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    How do I disable ad blocker in Chrome & Firefox?

    Thanks Dougie, I appreciate your prompt reply.
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    How do I disable ad blocker in Chrome & Firefox?

    Not sure if this is the best place to post this. But here goes... I get this notification (Please disable your adblocker) more and more these days from important marketing sites that I need for my business, I attempted to do this in chrome, but it didn't work. It's also impossible to find...
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    Solved Cannot access URL connections, mainly from typing in links and emails!

    Gentlemen, it seems you have cracked it. Rusty's suggestion on a reset I think did the trick! It didn't work 100% at first, a bt intermittent, but today it appears to be 100% OK. Thanks to all for helping me out.
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    Solved Cannot access URL connections, mainly from typing in links and emails!

    Did a reset as you suggest, but problem still persists unfortunately.
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    Solved Cannot access URL connections, mainly from typing in links and emails!

    Yes I have Acrobat Reader DC intalled.
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    Solved Cannot access URL connections, mainly from typing in links and emails!

    The OS is Windows 10. AV software is Kaspersky. Yes I have connected the laptop directly to modem and rebooted, but it made no difference. The email I mainly use is Outlook. When I use GoogleMail, I don't have these issues! On my other laptop, I don't have Microsoft Office installed as I hate...
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    Solved Cannot access URL connections, mainly from typing in links and emails!

    I am having problems when I type in a URL top of my 3 browsers. It’s just not connecting through. This occurs on all 3 browsers (FF, Chrome, Bing) Checking Speed-test shows: response time 181ms (Latency) 38 Mbps Download and Upload 9.5. Internet is live. (https://broadbandtest.which.co.uk/) I...
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    Hard Drive Data Recovery Question

    Thanks to Gus i have ordered one of hese HDD docks from Amazon. I will post more after I have put it to the test.
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    Hard Drive Data Recovery Question

    Thanks very muchfor that Gus
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    Hard Drive Data Recovery Question

    I have an ACER Aspire 7741 series (2011) Windows 7 Laptop and something heavy dropped on to the keyboard. Since then the data on the hard drive is very slow to load and sometimes doesn't even load at all, it struggles. The desktop icons all appear when I power on so I thought the hard Drive must...
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    My Facebook friends advise me they re recieveing PORN Videos from me!! HEEEELP please?

    I have since changed my FB password. I have checked scan results from Malwarebytes & Zemana and everything looks to be in order. However yesterday, I did get these. PUP.Optional.ASK - 6 Adware.Elex.ShrtCln - 3 I scanned again, restarted the machine and they haven't come back. I will keep...
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    Anyone use a virtual private network (VPN) on their computer?

    I have used ExpressVPN infrequently.
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    My Facebook friends advise me they re recieveing PORN Videos from me!! HEEEELP please?

    Not sure if I'm posting this in the correct section. Anyway, in the last 30mins or so, I have been advised that my friends & family are receiveing horrible porn emails sent by me. I don't use FB that much as I'm not much of a social animal. How can I stop this? I have good mind to shut down FB...
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    Solved Malwarebytes stopped working suddenly. Their Chameleon system unable to fix!

    Thanks very much, I actually do feel cleansed. I will get the Zemana premium after the free trial through your link. Many many thanks Peter Rose Manchester UK (Famous for rain and Manchester United)