I use the browser that Juno provides, verion 8.0 I think.
Kristine
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<dragonfly
...> wrote:
>
> Juno? I was going to suggest that you go to Trend Micro's web site
and
> scan with House Call but that will take forever on dial-up. Since
Yahoo
> mail works on computers with fresh installs of XP and other
versions of
> windows, I suspect that you either have a configuration issue or
malware.
>
> What browser are you using? Include the version.
>
> I use Firefox as my main browser. I keep it and IE7 in pretty basic
> mode. I keep the add-ons to a minimum. I know someone suggested
that you
> remove Firefox if you had it but that is the worst advice I've
heard so
> far. Internet explorer is the easiest browser to compromise.
>
> If you have IE7, do you have the phishing filter on? That causes
> problems with the Yahoo site.
>
> Dragonfly
>
>
> kristine.kadlec wrote:
> >
> > I'm at my wits end!!! I did everything that Yahoo suggested. I
went
> > into tools and checked the security settings and went into
advanced and
> > noticed that Java had a message saying (requires restart).
> >
> > Someone in this group suggested that I download the most current
> > version of Java which I did.
> >
> > I still cannot open my Yahoo email. I can delete email, I can spam
> > email and I can compose. When I try to open my new incoming mail
it
> > just stalls and seems to put my computer into a loop. Makes it
> > difficult to even close the browser. When I close my internet
session
> > and try to connect again, nothing happens. I restarted my
computer and
> > then was able to reconnect to the internet. (By the way, my ISP is
> > Juno and I have no problem opening that email.)
> >
> > I cannot afford to pay a computer repair guy $150.00 per hour. Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > Kristine
> >
> >
>
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