Blocked TinyURL
Pat
This is not just a Firefox problem, but Firefox is affected, as is
Internet Explorer, so I presume it's a Vista problem.
Until about 3 weeks ago, I could open TinyURL links without problems on
Firefox and Internet Explorer, and could get to the TinyURL website..
Now I can't open TinyURL links or the TinyURL.com website on either
browser. I get this error message from Vista instead:
"Connection Interrupted
"The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
"The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please
try again."
This happens only on TinyURL.com and TinyURL links that I click on. I
don't have Parental Controls activated, and am not sure where else to
look for something that would block access. I assume that there's a list
of blocked sites somewhere that I need to fix.
Suggestions?
Jay Garcia
--- Original Message ---
Nothing to do with Vista, the site is down.
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Stephen Lo
www.tinyurl.com is accessible, i opened it one minute ago at 10:40 11
Nov PST. The site might be blocked by your filrwall.
Good luck !!
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Stephen Lo, Vancouver, BC., CA.
Jay Garcia
--- Original Message ---
It was down when I posted it was down, not my firewall. It's up now.
Ron K.
Confirmed, this is not a Vista issue that might be caused by the MS
Defender or Firewall. Both are stock configurations with all updates.
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Ron K.
Who is General Failure, and why is he searching my HDD?
Kernel Restore reported Major Error used BSOD to msg the enemy!
Pat
And I still can't get to tinyurl.com. Drat. Same "Connection
Interrupted" error message. I haven't messed with MS Defender or
Firewall either. I have a new version of Trend Micro antivirus and
antispyware installed, which may or may not be an issue here.
Ron K.
First point, You must have only one firewall installed and active.
Secondly, many modern malware programs can interact with connections and
yeald results like a firewall block. So Yes, an investigation of the Trend
Micro program settings needs to be done.
David McRitchie
> Pat on 11/12/2008 9:29 AM, keyboarded a reply:
>> Ron K. wrote:
>>> Jay Garcia on 11/11/2008 1:47 PM, keyboarded a reply:
>>>> On 11.11.2008 12:42, Stephen Lo wrote:
I would add a third point as well.
The actually url rather than TinyULR would be a lot more helpful,
and then you are dependent only on the actual site working.
Jay Garcia
--- Original Message ---
The actual URL "is" www.tinyurl.com and not a tiny url created by
tinyurl. :-)
David McRitchie
> On 12.11.2008 15:51, David McRitchie wrote:
>> I would add a third point as well.
>> The actually url rather than TinyULR would be a lot more helpful,
>> and then you are dependent only on the actual site working.
>
> The actual URL "is" www.tinyurl.com and not a tiny url created by
> tinyurl. :-)
Okay, sorry, the poster is the victim of such links.
Pat
The only firewall on my laptop is Windows Firewall. I do have a
wireless/wired router, which is sometimes considered a firewall. Trend
Micro does not have a software router in this package.
> Secondly, many modern malware programs can interact with connections and
> yeald results like a firewall block. So Yes, an investigation of the
> Trend Micro program settings needs to be done.
>
I think I'll make a customer service call to Trend Micro tomorrow. They
just might be the problem.
Pat
I rolled back to a previous version of Trend Micro Antivirus (that
didn't have built in anti-spyware) to let me use third party
anti-spyware programs (Spybot and AdAware), and TinyURL now works just
fine. Thought this might help someone with a similar problem. I'll let
the Trend Micro tech know that this idea worked just fine.
Pixelita Designs
> David McRitchie wrote:
> > "Jay Garcia" ..
> >> On 12.11.2008 15:51, David McRitchie wrote:
> >>> I would add a third point as well.
> >>> The actually url rather than TinyULR would be a lot more helpful,
> >>> and then you are dependent only on the actual site working.
>
> >> tinyurl. :-)
I don't know if Trend behaves the way Zone Alarm Pro does with regard
to how it handles SPYWARE, but that had been happening to me on one
computer, on all browsers, Opera, FF and IE. It did NOT happen on my
Nokia Internet Tablet (which obviously isn't running Zone Alarm) nor
did it happen at the office.
I figured out that Zone Alarm Pro was viewing it as spyware and
actually had the URL blocked. When I unchecked that and checked
"allow" it was fine again.
Hope this helps.
Joni M.