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Amethyst

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  1. Ah, that would explain it. I figured it must be something these two browsers were doing differently. I had issues a while back with one particular website which seemed to introduce image corruption into the cache. I only accessed that website with Chrome, but when the images got corrupted in Chrome, they were also corrupted in Opera. I had to completely clear the cache in both browsers to get it fixed. If I only cleared the cache in one, it didn't help.
  2. Now it's working again in Opera. Seems to be an off and on thing, I'm just wondering why it affects the chrome based browsers and not Firefox.
  3. Hello, I've had this issue come up with this forum and with another message board I belong to. It happens occasionally and is affecting this forum right now. When I try to reach the website of this message board on my Opera and Chrome browsers, I get the message that the DNS address could not be found. Yet here I am, same computer, Firefox browser. Any idea why this might be happening?
  4. I just installed this browser on my current laptop. I haven't used Google Chrome for a long time, so I am getting reacquainted with it. The only extension I have purposely installed is WOT. Google Docs offline and others are there and enabled--Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slide. It looks like Chrome comes with them installed and enabled by default. HTH.
  5. I haven't read the article yet...but why on earth would Microsoft do that? That is absolutely insane!
  6. My Opera browser is blocking content on this page...seems to be in the original post.
  7. I'm getting an 'invalid certificate' warning when I go to that link with the Opera browser. Such an extension looks like an interesting idea, though.
  8. Great pictures, Ron. I wish our clouds had stayed a way just a bit longer. Oh well, hopefully the next one will be more visible.
  9. I watched the moon disappear, but cloud cover also arrived. By the time the eclipse was total, there was nothing visible. Could be a coincidence, but there was some disruption of our satellite TV service during the eclipse. The dish completely lost signal for a couple of minutes at a time. Siri (on my Apple devices) was also having trouble over my satellite internet connection during the eclipse, but I did manage to load web pages with no problem.
  10. I'm not trying to hijack this thread, but I looked up the three failed login attempts on my hotmail account at AbuseIPDB dot com. One of the failed attempts came from Microsoft! This website said the IP address I was checking was from a 'trusted hosting ISP' and could not be reported. That was the U.S. IP. I reported the 2 South American IP's, and I am the first person to do so. Hotmail doesn't seem to allow for reporting unless the hacker actually succeeds in logging in, then there is a 'not you?' button you can click in that case.
  11. I have a hotmail account that I use for message boards and such--an account I can delete if I need to. This thread got me checking, and I see that there have been three failed attempts to log into my hotmail e-mail account. One was from Venezuela, one from Argentina, and one from the west coast in the U.S. Like you, Fivealive, the ip addresses were listed but device and browser unknown. My laptop is trusted so it doesn't require the 2 step verification, but my other devices do. Quite troubling, really. I mean, the attempts were unsuccessful and my password is so random as to be very difficult, if not impossible, to guess. But still...I am really sick of all the cyber crime crap.
  12. The trip was awesome, truly a once in a lifetime thing. As for the peculiar behavior with the youtube video's, that's beyond me. The last video I posted was an 'official video', maybe those have some restrictions. Oh well, I guess I'll just let it open up a new browser page on the Youtube website when that happens.
  13. I'm getting a message that "This video contains content from Sony ATV Publishing. It is restricted from playback on certain sites. Watch on YouTube". This is on Windows 8 with Opera 19. On my iPad2 with Safari, I'm just getting the spinning wheel. The video embedded in post #981 works in my Opera browser on the Windows machine, though. MT's first video in post 990 plays on this page, but the second one gives me that same message I quoted. On the Windows 8, IE 10 doesn't even want to display the embedded videos unless I tell the page to 'display all content'. It then either plays the videos or just shows the spinning circle, same videos as the ones that won't play on my Opera browser. This looks like it is something within some video's . Firefox also wants to block the videos entirely as content that is not secure, and the same problematic videos behave the same way when I allow the page to load the embedded video's.
  14. DH uses FF on our Windows 8, and FF is the default browser there. I'm willing to see if the ads become obnoxious or not before we jump ship to another browser. (I use my iPad for most of my browsing these days, but I do have Opera set up to my liking on the Windows machine.).
  15. Merry Christmas! And Brian's article today was utterly jaw dropping. He has got to be annoying some very nasty people these days.
  16. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/whos-selling-credit-cards-from-target/Wow. Maybe all these Target threads can be combined?
  17. I've used debit cards since (amended to add) about the very late 80's. When we lived in the city, I carried around very little cash (as the functionality of debit cards improved), and I used the debit card for nearly everything and was happy for the convenience. (This was in Canada.) Since we've moved to the country, I had acquired a more 'bare bones' bank account that has a service charge for more than a certain set number of debit transactions, so I do use cash more nowadays. I could get cash back for using a credit card for everyday purchases, but in terms of financial management, I prefer debit. I have never, ever had any concern whatsoever about using a debit card. I think there have been breaches in this country in the past, but they didn't affect me so I didn't pay much attention. I can't say I recall hearing of any since Canada went to chip and PIN with all cards, both debit and credit. This time, we were in the U.S. and there was a Target store that we went to frequently. Through sheer luck (and a distaste for Black Friday crowds), it looks like we missed the window with this particular situation. However, just to be on the safe side, I've increased the monitoring on my card activity.
  18. My U.S. bank has a zero liability policy, just spoke with them about that on the phone. And yes, they are swamped with phone calls right now. I read Target's facebook page, and at least one person wrote in who had lost the contents of her bank account--money for bills, rent, groceries...gone. There are stories on Krebs about people going to that website (where the stolen numbers are being sold) to see if their card number is there and finding their own card number up for sale. Me, I wouldn't dare even visit that website. Just not worth the risk. If I were in the security business, I would get a great deal of satisfaction out of bringing down criminals like this.
  19. My U.S. bank would cover it, but I would have to report it promptly.
  20. Interesting follow up. I'm still seeking factual, non-dramatic information. This is pretty good. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/cards-stolen-in-target-breach-flood-underground-markets/ It would be nice if Target and the financial institutions would step up to the plate and provide the public with some facts so people aren't in such a panic about this. I feel sorry for people who applied for the Target red cards at the cash registers and who now don't know if their bank accounts are compromised. I don't see why Target can't provide a Q & A with at least that info. Every time we went there in the last couple of months, we were reminded that we could save 5% with the card and we always declined. We just used cash for about the last 2/3 of November and on. No reason, it just worked out that way, and now I'm glad we did. Someone said the website of the criminals selling the stolen numbers is now "under construction". Maybe they got hacked, would serve 'em right.
  21. IE 11...Ah, I got it done. (I mentioned that in another thread.) I ended up downloading it from the microsoft.go site. I haven't given it much of a try, as I don't use the netbook that often. When it does get used, I use Opera and DH uses Firefox. Now, back to the gentle updating of the Windows 8 laptop...
  22. Another couple of links: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/sources-target-investigating-data-breach/http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/sources-target-investigating-data-breach/#comments
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