Hi James and Clarence Thank you both for your suggestions. I will start by uninstalling Zone Alarm, but as I know so many people are using it without problems ( and it is considered the most effective of Desktop Firewalls) I will probably reinstall it and keep trying to solve the problem. I suspect my browser needs to be reconfigured. Greetings Elisabeth www.freelists.org/webpage/triadtechtalk UNSUBSCRIBE by sending email to triadtechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the Subject field. To VIEW/CHANGE your subscription status go to //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi