Christina Sng retired after a long and illustrious career as a web developer, information architect, site producer, and usability consultant. Retirement, however, is boring! Join her here on her continuing adventures on the web.
After persisting another day, I eliminated the final possibility. I read this forum post about the Hostage of Comodo Firewall Pro and knew this must be it! Firewall conflict - that’s what the nice Blizzard lady Leah wrote and told me. So here’s what I did.
In Vista (yes, still using that confounded thing), under Services, [...]
It is now day 2 and I have solved the “Tracker not responding” problem. Turns out WoW doesn’t like Comodo Firewall such that even turning it off doesn’t work. When I finally threw in the towel and uninstalled it, the Launcher worked and downloaded the latest patch.
Now when I restarted it, the News page refused [...]
Truly, there is no such thing as an absolutely safe place, whether online or in real life. Just as a determined and skilled burglar can break into any residence possible, so can the most protected site be hacked, given enough time and resources. For every secure system out there, there’s a bunch of talented and [...]
Although this is apparently already fixed, it is worth being extra cautious when visiting any link. It may be redirected without your knowledge.
Read Gaping Internet security hole discovered
The gaping security hole enables a scam that targets ordinary people typing in a legitimate Web address. It happens because hackers are now able to manipulate the machines [...]
