Someone else raised point about Windows updates - is your Op system up to date? Windows 7 downloaded a security update couple of nights ago

Researching:
Stuarts - Birmingham, Staffordshire. Beats Notts and Lincs

Kay????

Kay???? Report 29 Sep 2012 21:49

GB its a conflict with this site,,,,,,,

Mine keeps freezing took PC into shop but its all ok, I struck up GR in their workshop and ------yep it froze,,,,,,,,,they said it could be one of their ads or a glitch on a server they are using....but no other site is acting up.

GR will of course put it down to anything but here.....

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 29 Sep 2012 22:06

Thanks Ronald and Kay

Currently using Windows XP and IE8

No problems with other sites - Ancestry, FMP, SP etc are all working okay.

Will not bother to contact GR as you get the same answer everytime and they do not bother to read the message anyway.

See what happens over the next few days.

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 1 Oct 2012 01:22

Anyone got any ideas as it has just happened again and only on this site.

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 1 Oct 2012 12:21

Given in and sent the support team a link to this thread but do not hold out any hope for a decent reply.

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 1 Oct 2012 12:24

Where is "Judy in the States", when you need her?

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 1 Oct 2012 12:27

I wish Judy was still around as her help was great.

Just wait and see if I get any reply from the Team but not going to hold my breath

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

Ron2

Ron2 Report 1 Oct 2012 19:54

For first time I keep getting a yellow box at bottom of page stating "Do you want to open or save jload.js from pixel.adsafeprotected.com?" Any one any ideas? My Kaspersky AV not reported owt funny but I never download stuff like this

Researching:
Stuarts - Birmingham, Staffordshire. Beats Notts and Lincs

Rambling

Rambling Report 1 Oct 2012 20:00

GlitterBaby mine is doing it this evening also, it was a problem a few weeks back and then stopped. I am 99.9% certain it is down to the adverts, because when it happens the advert does not show.

Researching:

jax

jax Report 1 Oct 2012 20:02

Ronald

I have been getting the same thing normally very late at night but tonight it started happening an hour or so ago.

Anyway I got fed up with it and signed out of uk and signed back into .co.za instead and touch wood it has stopped

Researching:
Nothing much

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 1 Oct 2012 22:40

As I thought a complete waste of time sending a message to the Support Team.

Got the usual reply as to what operating system and browser am I using and when does the problem occur. They obviously did not read this thread although I sent them the link.

I hope it is not the adverts again as they were a problem many months ago.

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

jax

jax Report 1 Oct 2012 22:48

I'm not messing with my browser for anyone IE9 and windows 7

But if it is anything like what Ronald mentioned...since changing from .co.uk to .co.za ....mine has been fine where as I was getting this message almost every time I switched from board to board

Researching:
Nothing much

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