Don’t you hate it when you can’t see a website? I know it drove me crazy for a few days. Then I checked my security software settings.

I was trying to check a couple of websites recommended to me out, and couldn’t see them on one of my machines. Laptop was fine, but my desktop would just show a blank page. As the pirate who had a steering wheel attached to him said, “It was driving me nuts.” I knew it was something on the desktop that I had either installed for testing or had set wrong. Turns out I was half right.

I use Kaspersky Internet Security suite on my machines, love it and recommend it to people. Its technology has allowed me to watch it block drive-by download attempts. So I decided a long while ago to tighten the security down on my Desktop. It worked really well, but the banner ad blocker was the thing keeping me from a website run by a marketing company, which had an article I wanted to see. Once I went in and whitelisted the URL, it was fine, but man, what a way to find out something works, and works well.