Why am I losing web access?

[Drover]

Originally Posted by Brian.Pearson

Try disabling the Google toolbar.

The problem occurs on browsers that don't even have Google Toolbar installed so I think we can safely rule it out as the culprit.

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

Uninstall it, then reinstall it without the link scanner installed. I believe there's a box you can uncheck if you do a custom install. Be sure to go into the Firefox add-ons and remove it. I also don't like the AVG toolbar since I don't see the point in pretty much any toolbar.

Speaking of which, further research has uncovered that the link scanner is a common source of the issue I started this thread about. So I uninstalled it and reinstalled it without the linkscanner. We'll see how it goes.

[mensaguy]

Uninstall all toolbars. Most of them install with the popup blocker turned on. The browsers also install with the popup blocker turned on. This conflict causes strange lockups to occur when surfing.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by mensaguy

Uninstall all toolbars. Most of them install with the popup blocker turned on. The browsers also install with the popup blocker turned on. This conflict causes strange lockups to occur when surfing.

Again -- this problem is occurring on browsers that have no toolbars installed. Toolbars is not the problem.

[Brian.Pearson]

Possible windsock corruption?

[Drover]

Well, I did two things: one, I got rid of linkscanner on AVG. That appears to have resolved the issue of losing web access. But I still had problems with Netscape hanging and leaving an interminable process even after being shut down, so I went in and deleted the lock file, and that appears to have resolved that issue.