PartTimeGenius

I have a desktop that has proven to be very reliable since I bought it. Because of all the harmful garbage on the internet, I installed a firewall, watch which sites I surf, and scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and Avast Antivirus on a regular basis. Despite these measures, every once in a while I encounter a few things on this forum that have me concerned.

Issue A: When I'm reading a multi-page thread and I go to the next page and find that all the quote boxes are blank.

Issue B: When I'm reading a multi-page thread and I go to the next page and find that the quote boxes have nothing but randomly scattered letters in them.

I've found that the problem occasionally goes away when I back out of the forum and come back to it, but I'm still curious why this happens and why only on this board.

TIA for all helpful replies

jmc12

Vette_DD

System is just a little slow right now for me, which is unusual.

Otherwise, it's you and/or your system.

I get on here 4 or 5 times a day, spread out from about 8 AM to midnight, EVERY DAY. I do use Firefox with a couple of add-ons. No problems.

What you really need to do is to post about this problem in the HELP forum. That's what it's there for, and JT is very good at helping folks with problems. This forum has about 200,000+ members and if it was the forum, more people would be posting about it.

Trapper Sean

Tangent: Are firewalls of any further value beyond the Windows firewall nowadays?

C5 Hardtop

Did you check the autoexec.bat?

Boomer111

No help here but my complaint usually is slow downloading but this is with the IPad, the main puter does just fine.

Using my outdated 5 IPhone is really tedious for this site.

C5 Hardtop

Yes, at the hardware level (router/cable modem).

CurtP

Router/cablemodem ≠ firewall. Home routers are nothing more than a NAT/PAT device and do not provide any sort of SPI/DPI functionality.

C5 Hardtop

I stand corrected. But the notion that additional firewall protection besides the Windows in-box firewall should be installed external to the computer and on a network device is still relevant.

Thunder22

What browser are you using?

nj02vette

OS version?
Browser and version?

Sounds more like a browswer issue than anything else.

CurtP

Absolutely. I just want people to be aware that their $69 device isn't providing firewall functionality. Unfortunately, there isn't an inexpensive firewall appliance for the masses. The one I'm running wasn't cheap and has a recurring annual subscription

J T

What are you using for a browser and what plugins do you have?

Although adding security software on top, generally, provides protection it doesn't always come without a cost - either in performance issues or features broken.

This is where I want to say "if I got a dime for everytime". And many of those times it's not just CorvetteForum or caused by CorvetteForum. No two websites are alike, even two vBulletin based forums aren't always alike, and with the amount of websites online, you're only visiting a tiny fraction of them.

I've not read any such issue as you described happening to another CorvetteForum member.