WTF Xp vs. OTC and I'm losing

[MrBishop]

I've just upgraded my XP..via the web-site and now whenever I go to OTC, I've got missing icons, missing smilies, sometimes, I can't post...sometimes, I can't reply to PMs.

I've attached a sreenshot.
Anyone know anything about this?

 

[HomeLAN]

Does it show any pictures at all?

 

[MrBishop]

Does it show any pictures at all?

Sometimes avatars...sometimes, some of the smilies are there.

Screenshiotting another example

 

[MrBishop]

This was the reply screen that I got back to after I posted...before, your avatar was visible..as was mine.

 

[MrBishop]

OK...NOw I know that I'm going nuts. I added OTC to the 'good guys sites' for my symantec firewall and it's working all nice again.

WTF? It wasn't bothering me before..why now?

 

[HomeLAN]

Who knows. Norton is a tool of the devil. Not the first time I've seen it screw with VB images. One of the shared DLL's probably got overwritten on your Windows update, and the setting wasn't playing nice.

 

[samcurry]

damn norton..... but i have to use it. corp thing.

 

[MrBishop]

damn norton..... but i have to use it. corp thing.

Preferable to McAfee any day, any way.

I get about 30-50 attacks on my system blocked by my firewall daily. I NEED it!
Got rid of the Norton AV though...replaced it with AVG and picked up Spybot as well. They work well enough.

Got any recommendations for a freeware/shareware firewall that won't fuck up my system?

 

[samcurry]

i like tiny personal firewall personally.

 

[Inkara1]

I've been having the same thing happen ever since I upgraded my version of IE to the latest version with the various little "improvements." It's never had trouble loading avatars, but icons pretty frequently show up with a red X. There are a few other sites it happens at. I don't have a firewall.

 

[MrBishop]

I've been having the same thing happen ever since I upgraded my version of IE to the latest version with the various little "improvements." It's never had trouble loading avatars, but icons pretty frequently show up with a red X. There are a few other sites it happens at. I don't have a firewall.

Doesn't XP/IE have it's own firewall of sorts?

BTW..thanks for the help Sam...I'll try that firewall out

 

[HomeLAN]

Doesn't XP/IE have it's own firewall of sorts?

BTW..thanks for the help Sam...I'll try that firewall out

I know a couple people who swear by Sygate.

Personally, I run Zonealarm, but I'm also behind a hardware firewall in the router.

 

[Sharky]

What is "Black Ice"? Is it a firewall? Is it any good? I think that's what our company uses.

 

[staffrodore]

I used to use Zonealarm but had nothing but problems with it. I now use Sygate, far better,, though at times still use none bar the XP firewall.

 

[Sharky]

OK, I got off my butt and Googled it . . . Black Ice

 

[staffrodore]

great, I still however wouldn't touch it with a stolen penis on the end of a twenty foot barge pole.

 

[Sharky]

great, I still however wouldn't touch it with a stolen penis on the end of a twenty foot barge pole.

Why not?

 

[Inkara1]

Doesn't XP/IE have it's own firewall of sorts?

I'm running Windows 2000, though. No firewall there.

 

[catocom]

I know a couple people who swear by Sygate.

mark one down here, of coarse I only have one machine with xp at the moment,
and it's not my main machine.
I haven't really even done much on the xp machine either.
I haven't had any problems with folding on it though.